James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
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Started by Aaron Yonda October 5th, 2011
Chad Vader explains who he is and what we want to do.
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ANGRY CUSTOMER: "I bought these chips here and they're stale!"
CHAD VADER: "Yes. Release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me!"
Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager is a web series starring Chad Vader, brother of Darth and not-so-successful manager of the Empire Market grocery store. Chad has the same voice and the same suit as his Darth, but unfortunately not quite the same charisma and ability to strike fear into people. But he tries. Chad is fully aware the phrase "The customer is always right," does not hold up in a court of law.
Chad Vader and his fellow cashiers and stockboys star in this spoof that draws on Star Wars but also tells its own unique story and has interesting and original characters that we have been developing over the course of 3 seasons.
Click here to see previous seasons:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL528026B4F7B34094
And our Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/blamesocietyfilms
We want to make Season 4 of the series. Season 4 will be as many episodes as we can make with the total funding we receive. This will be between 5-10 depending on how far we can stretch the budget. We plan on including a few "prequel" episodes as well as two special episodes where Chad's brother Darth Vader makes a visit. The prequel reveals how Chad's interview for the job of Day Shift Manager went (not good), and why rival Clint hates him so much.
There are between 15-25 crew and actors who work on every episode of Chad Vader. In total there are over 230 man-hours spent in pre-production, production, editing, scoring, etc to make it shine. We've never been able to pay our crew and actors very much, if anything, for their work on past seasons. We really want to pay them this season! We also want to do some great special effects, get some really cool props, and we want to keep up the high production value we've had over the course of the show.
Youtube has more or less abandoned independent content creators to focus on other things so in order to continue Chad Vader we need your help! This may be the final season so we would love to finish it off in a grand style.
Thank you for considering being a part of the Chad Vader legacy!
