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

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

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

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

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