Financial support
Why Donate?

All donors will be credited in the film; Donors of $1000 or more will be credited as “Executive Producer”
Facts
-Our budget is based entirely on our own savings and the donations of others
-The budget is $40,000
-This is an opportunity for the work of several young filmmakers to be seen by many important people in Hollywood
-Previous USC thesis films have gone on to win Best Short Film at the Academy Awards and Sundance
Donation dates
We need to raise the full budget by December 2009.
However, the sooner the better.
Accomplishing a film this exciting and ambitious will take an enormous amount of time, money and energy. Even short films can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Our costs include lighting and camera packages, location usage, music, sound stages and choreography, meals for the cast and crew, editing suites -- the list of expenses seems almost endless.
While we’ve wrapped principal production, there is still much to be done, and we need money to do it. Our current costs include paying our crew, an editor, paying for hard drives and effects, and renting a sound stage and paying musicians to record the score and the orchestral parts of the song. We still need your help!
A cash, check or Paypal contribution is the most helpful and direct type of contribution. Funds are immediately accessible to the project through a bank account that the director and producer access specifically for the film Sudden Death! Please contribute to us via Paypal below (you don’t need a Paypal account, just a credit or debit card):
Film is an extraordinarily powerful medium. Sudden Death! has the potential to be a great film with an invaluable message about love and selflessness. However, we can’t do it alone.
Because this is a USC thesis (although we are making this completely without the help of USC), we are in a rare position with this film. It will screen at the First Look Festival at the Director’s Guild, and will subsequently be potentially seen in every studio, production company and agency in Hollywood. That’s what the USC name gets us. Previous USC thesis films have gotten students agents and multiple picture deals at major studios like Warner Bros. right out of film school. However, just because it’s seen by the right people doesn’t mean that we’ll “make it.” We have to blow them out of the water. We can and will - with your help.
This isn’t just a graduation requirement... it’s our one shot to burst into the Hollywood filmmaking scene face first.
Or via check to:
Adam or Melanie Hall
275 W. Verdugo Ave., 17
Burbank, CA 91502
(Please note the change of address)
Also, if you are interested in an in-kind donation in the form of services, recording space, editing equipment and other non-monetary donations please contact us at: info@suddendeaththemovie.com
-April 12, 2010
As of right now, we’re a little over a month away from our delivery date, and we simply haven’t raised enough money to finish Sudden Death! If you want to read the details, go HERE.
The bottom line is, we need your support now more than ever if Sudden Death! is going to be completed as it should be.
So, as an extra special incentive for anyone who donates during this drive ($15 or more), you will receive a special link and password to the first ever released footage from Sudden Death! Just a special extra thank you for those of you who help us out in the moment we need it the most. Thank you! Of course, $25 or more still gets you a copy of the completed film, and $1000 gets you an Executive Producer credit in the film.
Very special thanks to our donors...
David Sheerer - Executive Producer
Jim and Dawn Hall - Executive Producers
Michael and Marilyn Sheerer - Executive Producers
Jeff and Janet Roark - Executive Producers
Andrew and Jamie Plett
Michael Wooden
Jason and Kristine Haynes
Jerry and Rose Rothstein
Lorraine Webb
Phil and Debbie Abraham
Hal and Sharon Hall
John and Judy Katrosh
Bradley Sheerer, Frances O’Neill and Abigail Sheerer - Executive Producers
Evelyn Jacobie
Dora Sheerer
Scott Sheerer
Glenn and Megan Pennington
Dan, Cortney, Sara and Ashley Rich
John, Robin and Yiorgos Roumeliotis
Dan and Kris Coombes
John Bayer - Executive Producer
Jeff Gandillon
Pat and Laurel Breedlove
Mark and Rita Hussung
Elinor Malendoski
Valerie ErkenBrack Family
Micah Wakefield
Josh and Marlo Tucker
Rebecca Strubberg
Kris and Sherri Gandillon
Seth and Abby Prescott Family
Daryl McCoy
Patrick Murphy
Joi Goode
Steve and Tawney Milton
Keith and Kelly Riley
Jane Cocos
Rickita Whitten
Nathan and Lisa Warner
Andrew Hyatt
Roy and Kim Sheadel
Kristina ErkenBrack
Mike and Debbie Lessie
Criag Hoffman
Wes and Laura Hall - Executive Producers
Sarah Friedman
Alan Kay and Bonnie MacBird
Dave and Kylie Hageman
Jeffrey and Jessica Day
Tonya Schlekat
Lisa Rogers
Stephanie Welch
Renee Komodowski
Donna Travis
David and Richelle Akers - Executive Producers
Pari Turner - Executive Producer
Jason Richards
Gary and Lauren Barnes
Jan Rapp
Zachary DeVesty
Carson-Newman College Honors Program
Stefan Komodowski
Danielle James - Executive Producer