Your Stage : "My Father's Keeper" Initial Funding by Elmer J. Howard

About me: IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3999581/ My name is Elmer J. Howard and I'm an Actor, Producer, and Director in Film, TV, and Theater whose motto is: "Changing The World One Production at a Time". Entertaining has been my passion since I was a teenager making short films wowing and exciting family and friends. I got my baptism by fire into the entertainment world by landing my first job and first exposure by being a craft services assistant on the Disney film "Flubber" with Robin Williams. After taking a 12 year detour, I returned to filmmaking in 2010 when I got introduced to the independent filmmaking community in Phoenix, starting my production company Thrive Productions, LLC that year as well. I have a passion and a gift for telling stories through a visual medium. Making a positive impact on my audience by getting them to think and challenging their beliefs while entertaining them, fuels my passion. The Story: I'm producing and directing my first feature film titled "My Father's Keeper", the highly emotionally charged story of three generations of fathers & sons: expectations, disappointments, and bitterness, the women that got hurt along the way, and the great wealth whose accumulation created as many problems as it solved. Before we can even go into preproduction, I need to hire a Line Producer and a Lawyer to create the budget and contracts for us to raise the funds for preproduction. I'm offering Reward Levels for donations and if you want to become an investor, please contact me directly. This film is meant to make the audience think about the relationships in their lives and remember what really matters in life and make better choices. My short film "Momma Knows Best... Right? was just picked up for worldwide distribution with Adler & Associates. Our Team: Dr. Kevin IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5129676/ Dr. Kevin Ross Emery was born on the 4th of July, and according to him this is what it means to be born on the 4th of July, “I came in with a bang, I will go out with a bang, and I will bang my way all the way through”. By sixth grade he knew that we wanted to be, a writer. He began with poetry and short stories. His poetry began winning him awards at the age of 17 and in 2004 he won a lifetime achievement award. Though he can’t read or write music, he began playing with songs in his late teens and gave his first shot at a Broadway musical. With the bulk of it done, including the script, some songs, and even some choreography, the script and all that went with it got accidentally thrown away and he never had the heart to start over again. By the age of 40 he had several books out, hundreds of poetry pieces, several songs, and published, under the pen name Ross Bartel Buzzel, both fantasy fiction and science fiction books. Since then he has written (and co-written) a TV pilot, a movie script, and a one-woman show stage play that was recently adapted to film. He wrote the song, “Mama Knows Best” for a movie. He has taken his 24 years of helping people professionally and used it to create three dimensional characters with mind bending plot twist, “as life has… sometimes”, he says. Chad Braker IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5853626 Chad works as Unit Production Manager, 1st Assistant Director, as well as Co-Producer for several different TV Shows and Commercials. He specializes in Logistics and Management, focusing on bringing the best crew to the production and making sure everything runs smoothly on the set. He has worked as 1st Assistant Director on the Feature Film Monsoon as well as Co-Producer for the Reality TV Show Lo-Lo's Welcome to the Coop. Chad is a Graduate of the Art Institute of Phoenix and continues working to improve his management and legal skills in feature films and commercial production. Tray Goodman IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329252/ Tray is the founder of G.C.M. Media and our sister sites Crushing Your Box® and Inside Creative Minds Media. He is also a Creative Producer/Director, Public Speaker, Author, and world traveler. His range of knowledge and experience in the media world is always a valuable asset to our productions. To Tray, success is all about managing those boxes we live in every day - using creativity, persistence, and teamwork to become a "Box Crusher®," as he likes to say. Tray has traveled to more than 40 countries as cameraman and director for a variety of productions and documentaries and in his personal pursuit of world knowledge. As production manager/senior director at Phoenix Channel 11 for more than 20 years, Tray was recognized with numerous media awards. He has worked on thousands of multi-camera live or live-to-tape productions for politicians and major networks such as the NFL Network, ESPN, Fox, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, History Channel, A&E and E!Television. He is currently a member of the Regional Rocky Mountain Emmy Board of Governors. When it comes to an independent artist who is always committed to quality productions and always striving to start the next project, Tray is the guy. His personal projects include the Independent Films Unfair Game and Forever Midnight, the PBS show Inside Creative Minds, and Phoenix TV shows Cool in Your Zip and Great Food, Good Neighbors. Tray is also Executive Producer of the award-winning sci-fi comedy web-series Voyage Trekkers Tammy McDaniel IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2373342/ Tamara McDaniel is a Phoenix-based producer, actress and voice over artist, as well as the founder of the award-winning Phoenix Independent Film Makers Group (PIFMG). Tamara is most recently a producer on Alien’s From Uranus” a sci fi comedy due out in 2016 starting Grant Cramer (of Killer Clowns from Outer Space) and Dee Wallace (of ET and Cujo), as well as “Margarine Wars” with Robert Loggia (of “Independence Day”) and Doris Roberts (of “Everyone Loves Raymond”); as well as “Hatfield and McCoy” and is currently a producer on “Fatal”, and “ Girl! Wired”. Tamara has also produced numerous commercials and short films, including “The Nephila” starring Ellen Muth (of “Dead Like Me”) and “Family 2.0” starring Christopher Atkins (of “Blue Lagoon”) as well as several episodic television shows. Prior to her work in film, Tamara received a BS in International Business from Western International University and worked in the Utility industry for 21 years, 15 of those at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, where she ran multi-million dollar projects and designed nuclear engineering processes and procedures. Rusty Case IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143259/ Mr. Case, also known as William Case, began working for NBC in New York in 1985. He owned and operated an organic food distribution business out of New York with 40 employees and generating $12MM in annual sales. After eight years in the distribution business Mr. Case was ready to return to entertainment and in 1994 became Director of Systems Engineering for Cinergy FX/Mass.Illusion. In 1996 Mr. Case was hired by Sony Pictures Imageworks and became a Sr. Systems Architect for the development of the multi-thousand processor Imageworks facility in Culver City. In 2000 Mr. Case was hired by Warner Bros./Eon Entertainment as CTO for the Wachowski Brothers and after that ran the Linda Vista Hospital Location Studio in Boyle Heights from 2004-2008 where he was also director of business and project development for the 400-unit Buena Vista Lofts condominium development, thereafter becoming Chief Commercial Underwriter for the Platinum Capital Group in Manhattan Beach where he interfaced with numerous commercial banks and capital finance companies. Mr. Case has worked on many high profile Visual FX movies including The “Matrix II & III”, “Spiderman”, “The Hollowman”, “Stuart Little”, “Godzilla”, “Contact”, “Starship Troopers”, “Ghost and the Darkness” and “Judge Dredd” to name a few. Mr. Case has recently formed a group that has executed a ten (10) picture deal with Shoreline Entertainment and is a producer for Stan Lee Media Studios, Ten Films Entertainment and the Phoenix Independent Film Makers Group. Mr. Case has most recently been a producer on “Margarine Wars”, “Hatfield and McCoy”, "Aliens From Uranus", “Fatal”, and “ Girl! Wired”. Your Donation: Your donation will go to funding some initial preproduction costs such as Line Producer, Entertainment Lawyer, Script Analysis, etc. We are offering a two donation rewards; for a minimum donation of $50 you'll receive a "Thank You" mention in the credits of the film. For a minimum donation of $100, you'll receive a "Thank You" mention in the credits of the film, plus one (1) FREE ticket to the Phoenix premiere of the film. Of course, any donation amount is greatly appreciated. If you want information on becoming an investor, please contact us. https://www.gofundme.com/MyFathersKeeper