About this project
He grew up in America's most-hateful family and spent his life running from his past. Now he's ready to face it head on.
We're working to raise a minimum of $50k to finish and market this film. We are hoping to not only reach this goal, but to exceed it, in order to hit the film festival circuit, and create all of the deliverables needed for distribution. A huge thanks in advance to everyone who is willing to stand with Nate against hate!
'Nate vs Hate' is a documentary about the life of Nate Phelps, the son of Pastor Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church. Nate escaped the church and family on his 18th birthday, and spent the next few decades adjusting to life and his place in it. This film follows Nate as he travels back home to Topeka for the first time in 30 years. On his arrival he gives an emotional speech to hundreds in Topeka, many from the LGBT community. Later in the film Nate even has an opportunity to confront some of his siblings who are still a part of the church and openly speak out against him.
This is not just another documentary about the antics of the Westboro Baptist Church: we're not here to give them free publicity for their message of hate, which they obviously crave. Those documentaries have been made.
This is Nate's story, about an abusive childhood, his escape, his struggle to come to terms with his loss of family, and how he's turned all of this experience into positve action. All of this has given Nate has an extremely unique perspective on critical thinking, religion, and the LGBT community.
Through this process we've really gotten to know Nate, and feel his story will inspire and change those who watch the documentary.
Post-Production
We're working to raise funds to complete post-production on the film. We still need to edit, mix sound, compose music, and so on.
Check out the pledge section on this page to see the rewards we're offering for your contributions, including DVDs, posters, special thanks in the film, premiere tickets and more.
Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who has helped this far, and welcome aboard to all of you who will be instrumental to getting this film made. We really couldn't do it without you.
Once we meet our goal we can resume post production and would expect to have the film in the can around February of 2012.
Visit the website at NATEvsHATE.com
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on November 28, 2011.
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MAUREEN NORTON, Producer
Maureen Norton has been working in the film industry since 1996, and has been independently producing, consulting and overseeing films since 2005. She has gained great respect in the industry and is often called upon to help films in distress. Previously Norton served as VP of Operations at Trademark Entertainment working closely with sales agents, banks and bond companies to complete financing on several films. Prior to trademark Norton was the Executive of Post Production at Franchise Pictures. There she oversaw the post production and marketing of twenty-five films and trailers. Norton started her career assisting Andrew Stevens and Ashok Amritraj at Royal Oaks Entertainment. Norton’s attention to detail and her passion for filmmaking was quickly noticed and she was promoted to Director of Distribution within three months. There she would oversee the International/Domestic servicing of a 100+ film library and a slate of at least ten in-house trailers per year. Norton was also in charge of the key art campaigns for the films. She would work closely with sales agents, banks and bond companies and would assist with the collection of production loans.
JOSH TIMONEN, Director
Josh is a designer and programmer, and has been involved in many aspects of multimedia creation including graphic design, coding, filmmaking, screenwriting, music composition, sound design and more. He has worked on several Hollywood feature films in various capacities, including director, cinematographer, editor, main title designer, and composer.
