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No Surprise – We Love Movies!
Movies are one of the best ways we learn about others and ourselves. Great storytelling generates strong emotions, transforms the viewer, and creates real opportunities for change.
A Problem
As a country, we are badly divided. Our polarized politics are tearing this country apart. We no longer see each other, only our differences. We’ve lost our perspective.
A Solution
Small Town is a movie project using an allegorical story about a community divided by differing moral beliefs. Strippers on one side of the street and Church Folk on the other, battling it out for control of the highway that separates them. It is only when they see the common bonds that bind them that real change, real acceptance, and real peace are possible. Our country could use this movie to help us heal and start hearing each other.
The Gap
We already have a funny and poignant script. And we are steadily working to assemble the right cast and crew to get this inspirational comedy produced. What we don’t have are the funds we need to make it all happen.
How You Can Help
By giving to this project and sharing it with your social and business networks, we can put together the financial resources to make a wonderful, poignant, high-quality, and impactful movie that will help bring us together.
Our Promise
When you support our project, you join a community of individuals passionate about community and the power of art through storytelling to create change. As we make this movie together, we’ll keep you updated every step of the way to show you the impact of the work your money has enabled.
SO...JOIN US!!!!
This is one of those times when you can
truly make a difference within an issue that affects us all.
Make a contribution, purchase some cool perks, or even just
share the campaign on any/all of your social media.
Here's Small Town Creator Debra DeLiso & Producer/Actor
Elizabeth Wu to tell you about
Small Town, and how you can help!
You can help a great film get made whose time really is NOW!
We promise to make you proud. And all of us a bit less stressed out. Thank you!
Perks
- 4 ordered
The perfect mug for a cuppa joe, or maybe even a little gin pick-me-up (That's what Lorraine uses hers for :)) Also makes a great gift!
LIMITED QUANTITIES! Do you have a story to tell? Have you always wanted to try your hand at acting? In Debra DeLiso's Theatre of Compassion Academy, you can do just that! This perk enables a 40% discount on her asynchronous (on your own time) Solo Performance Course, which costs $249, but can be yours for $100. Also makes a great gift!
Your own exclusive Small Town Movie T-Shirt in Red.
Unisex cotton shirt in a variety of sizes.
Your own exclusive Small Town Movie T-Shirt in White.
Unisex cotton shirt in a variety of sizes.
Your own exclusive Small Town Movie T-Shirt in Charcoal.
Unisex cotton shirt in a variety of sizes.
Have you ever wanted to peek behind the silver screen and see what it's like to make a movie? Be a fly on the wall at a real actor's table read, where the cast sits down to read through the script together as one of their first steps. Several dates will be available once the film is financed and the production schedule is determined.
- 2 claimed
- 18 remaining
Want to move to another level in your creative life? This perk gives you a 30-minute creative consultation with award-winning Hollywood veteran actor/director Debra De Liso, who has taught hundreds of students at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and USC's Theatre program. Choose a date between December 2023 and March 31, 2024 for your Zoom session.
- 0 ordered
- 3 remaining
Only THREE Available! When they're gone, they're gone!
Sexy tattooed waitress Xan will serve up your personalized comedic burlesque routine on video.
A great gift for the upcoming holidays, or for a birthday or anniversary!
- 3 ordered
- 0 remaining
A tongue-in-cheek video blessing and prayer just for you from Wilma,
the pious church lady...sure to put a smile on your face and a halo
over your head!
Only 3 available--when they're gone, they're gone!
Great for Xmas, birthday or anniversary gift!!
Highlights
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First things first. We're an indie production, and so we need to build our budget in steps and begin work at the same time. This takes a lot of faith, which we have, but it also takes cold hard cash!
IMPORTANT NOTE: We have an agreement with SAG/AFTRA as an "ULB" (Ultra-Low Budget) project. This means we need to make the film for under $300,000.
In this first milestone campaign, we want to raise $50,000, or about the first 16% of the budget. While we work on raising the rest, we'll start laying the pre-production foundation by using these funds to pay for:
- Attracting Name Actors
- Attaching a Director & Production Company
- Completing Promotional/Fundraising Materials/Pitch Decks, etc.
