My Art Depends On Your Love
I struggle to make sci-fi and fantasy films set in my cultures (Luo, East Africa) for they require heavy investments to achieve photo-realistic VFX, yet we barely have a market to support such ventures, and the big international players largely ignore us. Crowdfunding enabled me to make many short films as target practice, until I achieve good visual effects like this. Even $1 helps! It proves that you enjoy my stories enough to pay for it. And, I have a lot of ways to say thank you, whether you give a one-off donation through PayPal, or you pledge continuous support through Patreon, Ko-Fi, or LiberaPay, I can’t say thank you enough!
What you get in return
If you pledge via patreon, there are great reward for each tier of support. If you make a one-off donation through PayPal, or pledge via ko-fi or LiberaPay, this is what you get in return.
Donate $1 and you get early access to the film. Plus, you get digital art and wallpapers for your devices, desktop or mobile, themed on my short films, or on nature photography that I do. You’ll love this if you are a fan of birds and insects. Plus, you get mentioned in the credits!
Donate $3 and get all above plus access to download a high quality version of the most recent film, or a film of your choice.
Donate $5 and get all above plus access to download Little Red Eve (2025), my most recent short film. See the trailer here.
Donate $10 and get all above plus access to download Akoota (2019). See the trailer here.
Donate $20 and get all above plus a novella, The Eater of Happiness, currently unpublished, steeped in Luo mythology. It’s about a woman who wakes up heavily pregnant, and yet the previous day she was not, and she has to enlist the help of abiba, a character that shits fire, to defeat the evil of her ex-boyfriend.
Donate Any Amount and you’ll get all the rewards closest to it. For example, if you give $15 you get everything in the $20 bracket. If it is $30 or more, you get a secret bonus (okay, not a secret, but I’ll see what to give you, and it could be a novella, or a WIP short film, or a collection of short stories, or anything you might want!)