Liminal
Providence, Rhode Island | Series
LGBTQ, Documentary
We are a team of queer ghost-hunters led by a mixed-race, non-binary trans showrunner, and we need your help to keep filming investigations and unfolding this narrative of queerness, magic, and community. There is no paranormal investigation show like ours, and we need your help to make more of it.
Liminal
Providence, Rhode Island | Series
LGBTQ, Documentary

1 Campaigns | Rhode Island, United States
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We are a team of queer ghost-hunters led by a mixed-race, non-binary trans showrunner, and we need your help to keep filming investigations and unfolding this narrative of queerness, magic, and community. There is no paranormal investigation show like ours, and we need your help to make more of it.
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Liminal is unlike any other paranormal series that exists. We seek out queer and trans people with magical practices, and during the daylight portions of our investigations we interview them to learn about their lives, & what it means to exist in the spaces and the towns we're investigating; at night we bring a mix of tried & true paranormal techniques as well as some experimental ones of our own to explore the dark & mysterious locations we find ourselves in.
In all of my years watching paranormal television I have never felt represented by the investigators on the screen. The vast majority of paranormal Investigators on television are white, they're cisgender, & they're only interested in telling the stories as they have been written, which often fail to consider the voices silenced or excluded by the people who wrote those stories down in the first place. I am now a paranormal investigator myself, and with Liminal I aim to explore the full breadth of the paranormal by engaging these perspectives that have not otherwise been considered.
Liminal comes at a crucial time for queer & trans folk.
The South is, in many ways, an unsafe place for queer & trans people. While forces in government & society hope to expel & harm folks like us in the region, many queer & trans people call the American South their home. Liminal seeks to elevate these voices even in the midst of a movement to try to silence them. In doing so, Liminal explores not only the unknown, but also the beautiful & powerful lives of queer & trans people in the South. Liminal also seeks to inform people who live comfortably in cities on the coasts that there are queer & trans people who have beautiful & powerful lives in the South.
My name is Dash, and I am the creator and co-host of Liminal. As a mixed race, non-binary trans paranormal investigator leading a queer investigation team, I know that this is our story to tell, and I know this story is important. Shining a spotlight on other people like me living in the American South feels crucial to me, now more than ever. And we need your help to tell this story in the way it deserves to be told.
With a lot of passion, a very small amount of money, and an amazing team of volunteers, we shot our pilot, where we investigated the Bell Witch of Adams, TN, and became wrapped up in a web of magic, synchronicities, and literal copperhead snakes. Check out that pilot here: LINK
People have loved Liminal at festivals all around the world. Salem Horror Fest chose our pilot as an Official Selection in its “Local Mass Hysteria” section. We won the ASSAP Gold Award for “Best Paranormal Investigation Film,” & the Gold Award for “Best TV Episode/Pilot” at the Fortean Film Fest. The Golden Gate International Film Festival nominated us for "Best LGBT" & "Best Documentary Film." The LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival awarded us “Excellence” in the Documentary Category, and “Exceptional Merit” in “Content/Message Delivery, Research, and Viewer Impact: inspirational.” In short, Liminal is special, & with your help, we can make a lot more of it!
We need your help to shoot the rest of this series!
We have our pilot shot! It is viewable right now on Youtube. With your help here we can shoot the next episode, and hopefully keep our momentum up to shoot subsequent episodes! With the funds raised in this campaign we will shoot our next episode tentatively in January, and release the episode on our youtube channel in the early parts of next year, between Feb and June.
Our pilot explored the past, as we investigated the Bell Witch Mystery, and for part two of our series, we're diving deep into exploring & uplifting queer magic practice & power in the modern day. We'll head to Forest City, North Carolina to meet & investigate with Mortellus, a non-binary necromancer and best-selling author who leads a coven of magick practitioners in the rural South. We'll spend a weekend with them as they craft spirit boards, pour energy & magic into soaps and tinctures, and together we'll investigate phenomena in the woods where they spend their time.
This budget, & your funds, will ensure we can cover everyone’s travel, feed everyone, insure everyone, & compensate our team for their hard work. Just like these stories deserve to be told, everyone on the Liminal team deserves pay & recognition. This budget also allocates funds to purchase the gear we will need to shoot this show, so as not to be at the whims of whatever camera rental is available in some of the smaller towns we will find ourselves. This also means that subsequent episodes will be much cheaper to finance, as we will still own the gear paid for from your generous contributions!
STRETCH GOALS
The goal amount of $8750 is the minimum we can shoot the next episode of this series! Ultimately we envision the first season of Liminal being 10 episodes long, and if you help us exceed that you can help guarantee that even more of this show exists!
$8750 - We can shoot our next episode with Mortellus
$13000 - in addition to episode 2, we will be able to schedule and shoot episode 3, in Charlottesville, Virginia
$17000 - This allows us to schedule and shoot episode 4, which will take us to New Orleans.
$21000 - We'll be able to shoot episode 5, in Rural Texas.
$25000 - This will let us lock in episode 6, set in Braxton County, West Virginia.
