When my creator and I first started talking about Houmans, we always envisioned self-funding the project. We wrote the nine-episode series with that in mind. Unfortunately, we were both recently laid off from our respective jobs.
Now, both of us are hustling to generate income to pay bills, which leaves little in the way of setting funds aside for passion projects. But we still want to bring this series to the world.
A month ago we applied to two film grants:
- Screencraft’s 2019 Spring Film Fund
- From The Heart Productions’ Roy W. Dean Grant
Sadly, we didn’t advance in Screencraft’s Film Fund.
We should be hearing soon about the From The Heart Production’s grant but we’re not going to let that decide whether or not we make Houmans. We’ve decided to crowdfund and hope you will join the many that have already helped us get to this point.
Before we launch our crowdfunding campaign on Seed and Spark we want to hear from you. We’ve created a short survey to help us tailor our incentives to you. If the survey isn’t showing up for you below, you can click this link to take you there.
Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you!
Jesus Acevedo Jr. is the Editor-in-Chief of The Bayoucitian. He’s an award-winning bilingual journalist from Houston, TX. A graduate of the University of Houston, he has written for the Houston Chronicle, La Voz de Houston, MLSsoccer.com, and ProSoccerUSA.
Before becoming a journalist, Jesus spent his early 20s drumming his way across Houston with two bands — Shortcomings and InsertNameHere. The memories that Jesus made as a musician were the seeds that started the idea for the comedy, Houmans: The Series.