Kickstarter

Searching for communities connected to places.
Seeking a healthy and quality experience of the Americas.
Sharing virtues of localization to advance the global happiness.
Showing cultural perspectives in a film inspired by locations and adventures.

The Plan: We plan to kayak from Juneau, Alaska to Ladysmith, BC, where we will trade our kayaks for bicycles. We will ride the bikes along the coastline of the Pacific Ocean, all the way down to the southern tip of South America. In order to ensure high quality engagement with all the unique places we encounter, we will not set a timeline to this expedition. The trip could potentially take more than two years to complete.

The goal: To capture the experience of truly learning about new places, as opposed to merely seeing them from a traveling tourist’s perspective. This participatory exploration will be expressed in a way that inspires the common folk to do it themselves, in their own ways.

Where is the Money Going?:  All of the kickstarter funds will go directly toward  film expenses.  This includes memory cards and hard drives (that will be sent home periodically throughout the trip), extra batteries, solar charging, audio equipment, etc.  The only way for this project to become a reality is with your backing!!!

These place segments will be interspersed with audio and traveling footage of ourselves. We will not speak directly to the cameras, but will attempt to capture natural conversations and shots that show how we are traveling and some of the lessons we are learning along the way. Again, this is not the story of our impressive journey on this huge trip, but we will include ourselves as the background guides to the film in order to provide a consistently familiar reference frame and to show the temporal progression and flow of the experience. The final product will have the soul-stirring celebration of adventure found in Woodshed Films’ 180° South combined with the persuasive audio-visual poetry found in Godfrey Reggio’s KOYAANISQATSI.