ADA funded STEM themed indie film

Produce a low budget Asian STEM indie film with some crypto to counter crypto/Cardano FUD, and release it as an online video.

The Proponent is a book author/screenwriter/playwright/tech consultant. He had an off-off-Broadway NYC play in December 2018. He writes newspaper tech opeds.

He was a former Intel robotics engineer and has an EE background. He has a good working knowledge of crypto/blockchain.

[IMPACT]

A low budget Asian STEM themed drama with Cardano ADA featured in the film and acknowledged in the credits and accompanying press releases. The logo will be shown in the film and Cardano will be mentioned in the dialogue.

It could be initially shown to ADA stakers before general public release.

**Amazon Prime Video allows indie filmmakers to upload to their system so this is one distribution option for us.** Other options include Youtube, Vimeo, limited theatrical release, etc.

This proposed low budget Asian STEM themed indie film can help counter FUD against crypto and Cardano ADA.

The screenplay has been reviewed by a Hollywood studio reader, and also by Scott Rosenfelt the coproducer of Home Alone/Teen Wolf/Mystic Pizza. Scott is willing to be a paid consultant to the Project. So it is a quality screenplay worthy of an intelligent audience, which is who we hope to target as new crypto users.

We are confident we can deliver this film, short of any "Act of God" type incidents.

The script has been reviewed by a Hollywood studio reader, and by Scott Rosenfelt (coproducer of Home Alone/Mystic Pizza/Teen Wolf). While by no means perfect and in a constant state of improvement, we feel that the finished film could potentially become a crypto "cult favorite."

The current state of smartphones like the iPhone 13 Pro Max, Samsung S22 Ultra, Sony Xperia Pro allow 4K 24 frame per second color corrected video that already almost matches that of professional expensive cameras like the Arri Alexa, Red, etc.

Our film will feature tools that cut the costs of production without sacrificing video/audio quality.

[FEASIBILITY]

More details can be provided if and when we are shortlisted:

Q1: Wrap up fund raising / finalize agreements

Q2: First principal day of filming to last day of filming

Q3: Editing/ Marketing/Film Distribution etc

Q4: Film Distribution / Marketing / Press/ Public release (assumes financing is secured Q1'2022)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Although we have asked for $50k equivalent in this pitch, we can downscale and adjust the budget we require if needed and just raise the other funding elsewhere.

**If this proposal will not be selected, any help to push this film forward is still welcome.**

More details can be provided if and when we are shortlisted. **Note the amount we are asking for is only a part of the total budget we need, some of it will need to be equity.**

Our budget in general looks like this (subject to change).

Script Development: 5%

Producer/s: 10%

Actor Professional Fees (includes star cameos if any): 45%

Director Professional Fee: 10%

Advisers/Consultants: 5%

Venue/Props/Costumes/Vehicles/Camera: 10%

Marketing/Press: Not included, separate budget to be raised

Editing: 10%

Misc: 5%

Screenwriter: Dennis Posadas is a Philippines-based tech consultant, playwright/screenwriter, and author of Leap: A Sustainability Fable (Singapore: Pearson, 2015). His previous play was performed off-off-Broadway in NYC last December 2018. He is a former Intel robotics engineer. His books include Greenergized (UK: Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2013), Jump Start: A Technopreneurship Fable (Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009) and Rice & Chips: Technopreneurship and Innovation in Asia (Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007). His previous opeds have been published in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, YaleGlobal, South China Morning Post, HK Economic Journal, Singapore Straits Times, and other publications. He has a good working knowledge of crypto/blockchain.

Lead Actor (in negotiations): An NYC trained stage actor who has been in the hit play Angels in America, but he is open in principle once funding is available.

Cameo Star: Joel Torre, established Filipino male film star as the Dad.

Director: Alvi Siongco, former creative director at a leading global ad agency (Leo Burnett Manila office).

Director of Photography/Cinematographer: Henry Posadas, film/photography instructor, commercial photographer and short film maker.

Adviser: Scott Rosenfelt, coproducer of Home Alone/Teen Wolf/Mystic Pizza and NYU Film School alumnus.

Others: Voice actors, editor, etc.

NOTE: The team is subject to change…

[AUDITABILITY]

We will do quarterly updates to the Cardano Foundation.

We will show the draft film online by end of Q4'2022 (latest), assuming financing is secured Q1'2022.

This is not a complicated film to make. The story is simple. That of a STEM technopreneur who at the start is brave and bold, but whose confidence is rattled by a major crisis. In the end, he has to adjust to reality and find success in some other way.

At a minimum, the proposed film needs to be completed end of 2022 and shown online, or ideally through film festivals or directly through streaming services.

Maximum success would be if this low budget film convinces a major streaming service or studio like Netflix, HBO, etc to take a chance on another Asian STEM themed drama film or miniseries. With crypto in the plot of course. But hopefully the major streaming services/studios will finance it.

The audience for something like that would be in the millions.

This is a new project.