Crowdfunding for SLIP is live!

introducing slip, THE NEW SHORT FILM FROM LARA HILL!

Surprise! I am writing and directing my next short film! Slip is an award-winning and heartfelt romantic drama about a marriage in transition and the memories and complicated decisions brought to the fore when a wife lets the wrong name slip during sex.

This story means so much to me - it will be the first film I’ve gotten to make since my transition, and the first film I will have made about my experience as a trans person. I first wrote it in the spring of 2023, roughly 9 months into my own transition, and though the gender and direction of the lead character’s transition are inverted, my experience of realizing my identity within a committed romantic partnership is reflected in it. I’m excited to finally create something that reflects this part of myself.

And now for the big news: we are crowdfunding with Seed&Spark in order to produce the film this fall, and our campaign has gone live today! We’d love to have you join us in our quest to create trans art. You can click the link below to check out our campaign for yourself:

https://seedandspark.com/fund/slip-short-film

If you want to get involved via a donation, you can claim a sweet reward for yourself! Our personal preference is the $25 incentive, and here are just a few examples of what we have for our donors:

• Personalized Cocktail: $25 supporters receive a cocktail recipe custom made according to your liquor of choice and a romantic getaway or experience you’d like to have.

• Official Playlist: $50 supporters will get the personalized drink recipe (along with the incentives for any other lower-level donations), but will also receive access to our official Spotify playlist of music that inspired the romantic and melancholy atmosphere of Slip.

• Sappy Love Poem: $100 gets you a love poem read aloud by yours truly (that’s writer-director-producer Lara Hill) on our social media. I can’t promise that it’ll be good, but I can guarantee it’ll be silly. You’ll still receive all of the lower-level incentives as well.

If you'd like to support us but just can't afford to support us monetarily (in this economy, totally understandable), that's okay! Here's what you can do instead:

• "Follow" the campaign on Seed&Spark! The more “followers” we have on Seed&Spark’s website, the closer we come to being eligible to rewards and perks. Once we hit 250 "followers," regardless of how many people we have pledging, we'll start unlocking creator discounts for this film and future projects, as well as being featured on the Seed&Spark homepage and attract greater attention.

• Share the following on your social media:

  Help writer/director Lara Hill (@laraonset) and a group of diverse women and trans filmmakers fund their new short film SLIP (@slipthemovie) by contributing to her Seed&Spark campaign today. Support independent filmmaking and trans stories!
  seedandspark.com/fund/slip-short-film
  

• Check out our wish list - if you have access to one of the items or locations on our list, or want to make us lunch for one of our days of production, click the ‘loan’ button on that item and offer us in-kind support!

• Forward this email to anyone you know that might enjoy our film and be interested in our campaign! Especially any friends you suspect have a lil extra cash lying around.

Trans stories told by trans people are more important now than ever. We hope you’ll join us to help bring this dream to life!

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