updates

One of our biggest dreams for The Elements of Mutual Aid has always been to bring the ideas in the series to life through animation. So we’re so excited to announce that the incredibly talented animator Maria Medem has agreed to join our project. We are beginning to raise funds to cover the costs! We’re raising up to $10,000, which will cover 4.5 minutes of animation. Animated sequences will be scattered throughout the series and

Hi friends, it’s been a very full 4 months since we finished up our fundraiser and last wrote to you all. As compensation for how long its been, we’ll start this update with a trailer we’re just now releasing and that we’re *very* excited to share for your viewing pleasure.  We made this one for a grant we applied for. It’s so good to see just a few voices from this series start to come

Dear friends, we are so proud, grateful, and excited to say that we have made our full goal! Last night our fundraiser reached $19,700 and we’re in the middle of finalizing a donation of $300+ from at least one more group. We are currently on the road to finish filming- your pledges are filling our gas tank. By August we plan to begin editing what we’ve gathered. This fundraiser has been such an amazing collective

Hello friends! We are just two weeks away from the end of our fundraiser! Thanks to all of your support, we’ve raised over 70% of our goal and have just under $6,000 left to raise. And we only need $1,500 to reach the required 80% of our goal that allows us to secure all our pledges. We’re excited to announce a new incentive. If we reach our $20,000 goal, we’ll be printing stickers and sending

This week we have some really exciting news about The Elements of Mutual Aid. Yesterday, March 20, we launched our post-production fundraiser, and we’re already awestruck by the amount of generosity and support folks have offered. In just 24 hours, we’ve already reached 26% of our goal. A lot of folks donating and encouraging their friends to donate are people we’re close with and who are familiar with this project, its vision, and how we’ve

We recently came to the end of our 2022 filming tour and are nested up in Houston for the next few months. Here, we’re working on prepping and reviewing our footage, launching our next crowdfunding campaign, and applying for a few grants. By April, we’ll be on the road again for a final 2-3 months of filming.  Over 8 months we’ve interviewed 15 groups and another 13 individuals. Our comrades have gifted us a lot