JORDAN (The Post Production #SplashForward!)
Atlanta, Georgia | Film Short
Drama, Fantasy
When a tween mermaid enthusiast discovers an ailing water creature, she uses a magical wish to change the fate of their existence...and her own. JORDAN engages the genre of fantasy and cli-fi (climate fiction) to shape a fairytale where everyone has agency and representation.
JORDAN (The Post Production #SplashForward!)
Atlanta, Georgia | Film Short
Drama, Fantasy
1 Campaigns | Georgia, United States
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This campaign raised $29,856 for post-production. Follow the filmmaker to receive future updates on this project.
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When a tween mermaid enthusiast discovers an ailing water creature, she uses a magical wish to change the fate of their existence...and her own. JORDAN engages the genre of fantasy and cli-fi (climate fiction) to shape a fairytale where everyone has agency and representation.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Our Epic Production Swim
On March 29th—International Mermaid Day—we launched our pre-production campaign inviting you to #SwimWithUs. In May 2021, your support funded the 3-day production of our short but epic tale! We are deeply grateful and want you to continue swimming alongside us as we expand the magic of the very real world you helped create.
Our Post-production #SplashForward
We're raising the final $8K of our overall film budget. During our pre-production campaign, your support helped us smash our $12K minimum and pushed us over $7K into our stretch goals—for a total of $19,355. We were able to expand our world visually with a dream location, a high-end camera & lighting package, and a bigger, amazing crew! NOW, that our movie is filmed, we are all the more inspired and commited to diving deeper in the full potential of our film. This next wave of funding supports our #SplashForward to Oscar-qualifying film festivals. If we exceed our 100% funding mark, we will use those additional funds for marketing and travel to the festivals we receive an official selection from. Upon winning any of those film festival official selections, JORDAN we'll be riding the wave all the way to the Oscars!!!
Story
The film follows Jordan Conway, a curious adventurer and tween girl making a big discovery in a place where fantastical happenings are least expected to everyone but her. While on a fishing trip with her father, Zod Conway, the pair find what they believe to be a distressed mermaid. They take her back to Atlanta to care for her, only to discover she is not exactly what she seems.
Faced with the reality of the underwater world and the land above the sea, the mermaid and her rescuers must reconcile the blindsiding truths about what happens in a world so rigidly functioning through environmental and social injustices.
The film's fantastical but relatable nature engages Afrofuturism and Diaspora Folklore as a lens to explore Black girls being bold enough to take on characters they’ve been told they cannot portray. JORDAN is a testament of the black girl adventurer exploring the vitality and complexity of self-discovery in equal measure.
Why JORDAN now?
Filmmaking gives us an opportunity to imagine the world we want to live in and our hope is that the themes presented in our film will inspire, and motivate audiences to take action in creating a more sustainable and intersectional world. JORDAN was one of seven projects selected across the southern region for the Climate Story Lab US South—a week of radical collaboration on how to best mobilize communities and enage audiences around climate action. Our mission is to amplify—through the eyes of an adventurous protagonist—how human activities are threatening the healthy functioning of life-sustaining ecosystems crucial to all of civilization. Using our story and leveraging our power as storytellers, our goal is to help bridge the gap between our audience to organizations and resources leading the way in environmental justice.
camera operator, Alvin McBean ~photo by Sierra King
writer/director, Ebony Blanding ~photo by Sierra King
WAVE TO US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
We’re on Instagram and Twitter and we love our friends on “the innanetz”! Feel to share your own personal message or our message below to your preferred spaces on the web.
#SplashForward with the cli-fi black girl adventure @TheJordanFilm support their post-production wave to being an award-winning film HERE!!!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Festival Entries & Promotion
Costs $2,500
An $2,500 SPLASH forward.
Production Equipment Rentals
Costs $4,000
A $4,000 splash forward.
Film Poster Artwork
Costs $1,500
A $1,500 splash forward.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Our Epic Production Swim
On March 29th—International Mermaid Day—we launched our pre-production campaign inviting you to #SwimWithUs. In May 2021, your support funded the 3-day production of our short but epic tale! We are deeply grateful and want you to continue swimming alongside us as we expand the magic of the very real world you helped create.
Our Post-production #SplashForward
We're raising the final $8K of our overall film budget. During our pre-production campaign, your support helped us smash our $12K minimum and pushed us over $7K into our stretch goals—for a total of $19,355. We were able to expand our world visually with a dream location, a high-end camera & lighting package, and a bigger, amazing crew! NOW, that our movie is filmed, we are all the more inspired and commited to diving deeper in the full potential of our film. This next wave of funding supports our #SplashForward to Oscar-qualifying film festivals. If we exceed our 100% funding mark, we will use those additional funds for marketing and travel to the festivals we receive an official selection from. Upon winning any of those film festival official selections, JORDAN we'll be riding the wave all the way to the Oscars!!!
Story
The film follows Jordan Conway, a curious adventurer and tween girl making a big discovery in a place where fantastical happenings are least expected to everyone but her. While on a fishing trip with her father, Zod Conway, the pair find what they believe to be a distressed mermaid. They take her back to Atlanta to care for her, only to discover she is not exactly what she seems.
Faced with the reality of the underwater world and the land above the sea, the mermaid and her rescuers must reconcile the blindsiding truths about what happens in a world so rigidly functioning through environmental and social injustices.
The film's fantastical but relatable nature engages Afrofuturism and Diaspora Folklore as a lens to explore Black girls being bold enough to take on characters they’ve been told they cannot portray. JORDAN is a testament of the black girl adventurer exploring the vitality and complexity of self-discovery in equal measure.
Why JORDAN now?
Filmmaking gives us an opportunity to imagine the world we want to live in and our hope is that the themes presented in our film will inspire, and motivate audiences to take action in creating a more sustainable and intersectional world. JORDAN was one of seven projects selected across the southern region for the Climate Story Lab US South—a week of radical collaboration on how to best mobilize communities and enage audiences around climate action. Our mission is to amplify—through the eyes of an adventurous protagonist—how human activities are threatening the healthy functioning of life-sustaining ecosystems crucial to all of civilization. Using our story and leveraging our power as storytellers, our goal is to help bridge the gap between our audience to organizations and resources leading the way in environmental justice.
camera operator, Alvin McBean ~photo by Sierra King
writer/director, Ebony Blanding ~photo by Sierra King
WAVE TO US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
We’re on Instagram and Twitter and we love our friends on “the innanetz”! Feel to share your own personal message or our message below to your preferred spaces on the web.
#SplashForward with the cli-fi black girl adventure @TheJordanFilm support their post-production wave to being an award-winning film HERE!!!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Festival Entries & Promotion
Costs $2,500
An $2,500 SPLASH forward.
Production Equipment Rentals
Costs $4,000
A $4,000 splash forward.
Film Poster Artwork
Costs $1,500
A $1,500 splash forward.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
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