Friends & Family! Iโm producing another feature film and this is our fund raising window! Please be a part of our efforts if you can. Please forward this and help us spread the word. Thank you so much!! https://t.co/0ZEYTwB24O
Dear friends and colleagues,
Iโve been watching about six hundred acting demo reels a day this week. Each one gets my absolute, undivided attention while it plays. A strangerโs demo reel, after all, represents a life, a dream, two parents and a childhood of hopes. You have to care. If you donโt care, why are you in the arena?
Weโre making our second feature film here at Askari. Itโs our first one since I was injured. In a way itโs a triumph just to get to this point. Thereโs no recovery, exactly, but thereโs definitely such thing as being as stubborn as hell. Iโm crawling toward the sun with a knife between my teeth.
AFTER AFTER is an American ensemble comedy about young people coming into their own in the tradition of THE BIG CHILL and METROPOLITAN. We wrote it over almost a year with the goal of capturing beauty, friendship through a heartfelt zillennial lens before this moment in history passes.
We are pouring our own time, labor, and money into this film, and shooting in our own home, too. Still, three weeksโ pay for a full cast and crew is outside the realm of personal household finance. To that end, we are fundraising through Seed & Spark to finance the gap, and I hope youโll consider joining in.
The film is budgeted. The plan is clear. If we can raise at least $50,382 by August 10, 2026, we have a go picture and weโll shoot in September.
There are a number of backer rewards available, including an extremely rare opportunity to get your own bespoke Cairo Smith short story, but ultimately I hope that you will support this project because you believe in what I do and you believe in a better aesthetic regime for American art.
Even just a follow on Seed & Spark gets us closer to qualifying for generous post-production grants, so please click through and follow the campaign. This is the biggest and most ambitious artistic undertaking weโve ever embarked on, and I really do appreciate your exceptional support. I think we can do this.
Link below.
All my best,
Cairo
San Japan would like to welcome voice-over guest @GetMeSmith to #sanjapan17.
Around the time the Earth was cooling, Chris started his VO career on the original Robotech and Captain Harlock series' as third-guy-from-the-left-who-screams-when-he-blows-up. These days, he voices characters with actual names - names like (big inhale) Hantengu, Luke Skywalker, Kite, Ibiki, Bright Noa, Mewtwo, Joker, Superman, Kittan, Tom DuPain, Spandam, Okumura, Peter Soyuz, Katasuke Tono, Wonderweiss, Jijimon, Sen Hatsumi, Molag Bal, Razum Dar, Annoyotron, Ryo, Raizer Phenix, Albus, Rufus, and about two thousand more.
Youโve heard him in shows like Demon Slayer, Phineas and Ferb, Miraculous Ladybug, Gurren Lagann, Attack on Titan, Hunter X Hunter, and One Piece, and in games like Detective Pikachu, Starfield, Lego Batman, Elder Scrolls, Fire Emblem, Persona 5, Final Fantasy, and World of Warcraft. Youโve even seen his face in games like Mafia and Medal of Honor.
Following in the footsteps of one of his mentors, he narrates Star Wars books for Disney. And for the past decade, heโs portrayed the rugged adventurer Hank Johnson in the worldwide augmented-reality game Ingress.
San Japan would like to welcome voice-over guest @GetMeSmith to #sanjapan17.
Around the time the Earth was cooling, Chris started his VO career on the original Robotech and Captain Harlock series' as third-guy-from-the-left-who-screams-when-he-blows-up. These days, he voices characters with actual names - names like (big inhale) Hantengu, Luke Skywalker, Kite, Ibiki, Bright Noa, Mewtwo, Joker, Superman, Kittan, Tom DuPain, Spandam, Okumura, Peter Soyuz, Katasuke Tono, Wonderweiss, Jijimon, Sen Hatsumi, Molag Bal, Razum Dar, Annoyotron, Ryo, Raizer Phenix, Albus, Rufus, and about two thousand more.
Youโve heard him in shows like Demon Slayer, Phineas and Ferb, Miraculous Ladybug, Gurren Lagann, Attack on Titan, Hunter X Hunter, and One Piece, and in games like Detective Pikachu, Starfield, Lego Batman, Elder Scrolls, Fire Emblem, Persona 5, Final Fantasy, and World of Warcraft. Youโve even seen his face in games like Mafia and Medal of Honor.
Following in the footsteps of one of his mentors, he narrates Star Wars books for Disney. And for the past decade, heโs portrayed the rugged adventurer Hank Johnson in the worldwide augmented-reality game Ingress.
@cairoasmith Eight days a week is just a declaration that he loves her more than logic can dictate. As for nine in the afternoonโฆ It needs to go home. Itโs drunk.