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Other Almosts

Here's to what could have been.

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Sending Some Love

Sending Some Love

Hope everyone is surrounding themselves with the people, animals, and food that they love today! Since we love you, our supporters and fans, we wanted to send out a Valentine's Day update about Other Almosts and our short film slate. First, Other Almosts was a quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft Film Fund Grant Program, a program that allows us to compete for up to $30,000! While we didn't advance any further in the competition, it's great to get some recognition, get the film

Today's The Day

Today's The Day

Let's take a minute to be honest here. This campaign has done so much. We've come such a long way and we're proud of the work we've done, the community we've cultivated, and the interest we've generated for this film. We've got 24 hours left to make this film happen. We've got 24 hours left to move into the Top 10, become a finalist, pitch the Duplass Brothers, and win the Seed&Spark Hometown Heroes rally. We have 24 hours before the campaign ends and we take stock of where w

Our Final Week

Oh. My. Goodness. We are days away from the end of our month-long crowdfunding campaign. We can't believe it. It's been a crazy month, filled with ups and down and rights and lefts and pretty much any other direction we can go in. We started with a website, a Facebook, and a dream: to run a successful crowdfunding campaign, win Hometown Heroes, and make a movie in Sycamore. We had a little over 100 people following us on Facebook when we launched our Seed&Spark page all the w

Sycamore Shows Its Support!

Sycamore Shows Its Support!

Our film community is growing every day! We wanted to take the opportunity to showcase some of our newest community partners, and share our thanks that they are supporting Other Almosts. PJ's Courthouse Tavern Housed in a building built during the reconstruction of Sycamore after a fire in 1870, PJ's Courthouse Tavern has a love for the history of Sycamore. Opened in 1994, PJ's hosts live music, special events, and sporting event viewings. With 15 different types of beers on

The Community Grows!

The Community Grows!

Our film community is growing every day! We wanted to take the opportunity to showcase some of our newest community partners, and share our thanks that they are supporting Other Almosts. B95 B95 is one of the major radio station servicing Sycamore and the DeKalb County area. Apart from reporting on local news and promoting local businesses, they live up to their motto "From DeKalb County, For DeKalb County" by providing scholarships for high school students headed to college

Welcome to October

Welcome to October

If you're from Sycamore, then you know all about one of our dearest traditions -- the Pumpkin Festival. If you've never been to Sycamore in October... you're missing out. The Pumpkin Festival was started by Wally Thurow, when in 1956 he decided to decorate his front lawn with painted pumpkins to highlight the fun and creativity of Halloween. It wasn't until 1962 that the Pumpkin Festival became an official celebration! Now, every year, the front lawn of the courthouse is live

Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight

Our film community is growing every day! We wanted to take the opportunity to showcase some of our newest community partners, and share our thanks that they are supporting Other Almosts. Ollie's Frozen Custard You know it's a sure sign of spring when Ollie's opens every year (never mind that there may still be a couple inches of snow on the ground). Family friendly and with more flavors than you can count, Ollie's has been serving the Sycamore community since 1985. A tiny bui

The Halfway Point

The Halfway Point

We're nearly halfway through our crowdfunding campaign and it's been a crazy couple of weeks! With a campaign that started slow, we've been building a lot of steam. Last week we were at the Spartan football game on Friday (a Sycamore victory!) recruiting more followers, handing out passes to the Sycamore State Theater, and getting people excited about the film. We passed 300 followers that night -- way to show that Sycamore pride! On Monday, our writer/director made an appear

Our Film Community

Our Film Community

One of the reasons we were so excited when the Hometown Heroes rally was announced was because we wanted to show what a phenomenal town and community Sycamore is. Hometown Heroes gave us a chance to make our film, yes, but more importantly it gave us a chance to make the film where we wanted, with the people we wanted. It gave us a chance to have the community pull together behind us. We wanted to take today to highlight some of the incredible community partners we have in Sy

One Week In

One Week In

We're one week into our crowdfunding campaign and already we're more than 15% of the way to our goal! We couldn't have done it without you - and we've got so much more to do! We have just shy of 200 followers on our Seed&Spark page, but across all of our social media (that's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and right here on the website) we have more followers than that! While we love all of you following us on those platforms, remember - your follow only counts if it's on our S

Campaign Kickoff

Campaign Kickoff

Today's the day! Our crowdfunding campaign for Other Almosts is live on Seed&Spark right now! Some of you may be new to crowdfunding, and some of you may be new to Seed&Spark (we were before we started this project!) so we've put together a helpful little guide below about the many ways in which you can help make this film a roaring success. First, head to our film's page at www.seedandspark.com/fund/otheralmosts. The top of the page should look like this: That's us! That's o

Join Our Team

Join Our Team

We are one week out from the launch of our crowdfunding campaign, and we couldn't be more excited (or more nervous). We wanted you to be among the first to see our pitch video, a little peak behind the scenes as to what we're hoping Other Almosts will look like, why we're making it, and what you can do to help us out. Check out our pitch video (which will go live with our Seed&Spark page next week), and share it with everyone! The big launch comes next week, and we want to ge

Hometown Heroes

Hometown Heroes

One of the most exciting opportunities with Other Almosts is one of its first! We're going to be running our first crowdfunding campaign on Seed&Spark, which is a crowdfunding and distribution platform for independent films, tv series, and web series. It is a unique platform, because its focus is on filmmakers - and it was founded by women! Seed&Spark not only hosts crowdfunding campaigns, but works with filmmakers to help them achieve their goals. They offer a free online cl

Sycamore, Illinois

Sycamore, Illinois

Other Almosts takes place in Sycamore, Illinois. The best way to describe Sycamore for those individuals from a big city is that if you start in Chicago, and take the train all the way to the end of the line, you still have to drive another half hour to reach Sycamore. (They tend to laugh at that, much the way suburban soccer teams would laugh when they got lost between cornfields.) The best way to describe Sycamore to those who appreciate small town charm, even if they've ne

Other Almosts: The Story

Other Almosts: The Story

Emma is going blind. Forced to take medical leave from school, she returns to her small town and reconnects with her high school friends, all of whom are struggling with their own demons. The future uncertain, the four attempt to recreate their past to pretend - for as long as possible - that everything is okay. Emma's ambitious. She's got dreams to be a physicist, unraveling the mysteries of the universe, but they're upended when she is diagnosed with Leber's hereditary opti

Hello from the Writer/Director!

Hello from the Writer/Director!

Thanks for checking out Other Almosts! I'm so passionate about this film and I can't wait to see it on the screen. Other Almosts has been a part of my life - as a screenplay - for nearly four years. It was the first film I wrote upon entering my MFA program at the University of Southern California. I had just moved to Los Angeles from Illinois, where I grew up, attended undergrad... and pretty much did everything. Los Angeles - if you're not familiar - is quite different from

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