$29000 - We'll be able to shoot episode 7 in the swamps of Florida
$32000 - With this money we'll be able to shoot episode 8 in West Georgia.
$36000 - We'll shoot the first season's penultimate episode, investigating stops across the Appalachian Mountain Range
$40000 - We'll be able to shoot our season finale, following the final threads of all prior episodes where they lead us
Follow and Share!
Thank you for reading about our project! Please show your support by pledging to our campaign, as well as following our campaign for updates! Following our campaign helps this website show our campaign to new people!
Please also share info about Liminal across your social media! If you're not sure what to write, you can copy/paste this! "Help support a trans paranormal investigation series feat. a diverse team of weirdos as they explore the unknown https://seedandspark.com/fund/liminalshow"
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Travel
Costs $1,200
Airfare for our team (Dash, Rosa, Fox, cinematographer Head, cam op Jules) to fly to North Carolina
Director/Cinematographer
Costs $750
This is the friends rate for our director/cinematographer, if we exceed the goal we'll pay him more!
Lodging + Food
Costs $1,000
Unlike ghosts, we must eat. Like ghosts, we need a place to haunt. // Food & shelter for our team during the investigation
Liability Insurance
Costs $150
Our executive producers informed me that we need to have liability insurance for this project!
Camera, Rig, and Sound purchase
Costs $5,650
To ensure our show looks & sounds the best that it can consistently, we'll purchase the gear that we'll need for our whole series!
About This Team
In front of the camera our team is composed of two paranormal investigators and a witch. Behind the scenes we're working with filmmaker William Head of Strange Bird Productions to shoot and edit our work.
Dash
Dash Kwiatkowski (they/them) is a writer, podcaster, and paranormal investigator currently living in Providence, RI. They spent a decade as a touring stand up comedian, and have been featured in comedy festivals around the country and are one third of a comedy special featured on Amazon Prime called “Brash Boys Club” in spite of not being brash, a boy, or in any notable clubs. They’ve been investigating the paranormal for several years and are pretty convinced Bigfoot is some sort of ghost.
Rosa
Rosa Escandon (she/her) is a writer, comedian, and journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is one half of the Psychic Advice and comedy podcast, Psychic Friendz. She has been featured in Vulture, Buzzfeed Video, and on the MLB Network. She has been a performer and writer on multiple sketch teams and writes a little satire on the side for Awf Magazine. She recently finished her first novel. When she is not writing, you can usually find her on TikTok.
Fox
Biracial Korean-American storyteller, performer, artist, creator, speaker and wearer of varied hats, Rockette Fox (she/her) is a bi-furious, queer, witchy woman who embraces the strange in the pursuit of the peculiar in her work. She has hosted/emceed, taught, and spoken at storytelling events for over ten years. Her illustrative work, odd makeup, and podcast, Fantastically Strange, have captured the imagination of those who share in her love of magic through the authenticity of expression.
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Liminal is unlike any other paranormal series that exists. We seek out queer and trans people with magical practices, and during the daylight portions of our investigations we interview them to learn about their lives, & what it means to exist in the spaces and the towns we're investigating; at night we bring a mix of tried & true paranormal techniques as well as some experimental ones of our own to explore the dark & mysterious locations we find ourselves in.
In all of my years watching paranormal television I have never felt represented by the investigators on the screen. The vast majority of paranormal Investigators on television are white, they're cisgender, & they're only interested in telling the stories as they have been written, which often fail to consider the voices silenced or excluded by the people who wrote those stories down in the first place. I am now a paranormal investigator myself, and with Liminal I aim to explore the full breadth of the paranormal by engaging these perspectives that have not otherwise been considered.
Liminal comes at a crucial time for queer & trans folk.
The South is, in many ways, an unsafe place for queer & trans people. While forces in government & society hope to expel & harm folks like us in the region, many queer & trans people call the American South their home. Liminal seeks to elevate these voices even in the midst of a movement to try to silence them. In doing so, Liminal explores not only the unknown, but also the beautiful & powerful lives of queer & trans people in the South. Liminal also seeks to inform people who live comfortably in cities on the coasts that there are queer & trans people who have beautiful & powerful lives in the South.
My name is Dash, and I am the creator and co-host of Liminal. As a mixed race, non-binary trans paranormal investigator leading a queer investigation team, I know that this is our story to tell, and I know this story is important. Shining a spotlight on other people like me living in the American South feels crucial to me, now more than ever. And we need your help to tell this story in the way it deserves to be told.
With a lot of passion, a very small amount of money, and an amazing team of volunteers, we shot our pilot, where we investigated the Bell Witch of Adams, TN, and became wrapped up in a web of magic, synchronicities, and literal copperhead snakes. Check out that pilot here: LINK
People have loved Liminal at festivals all around the world. Salem Horror Fest chose our pilot as an Official Selection in its “Local Mass Hysteria” section. We won the ASSAP Gold Award for “Best Paranormal Investigation Film,” & the Gold Award for “Best TV Episode/Pilot” at the Fortean Film Fest. The Golden Gate International Film Festival nominated us for "Best LGBT" & "Best Documentary Film." The LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival awarded us “Excellence” in the Documentary Category, and “Exceptional Merit” in “Content/Message Delivery, Research, and Viewer Impact: inspirational.” In short, Liminal is special, & with your help, we can make a lot more of it!