- Securing Locations
- Filming the First Scenes
IF more financing is acquired, we can expand production.
Subsequent Financing Steps
Future financing efforts may include:
--subsequent milestone crowdfunding campaigns with new perks;
--equity crowdfunding (where non-accredited investors can invest in the project for smaller amounts);
--private investment with accredited investors
For more information, contact debradeliso@gmail.com
Characters & Story
Small Town is peopled with a diverse and quirky cast of characters. Here's a look at a few of them...
On one side of the highway is Madame WuWu's Cantina... | On the other side is the High Way Church... | LORRAINEa mule-headed alcoholic stripper mama who fancies herself an exotic dancer... | WILMAthe uptight and musically gifted organist of the High Way Church, and a prejudiced homophobic... | Other Characters... | LEXI - Lorraine's feisty daughter, a wild woman with an extraordinary singing voice. MADAME WU - the strong willed Chinese cantina owner, sick with cancer, tango dancer. CELIA -a Latina motel maid and political activist. ALMA - the Filipina stripper/snake dancer and town apothecary. TXU - Basque town mechanic, motorcycle mama and animal rescuer. JOHNNY JON - a slick L.A. hustler, African American who secretly longs to be a renowned chef. MATE - Johnny Jon’s side kick, a dim-witted but tender-hearted Australian. DANNY - a good natured, disabled African American Viet Nam vet, talented illustrator. DICK - "Little person," horny bar fly and Shakespearean actor. NORMAN - the cross-dressing hotel receptionist. | PASTOR PETE - a hypocritical preacher, peeper, and closeted lounge singer. SHERIFF JACK - the only local authority, fair minded, with a soft spot for Lorraine. DAVEY – Wilma's repressed son secretly dresses as a chanteuse. JESSICA - Wilma's daughter studying to be a lawyer, represses her own happiness. |
The Small Town Story
While members of the High Way Church attempt to shut down Madame WuWu’s Cantina on the grounds of “moral decency,” alcoholic exotic dancer Lorraine discovers her daughter Lexi stripp'n for tips to leave town. Lorraine wrangles a ragtag group of misfit barflies together to preserve the cantina and unexpectedly draws Lexi and the church folks into a zany talent show that changes the town forever.
- 4 ordered
The perfect mug for a cuppa joe, or maybe even a little gin pick-me-up (That's what Lorraine uses hers for :)) Also makes a great gift!
LIMITED QUANTITIES! Do you have a story to tell? Have you always wanted to try your hand at acting? In Debra DeLiso's Theatre of Compassion Academy, you can do just that! This perk enables a 40% discount on her asynchronous (on your own time) Solo Performance Course, which costs $249, but can be yours for $100. Also makes a great gift!
Your own exclusive Small Town Movie T-Shirt in Red.
Unisex cotton shirt in a variety of sizes.
Your own exclusive Small Town Movie T-Shirt in White.
Unisex cotton shirt in a variety of sizes.
Your own exclusive Small Town Movie T-Shirt in Charcoal.
Unisex cotton shirt in a variety of sizes.
Have you ever wanted to peek behind the silver screen and see what it's like to make a movie? Be a fly on the wall at a real actor's table read, where the cast sits down to read through the script together as one of their first steps. Several dates will be available once the film is financed and the production schedule is determined.
- 2 claimed
- 18 remaining
Want to move to another level in your creative life? This perk gives you a 30-minute creative consultation with award-winning Hollywood veteran actor/director Debra De Liso, who has taught hundreds of students at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and USC's Theatre program. Choose a date between December 2023 and March 31, 2024 for your Zoom session.
- 0 ordered
- 3 remaining
Only THREE Available! When they're gone, they're gone!
Sexy tattooed waitress Xan will serve up your personalized comedic burlesque routine on video.
A great gift for the upcoming holidays, or for a birthday or anniversary!
- 3 ordered
- 0 remaining
A tongue-in-cheek video blessing and prayer just for you from Wilma,
the pious church lady...sure to put a smile on your face and a halo
over your head!
Only 3 available--when they're gone, they're gone!
Great for Xmas, birthday or anniversary gift!!
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