Hi, Im 16-year-old filmmaker, Ben Kadie. My previous eight films have appeared in film festivals in India, Brazil, Australia, & Canada. In the US, they have won more than 20 awards including best Teen Film at the Newport Beach Film Festival and Grand Prize 3-Minute Masterpiece at the Seattle International Film Festival. My film web site is http://slugco.com.

With your help, Id like to tell a story about love and ocean storms.

ALONE TOGETHER starts with a terrifying shipwreck. Brendan, a teenage boy, finds himself stranded on an island with Eloise, the girl of his secret dreams. As their mutual need for each other pushes them together, they fall in love. Yet Brendan worries that if they leave the island Eloise won't need him or love him anymore.

The film will be about 17-minutes long. Well shoot about seven days, mostly in August, and then Ill work about six months on editing and special effects. Well film in the Seattle area (including under Lake Washington) and one overnight trip to the beaches near Deception Pass. Well also shoot one morning on the 100-year-old tugboat Arthur Foss.

The money raised will go for

         Hotel & Transportation for Deception Pass

         Costumes (wet and dry sets)

         Props

         Stretch Goal: Money to license professional songs for the films sound track.