About ten months ago my newly founded production company was looking for its first production. We thought for sure that the project we chose would have something to do with our main focus: Living History. The TV series I wrote was the reason that we had all come together, but the time didn’t seem right to launch our show. We didn’t have the resources or the connections necessary to build and maintain a thirteen episode season.
Earlier that summer I had written a prequel to the series called Finding our Founders. Naturally we thought this might be our first project. We found that we couldn’t raise the $125,000 necessary to shoot it. We didn’t want to go back and try to shoot a short film because that would have felt like a step back. What we wanted to do was a feature length project that embodied who we were as…
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