Kokomo (Short Film)

Hi! My name is Elijah Gordon (He/Him/His). I am a senior at The New School and this summer I am directing, producing, and writing a new short film called Kokomo!

Kokomo follows Benny, an aspiring rapper who wants to impress his girlfriend by making a gangster rap song, the problem at hand is that he's not a gangster nor a good rapper so he decides to get a ghostwriter. This twenty-minute comedy pokes fun of hip hop/youth culture, while displaying themes of young insecure people trying to find security.

Kokomo is currently in Pre-Production. With your help, in one week this project/dream will be fully funded, and Kokomo can be submitted to film festivals, be a proof of concept for a television pilot, and be released for all of you to see!

As a storyteller who's POC I am passionate about telling grounded and real stories about the human experience. In particular, I love writing stories of people going through day-to-day life and not suffering. I feel the entertainment industry/culture is obsessed with visualizing racial trauma with all-minority casts when that shouldn't be the only norm. Yes, a lot of those stories are pivotal, but why can't there be a show/movie in the United States like Seinfeld or Horrible Bosses that happens to have a black, Hispanic, or Asian cast?

Budget For The Film:

$1300 - Gear

$850 - Travel

$1450 - Food/Drink a.k.a Grub.

$1100 - Props

$1300 - Post-Production

Total: $6,000

Cast/Crew:

Myles Green ( @_mylesgreen_) as Benny.

Ephraim K. Asante ( @dearkofii) as Terrence.

Isabelle Charlot ( @isabellecharlot) as Honey.

Ryan Murray ( @ryanmurray_) as Ty.

M. Nelson Woodard is the Associate Producer of Kokomo.

Nina-Simone Crawford is the Director of Photography of Kokomo.

Cast/Crew Previous Works:

Down below are images of the cast/crew's past projects!

Final Words:

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We have 32 days to get this done, thanks for checking out this campaign, and most importantly thanks for making my dreams come true!