Welcome to a special edition newsletter of the Fred&Dan Productions Blog! We have an exciting announcement today and couldn’t wait until Friday to tell you. 

We often talk about our journey as screenwriters but fun fact, Fred&Dan is also a production house! Along with getting our writing out there, we love to support other artists creating their own work. With that we are excited to announce that we are teaming up with our good friend Tyler Peterson, AKA Big Cookie Productions, to produce the webseries Big Oops! We made a short announcement of this a few weeks ago, but the name of the project has changed and we have even more info to share now!

This project falls under something called a micro budget film which is just fancy talk for truly indie, i.e. this type of project is allowed during the strike. We’re off the grid! It’s metal! Since corporate greed has shut down the rest of the industry, we are taking matters into our own hands! Because the show must go on, and just like Tinkerbell, if artists don’t receive attention they will die. 

Last summer, a cohort of our good friends and writing group got together to produce and film the webseries Jennifer & Chicken, which is currently showing in festivals all over the world and even winning awards! Now the same group is back at it again to bring Big Oops to life. 

As Giovana and Janette we are joining this project as Executive Producers, which will be in association with Fred&Dan Productions. For those who are new to the world of making movies, producers are the people who bring the team together. Along with the 4 other producers on the project we all have been in the throws of casting, location scouting, permitting, and script revisions. This phase is called pre-production and we are now entering our (drum roll please!) fundraising phase!!! 

In response to what’s going on with AMPTP, we’re truly making this a grassroots effort and reaching out to our community to make art during a time where it feels nearly impossible to do so. We are fundraising through indiegogo to make Big Oops happen. We want to invite our friends, family, community, and supporters to be part of this fun project by donating! No contribution is too small and we have some really fun perks to convince you!  Obviously, not everyone can donate but we wanted to extend this to our community who has been so supportive of us. Even a share on social media or sending the project to someone else goes such a long way in helping Big Oops come to life! 

HERE IS THE LINK to indiegogo! And here is the link to the Big Oops Instagram and Facebook page. 

Expect further updates on the project here on our blog and also on our socials as we produce and film Big Oops this fall. We’ll be working on this along with publishing our zine, finishing a few scripts in the works, bringing you our weekly newsletter, and of course we always have a few other things cooking. 

Thanks again and we love you!