Film & Video Kickstarter Projects That You Don’t Want To Miss

Set in a visually heightened land of peculiar characters, 'Lady' tells the story of a young girl who disguises herself as her recently deceased grandmother in order to avoid being sent into foster care.

She manages to fool the blind cross-dressing neighbour Clarence and tenacious social worker Laureen, but being an adult is harder than she first thought.

She is tired of being alone, and deeply misses Grandma. Inspired by the stories of heaven she been told throughout her life, Lady decides to take a giant leap of faith, and building a pair of mechanical wings, goes off to get her grandmother back.

This quirky dark tale explores how we discover our identity, cling on to familiarity, and interpret reality in a world where things are often not what they seem.

Ashland City, TN--Filmmaker Valerie Whitcomb started a Kickstarter campaign which is currently running December 17 through January 13, 2018 in promotion of her feature film, The Blueberry Farmer. The campaign already raised a quarter of its goal in the first 3 days and will be joining the 24k+ successful film campaigns already on the most popular crowdfunding platform.

According to Whitcomb, the documentary is about how an amazing man named Bernie Ellis saved his farm, saved his own life, and continues to fight for social justice and the legalization of medical cannabis to this day.

“This film is also about changing hearts and minds and changing the law. It is time to overturn the prohibition of a plant,”  Whitcomb states definitively.  “It is time to recognize the benefits of medical cannabis plants that can help a lot of people. The most powerful way to influence people is by actions and by telling stories. It is my hope that by telling Bernie’s story, it can add to this conversation and help bring change in our drug laws in this country.”

In a story well worthy of telling, beginning in a former moonshine holler in the hills of Tennessee, Bernie Ellis is whose story it really is.  A man once called by the Nashville press, “Tennessee’s favorite felon,” he has endeared himself to hundreds of people in his community over the years that have come to know his story and love him, the thread that goes through the story, from beginning to end.

Bernie was bush hogging a pasture in 2002 when he noticed a helicopter circling above him. When it lowered to just over the treetops in a tight circle, he knew his life was about to change forever. Trace View farm was raided by the police that day and about 7 pounds of usable plants were confiscated as evidence.  For almost 15 years, Bernie had been growing medical cannabis.  Besides using it himself for his own ailments, including a degenerative spine and fibromyalgia, he was providing it for free to terminal AIDS and cancer patients that he knew or were referred to him. This fact is due to an interesting twist in The Blueberry Farmer story.

After admitting that the cannabis plants were his, Bernie went from earning over $100,000 per year in his field to living on food stamps unable to find work due to his arrest record.  But instead of giving up, he reinvented himself as an organic blueberry farmer. As you enjoy a meal at many of Nashville’s fine dining establishments, Bernie’s blueberries will probably be on the dessert menu.

At this time, the priority is with seeking funding on the Kickstarter website where more information may be found at www.theblueberryfarmer.com

Hero. What does that mean? What do you think of when you hear it? The word hero takes on a whole different meaning when looked at in a different light. Heroes are the ones that sacrifice for our good without us sometimes even knowing it. Who expect nothing in return even though they give you everything.The story of "Hero" follows a girl named Grace. She lives with her dad and brother outside Nashville Tennessee. Her dad raises her and her brother, and teaches them many life lessons that would apply later in their lives. The story shows how important relationships are with your family, and that heroes don't always have to save the world. Sometimes, people are to quick to put a specific definition on the word, and the team at CITC Productions wants to put a different perspective on what a hero can be. We want to bring the story to life with stunning visuals, and engaging characters.

This project is a short film set in the near future. It follows a young girl who is being babysat by smart home computer operated AI. The AI will live on the walls of the home and guide the young girl through her day.

Five years after a tragic battle with leukemia, a woman’s will calls for two men who can’t stand one another, her beloved father and heartbroken husband, to put aside their differences and come together to ceremoniously spread her ashes at the sites of her favorite memories. Both hilarious and touching, “Ashes” is the story of the tumultuous and life altering journey the two men embark upon to fulfill her last wishes.

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Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic is the hit off-Broadway comedy that has been playing to sold out audiences in New York for over two years. The show was created by a group of friends on a shoestring budget at the Peoples Improv Theater. Since then, it has been seen by almost 30,000 people as it's continued its journey from the PIT, to the Elektra, and now to the esteemed New World Stages, also home to Avenue Q and Jersey Boys. Because the show was created by a group of Puffs ourselves, we are grateful the show has struck a chord with so many people.