The Story

The Ark is a darkly funny, sexy sci-fi drama about grief, love, and second chances. After losing his wife, a desperate widower enters a universe where she is still alive in hopes he can find out why she took her own life. When he arrives however, he finds a reason to give his own, and reunite this living version of his wife with his grieving daughter.

Why The Ark?

When I lost someone to suicide, The Ark was the film and story I didn't know I needed. It's about a multiversal con, carried out by a grieving, foul-mouthed widower, who hatches a plan to reunite his grieving daughter with her grieving mother.

But underneath it all, it's about a man finding meaning and heroism in his loss that he thought he didn't deserve.

Why A Comedy For Such Dark Subject Matter?

Grief taught me that when you talk about the one you've lost, conversations can't help but gravitate to the feeling you felt most when they were here. For our characters, the one they loss gave them joy, so they use humor, albeit dark, to process their complex feelings.

What Will Watching This Feel Like?

The Ark has the slick, charismatic, and sexy feel of films like THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, with the character-driven genre you find in INCEPTION.

Tonally, this film reflects both the desperate humor of grieving loved ones with the relationship-driven sci-fi that brings characters to confront emotions they didn't know they had.

Why Are There Only White People In The Above Pictures?

Because we need more movies like The Ark! Movies filled with beautiful, sexy, flawed, hurting, loving, funny, and dangerous Black and Brown characters, so the next generation of filmmakers have more references.

Where Does The $6200 Go, Mallom?

For The Ark, we've assembled a crew, a cast, and locations. All of whom we need to pay for their time! Luckily, I've found talented people willing to work for a discounted rate because they, like you, believe in this film being a reality, and have sacrificed to make it possible. Your money goes to help me support them for our shoot! Here's our budget broken down--

Camera Man Is The Best Man - 2,000

We will use $2,000 cover our Camera Team, their equipment rental & fees needed to shoot our project. For this film, I'm proud to say I'm reuniting with Isaac Bedford, the DP of my past film 2003. You can view the visual work we did on it here--

Lights Are Never Too Bright - $600

We will use $600 to cover our fees to light the film! We want to make sure to light our black and brown actress well for best visibility. For this film, we are working with ATL based lighting company - Mote Media Studios

Wait, What'd You Say? - $800

We will use $800 to cover our sound team, as well as their equipment rental fees. Sound is SO crucial to the filmmaking process, and it takes real professionals and great equipment to make sure our dialogue and sound FX come through great for our audience.

Bread For Our Thespians - $1,050

We will use $1050 to pay our cast! Paying our 4 actors allows them to dedicate even more time to perfecting their performance. With this amount, split amongst the 4 actors for a 2 day shoot, we allow them more bandwidth to do work for the film. Whether that's promote, rehearse, or attend creative development meetings. Our four cast members are;

Bryson Prince (top left), as Eric & E.B

Jailane Kendale (top right) as Jaguar

Yashashvi Choudhary (bottom left) as Denise

Soleyah Trinity (bottom right) as Grace

Food & Good Moods - $500

We will use $500 to cover our food, snacks, and coffee cost for our entire shoot! Our days will be long, some crew members will work 12 hour days. This amount keeps our 12-15 person crew on set fueled and ready to go for 2 days of work.

AD Fees - $400

We will use $400 to cover our 1st AD (Assistant Director)s' fees! This person is key to making sure our set runs on time and executes in a logistically sound fashion, so we grab everything we need to capture.

Multiversal Armory (PROPS) - $500

This item covers our props, which will be used to build a more immersive and realistic visual world for multiversal travel film. That way when our story reaches you, you'll have a more immersive viewing experience.

HMU:) - $350

Our HMU, Hair & Makeup Artist! This amount covers hair and makeup on set, which is vital for us, especially for our action scenes to sell the impact of our character' conflicts.