About this project

WHAT’S INDELIBLE ABOUT

The INDELIBLE Creative Team consists of Harlemites Randall Dottin (director) and Melanie RW Oram (Producer), LA resident Mikki del Monico (writer), and Upstate New York resident Kevin Craig West (associate producer) who have joined together not just to make a movie but to complete a mission: to change the way young women of color see their world. By combining their love of arts and activism the INDELIBLE Creative Team desires to tell a compelling story about how a Black woman perseveres despite tremendous personal, professional, and spiritual odds. The next project milestone is a shoot that is planned for December 2010 and we need your help to 1) accomplish this task successfully and 2) put us one step closer to our ultimate goal: completing this film.

INDELIBLE tells the story of El Bonds, a leading African American geneticist who discovers that her teenage son, Adrian has developed Yeagar’s, a disease that has already claimed the life of her husband. While El searches for a way to mitigate Adrian’s symptoms, she opts to hide his prognosis from him. El’s impressive work on Yaeger’s earns her a prestigious science award, but her mid-size pharmaceutical company, Sun Pharmaceuticals, decides to pull the funding on her Yaeger’s research. The Sun CEO directs El to focus her efforts on developing a diet pill —a potentially more profitable endeavor.

As the clock runs out on her financial backing, El is running out of time to complete the most important work of her life: to save her son by finding a cure for Yaeger’s. El continues her research in secret, gets locked out of her lab, and joins a competitive pharmaceutical firm to continue her quest. When all hope appears to be lost because El faces scientific dead ends, corporate roadblocks, and Adrian’s rapidly escalating symptoms, she must be willing to find the courage to take the risks necessary to reach her goal: to save her son from dying and rid the world of this terrible disease. Ultimately she is only able to find answers when she shuns self-reliance and develops her faith.

WHY WE WANT TO MAKE THIS FILM

INDELIBLE will mark the first time a Black female will play the lead role as a scientist in a feature film. INDELIBLE will be part of an era of firsts; a Latina Supreme Court Justice and a Black President.

El, as the protagonist of this story, serves as an inspiration to young girls as close as Harlem and as far away as Haiti. El demonstrates that it is possible for them to achieve unprecedented results in the areas of math and science by holding steadfast to a dream and working incessantly to transform that vision into a reality.

Like El, the INDELIBLE Creative Team desires to transform INDELIBLE from the dream created by words on a page into the reality of images on a screen. We have shot sixteen (16) days of this film and it is 70% completed. Our intention is to raise $11,000 during this KickStarter campaign so that we can complete a three (3) day shoot in December 2010. This shoot will allow us to get significantly closer to our ultimate goal: completing this film by Spring 2011.

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WHY THE INDELIBLE CREATIVE TEAM IS DOING A KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN

We are making an independent film that tells a non traditional tale. And we’re doing it without the safety net of Big Studio resources and dollars—but we still need money. Raising this $11,000 and completing this 3-day shoot will give us a tremendous push towards the finish line for this project.

LIke El, we're taking a leap of faith. Kickstarter is an all or nothing proposition. We will only collect the money you pledge if we're able to meet our fundraising goal by our November 21, 2010 deadline. If you're able to help us we've created some fun, film-related backer awards. However, we will only fulfill these backer awards if we're able to meet our fundraising goal.

Many people who have heard about INDELIBLE are excited about the project and moved by the story. We wanted to channel that excitement and give supporters of the project a way to contribute to the making of this film. We recognize that we cannot finish this film on our own. We will only be able to complete this 3-day shoot with the help of our community.

Join us as we build our film movement to revolutionize the way women of color are portrayed on the big screen. Please donate to the project today – even a donation as small as $1 can help. Spread the word about INDELIBLE to the people on your social network. Help insure that El Bonds and INDELIBLE will encourage young girls of color globally to choose the uncommon path, to pursue a career in the areas of math, science, or technology, and to ultimately change their world.

The INDELIBLE Creative Team