Help us reach the final goal to complete our short film PRUNING

Pruning "Dream Sequence" at Riis Park Beach (Film still by Kelley Van Dilla, Anto Astudillo as Polo)

Dear friends, supporters, artists and film community!

It's been more than a year since Kelley Van Dilla and I begun working on our film PRUNING. Today we are asking our community to help us reach our GoFund Me fundraiser campaign final goal to be able to cover post-production expenses and complete our film.

PRUNING is a short narrative film about transitioning, caring for ourselves, each other and the world around us.

Thanks to your amazing support last year we were able to raise a 1/3 of our goal which helped us work with a mostly queer and trans crew, compensate their work, feed our cast and crew during the days of filming and rent the equipment we needed for the film, among other expenses.

Your donation and sharing this campaign with others, is having a direct impact on our project!

Watch the latest campaign video with new film footage from PRUNING and testimonials by our crew!

And here are more pictures from our film shoot last year!

Pruning Cast & Crew (Photos by Ashika Kuruvilla)

Pruning Costume sculptor & Special effects artist: Annie Temmink

Pruning Cast Silvia Fernandez-Stein with Make Up Artist Julia Morgan Fox (Photos by Ari Smith)

Pruning crew (Iman "King" Carter, Kendall Burger, Kelley Van Dilla and Ned Gaynor) filming "dream sequences" (Photo by Ashika Kuruvilla)

Pruning crew (Kelley Van Dilla, Ned Gaynor, Ari Smith) filming apartment sequences (Photo by Ashika Kuruvilla)

Here is our team!

Pruning Crew:

Directors-Writers: Kelley Van Dilla and Anto Astudillo

Camera-DP: Ned Gaynor, Ashika Kuruvilla

Sound and AC: Ashika Kuruvilla, Iman "King" Carter

Sound, lighting & grip: Vander

Costume sculptor & Special effects artist: Annie Temmink

Make-up Artist: Julia Morgan Fox

PA & Boom Op: Iman "King" Carter

PA & BTS: Ari Smith

PA & Kraft Services: Kendall Burger

PA: Mateo Del Campo

Set Producer: Claudia Carrasco

Pre-production coordinator and storyboard: Lupe Campos

Pruning Cast:

Anto Astudillo

Silvia Fernandez-Stein

Kelley Van Dilla

Mecha

As a way to express our immense gratitude, we will be giving donors various shout-outs, credits and behind the scene content, corresponding with donation amounts. Below is a description of each donation’s paired gift (to acknowledge the importance of their support)

Donation of $0-50: Shout out on social media 
Donation of $50 or more: Special thanks on credits of the film 
Donation of $100 or more: Behind-the-scenes content
Donation of $250 or more: Behind-the-scenes content + Invitation to Private Virtual PreRelease Party
Donation of $750 or more: Associate Producer credits 
Donation of $1500 or more: Producer credits
Donation of $4000 or more: Executive Producer credits

Hi, this is Anto. I have created this Newsletter with much love as a way to keep you in the loop about events I am a part of. As independent artists we often do this work without sustainable financial support. I appreciate you taking the time to open this email, read through, support by coming to the events and/or share with others! You can also get involved HERE!