We need your help to shoot the rest of this series!
We have our pilot shot! It is viewable right now on Youtube. With your help here we can shoot the next episode, and hopefully keep our momentum up to shoot subsequent episodes! With the funds raised in this campaign we will shoot our next episode tentatively in January, and release the episode on our youtube channel in the early parts of next year, between Feb and June.
Our pilot explored the past, as we investigated the Bell Witch Mystery, and for part two of our series, we're diving deep into exploring & uplifting queer magic practice & power in the modern day. We'll head to Forest City, North Carolina to meet & investigate with Mortellus, a non-binary necromancer and best-selling author who leads a coven of magick practitioners in the rural South. We'll spend a weekend with them as they craft spirit boards, pour energy & magic into soaps and tinctures, and together we'll investigate phenomena in the woods where they spend their time.
This budget, & your funds, will ensure we can cover everyone’s travel, feed everyone, insure everyone, & compensate our team for their hard work. Just like these stories deserve to be told, everyone on the Liminal team deserves pay & recognition. This budget also allocates funds to purchase the gear we will need to shoot this show, so as not to be at the whims of whatever camera rental is available in some of the smaller towns we will find ourselves. This also means that subsequent episodes will be much cheaper to finance, as we will still own the gear paid for from your generous contributions!
STRETCH GOALS
The goal amount of $8750 is the minimum we can shoot the next episode of this series! Ultimately we envision the first season of Liminal being 10 episodes long, and if you help us exceed that you can help guarantee that even more of this show exists!
$8750 - We can shoot our next episode with Mortellus
$13000 - in addition to episode 2, we will be able to schedule and shoot episode 3, in Charlottesville, Virginia
$17000 - This allows us to schedule and shoot episode 4, which will take us to New Orleans.
$21000 - We'll be able to shoot episode 5, in Rural Texas.
$25000 - This will let us lock in episode 6, set in Braxton County, West Virginia.
$29000 - We'll be able to shoot episode 7 in the swamps of Florida
$32000 - With this money we'll be able to shoot episode 8 in West Georgia.
$36000 - We'll shoot the first season's penultimate episode, investigating stops across the Appalachian Mountain Range
$40000 - We'll be able to shoot our season finale, following the final threads of all prior episodes where they lead us
Follow and Share!
Thank you for reading about our project! Please show your support by pledging to our campaign, as well as following our campaign for updates! Following our campaign helps this website show our campaign to new people!
Please also share info about Liminal across your social media! If you're not sure what to write, you can copy/paste this! "Help support a trans paranormal investigation series feat. a diverse team of weirdos as they explore the unknown https://seedandspark.com/fund/liminalshow"
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Travel
Costs $1,200
Airfare for our team (Dash, Rosa, Fox, cinematographer Head, cam op Jules) to fly to North Carolina
Director/Cinematographer
Costs $750
This is the friends rate for our director/cinematographer, if we exceed the goal we'll pay him more!
Lodging + Food
Costs $1,000
Unlike ghosts, we must eat. Like ghosts, we need a place to haunt. // Food & shelter for our team during the investigation
Liability Insurance
Costs $150
Our executive producers informed me that we need to have liability insurance for this project!
Camera, Rig, and Sound purchase
Costs $5,650
To ensure our show looks & sounds the best that it can consistently, we'll purchase the gear that we'll need for our whole series!
About This Team
In front of the camera our team is composed of two paranormal investigators and a witch. Behind the scenes we're working with filmmaker William Head of Strange Bird Productions to shoot and edit our work.
Dash
Dash Kwiatkowski (they/them) is a writer, podcaster, and paranormal investigator currently living in Providence, RI. They spent a decade as a touring stand up comedian, and have been featured in comedy festivals around the country and are one third of a comedy special featured on Amazon Prime called “Brash Boys Club” in spite of not being brash, a boy, or in any notable clubs. They’ve been investigating the paranormal for several years and are pretty convinced Bigfoot is some sort of ghost.
Rosa
Rosa Escandon (she/her) is a writer, comedian, and journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is one half of the Psychic Advice and comedy podcast, Psychic Friendz. She has been featured in Vulture, Buzzfeed Video, and on the MLB Network. She has been a performer and writer on multiple sketch teams and writes a little satire on the side for Awf Magazine. She recently finished her first novel. When she is not writing, you can usually find her on TikTok.
Fox
Biracial Korean-American storyteller, performer, artist, creator, speaker and wearer of varied hats, Rockette Fox (she/her) is a bi-furious, queer, witchy woman who embraces the strange in the pursuit of the peculiar in her work. She has hosted/emceed, taught, and spoken at storytelling events for over ten years. Her illustrative work, odd makeup, and podcast, Fantastically Strange, have captured the imagination of those who share in her love of magic through the authenticity of expression.