Thanks for being here! PLEASE CLICK ON THAT FOLLOW BUTTON TO THE RIGHT!! We need followers to win this contest rally thing. It's free for you and it helps us A LOT! (we won't spam you, just a few more email updates until this is done.) Ok, here's some info :) 

Hi, my name is Kevin Luna and I'm the director of this film, Big Dog City. We've shot the film and it's currently in edit. We're hoping to get your support for post production costs. Any money you can give will go a long way and if you're broke (like me) just following us here on this page is a huge help as we need to get 1500+ followers to be considered by the Duplass Brothers and maybe have them executive produce us.

But first, let me tell you more about the film:

The film that I'm talking about is a film about San Francisco. Or, ahem, the San Francisco Bay Area. Or rather, it's a personal film about growing up in the Bay Area. It's a film about myself and the people I've grown up with. And it's a film made by myself and the people I've grown up with. So in many ways it's a portrait. It's a kind of intimate portrait of an extremely gentrified and beautiful and problematic and always changing place and, within this landscape, a group of art/punk/hipster/slacker/fuckups who have grown up around there and are encountering/avoiding/assisting/resisting these changes every day while living their lives or trying to figure out how to live their lives anyways. That's all. No heros or villians. No moral compass. A little mystery perhaps, a little less romance, some awkward conversations, but mostly just a long, close look in the mirror.

Conceptually, you could try to think of the film as a meta fiction, an auto-biographical narrative dreamt out of this group's particular collective unconscious. Or you could think of it as a fictitious documentary, where the narrative is only a silky artifice, and that the making of the film in itself lends towards some kind of "real" document underneath that silk. It's staged but it's improvised. It's improvised but based on a narrative outline. What's real? What's fake? The lines get fuzzy. Things start to fall apart. In this way, the film is kind of like a knot that eventually comes loose and drifts slowly to the ground.

What happens is, we follow these two characters for about a day and a half. Mike, late 20's, unemployed, living at his parents and having problems with his medication. And Ramona a tough, lone wolf, Harrison Ford type, new to town, working in a cafe, looking for her techie boyfriend who disappeared a few days ago.

At its narrative core, the film is about these two characters who are both trying to get through the day and are confronted with certain things about themselves along the way. It's a film about growing up. About not growing up. About needing to be saved and not getting saved. It's a film about trying to figure things out but still being confused...

But I'll spare you any more soggy descriptions and try to cut to the chase. The support we're looking for right now is to finish post production in the best possible way. To pay our sound designer. To record a score. To find a colorist. To pay yours truly so that I can dive full time into finishing the edit and fixing all of the rest of these things...

And I want to be honest with you. I want your money, but I don't need your money. We're going to finish this film money or not. I'm going to put in what I have and I'm going to do my best until it's done. But, as I hope you can understand, any money you want to give is going make this film better. It's going to allow for everyone to really put in their time without thinking of all the other stresses in their lives (if only for a moment). And if we can manage to catch the attention of those Duplass bros, it's going to really help us to get it out there into the world.

So again, if you're interested in this film and have some bucks to throw our way, thank you!! Thank you again!!! And if you can't give any money but are still interested and want to help, following us on this Seed & Spark page, really really helps our chances of being able to pitch to those Duplass guys.

Thanks!

/Kevin Luna