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Josh Kermes was defeated by one single word. Now John Trigonis is making a film about this word and what it did to one man twenty four years ago…
Imagine that you are a six-time spelling be champion. And then one day, a word comes along – one single word – that defeats you and throws our entire world into disarray.
This is what happened to Josh Kermes, the main character in an upcoming film by poet and amateur filmmaker John Trigonis. The word in question will be revealed in a moment, but first let’s take a look at something just as (if not more) interesting as the word that could take down a six-time spelling bee champ:
A film about single word (and a spelling bee champ) that exceeds it’s funding goal and allows a poet and amateur filmmaker to bring his vision to the “big screen.”
How is this possible?
Crowd funding is the phenomenon that allowed John Trigonis to fully fund his short film before producing it, and IndieGoGo in particular is the crowd funding platform that he accomplished this on.
The most interesting (and encouraging, if you have similar ambitions yourself) is the bare-bones submission that brought in $6,300 in funds – it consists of a 3 minute, 6 second video pitch and 3 (short) paragraphs of text. No budget, no 20 page proposal, no begging necessary…just a quick pitch on IndieGoGo and there you go, $6,300 for your film. Bam. That’s one lucky guy.
Unfortunately, our hero Mr. Kermes was not so lucky. His dreams came crashing down when he failed to spell one single word, and 24 years later he is still being haunted by his failure. In fact, it gets worse: the very person who won the spelling bee Mr. Kermes was defeated in has literally come back to haunt him, by getting hired as the new tutor in the company Mr. Kermes works for.
What was the word that took Mr. Kermes down all those years ago? The word “cerise.” But what the heck is “cerise?”
First, cerise is a color. The first recorded use of cerise as a color name was in 1858, and the best description of the color I can verbalize is a kind of hot pink raspberry (although “vivid cerise” tends more to purple). Second, Cerise is the title of the independent film that was just crowd funded on Indiegogo for $6,300.
What could YOU get funded with a 3 minute video and 3 paragraphs of vaguely descriptive text? The sky’s the limit, once you learn a few simple secrets to making it in the world of crowd funding.
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