We Have Ourselves A Show Babyyyyy!
Welcome to another edition of the Fred & Dan Blog! Our mission with Fred&Dan Productions and this blog has always been to make people think in ways they’ve never done before - to spark creativity and facilitate conversation in unconventional ways. A place where you can open up your email and have a bit of creativity to take with you into your day or week!
Let’s start off this week with an update on the never-ending writer’s strike.
Last week, August 9th, marked the 100th day of the strike. This strike has now surpassed the 2007 strike in length and if it makes it past 153 days it will be the longest writers strike in history. But, we’re feeling cautiously hopeful. As we mentioned last time we talked about the strike, the AMPTP and the WGA were planning to meet and they did! The meeting was described as having “mixed results” but the two groups met three times this week for negotiations and might be meeting again today. At least this is way more progress than 100 days of silence (on the AMPTP part, the writers have been very loud on socials and on the picket).
Now for some very exciting news! Big Oops is 100% funded!!!!!! Wooo!!! Pop the champagne and call out of work, we have ourselves a show babyyy. We not only reached our IndieGoGo goal of $20,000 but surpassed it!! We are in awe and so incredibly grateful.
We truly could not have done this without the amazing support of our community. Thank you, thank you, thank you every single one of you who reads this blog and donated to our campaign. It means the world that during this time of uncertainty in the industry, we know we have the support of our community and you want to see the stuff we make. *cue the happy tears*
Stay tuned for the next steps of the project! We are wrapping up on summer but entering a very busy fall. We start shooting in less than a month (!) and we are co-directing a full episode! So stick around for set photos and stories that are sure to make you laugh and maybe even inspire you to go make some art. We will share here and on our instagram.
Next week, we have such an exciting announcement for a project that we have truly been working on all summer we CANNOT WAIT to share it with you!
Until then, stay cool and enjoy the smiling faces of 6 very happy producers whose series is fully funded!
