we (still) need your help

A lot has changed since first posting the original “how much will cost” breakdown almost four years ago. Firstly, the saying ‘everything cost twice as much as you budget’, is kinda’ true: Pedal originally was supposed to cost around $10,000. Having just finished production, it’s safe to say the film is pushing $35,000... still cheap for a film, but more than we first expected. Part of this, well almost 90% of this, is because originally the idea was to bike ourselves across the country, and document it with little cameras and just “see what happens”. Obviously that isn’t the approach we took in the end.

Now we are back from the road, with (at best) a years worth of editing ahead of us (don’t quote me on that). Which requires hard-drive space, pick-up shots, 16mm film processing, time, more hard-drive space, lots of writing, software... and I’m sure, with the way things have always gone in the past: plenty of things we never saw coming.

Making a donation to the project will greatly help us afford the time and equipment we need, as well as pay off the $8,000 we borrowed, during production, to finish the film.

You can use the nifty ChipIn widget above, the IndieGoGo widget below, or check out Pedal’s Amazon WishList. Every little bit is very, very, very appreciated.