Donate to IndieGoGo Life fundraiser and help Courtney get a matching donation!
Courtney Trouble’s Art School Fund Raiser
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I have a week left on my fundraiser!
A generous anonymous donor says that if I can get my Indie GoGo to $5,000 by the end of the funding period, they’ll match whatever amount I’ve gotten to by 50%! That means I’ll get an additional $2,500 at minimum, and even more on top of that if we get past $5,000.
We’re at $3,257 right now, which is 65% of the $5,000 target, and we’ve got a week to go before the funding period ends. Whew.
I know we can do this- but it means we need to bring in $250 a day. This is totally doable, but I need your help!
This year in the TROUBLEfilms headquarters, I have been entrenched in deep, mutually educational, heavy collaborating with Kitty Stryker, Chelsea Poe, Ajapornfilms, James Darling, Jacqueline Mary, Tobi Hill-Meyer, April Flores, and Cinnamon Maxxine. This is the kind of dream team I have been fantasizing about for a lifetime in this industry, and it’s such a strong enough crew that I’ve finally decided to take a step down, invest in their ideas, and enrich my life in ways other than the daily grind of running a porn production company.
I’m devoting the next two or three years of my life to grad school, getting an MFA at the California College of the Arts, to get better at what I’ve always wanted to do – to make art that makes a difference. I’ve been working on projects outside of the adult industry- work like one piece, Apricot 4 Apricot, which screened at the 2015 National Queer Arts Festival as part of Hanky Code: The Movie. I’ve also finished a music video, going up this week, for talented local artist Micahtron.
I start school in August, so the time is ticking fast for me to secure the funding for my first tuition bill and make sure that we have set up the workflow for TROUBLEfilms to produce in my absence as a commercial director.
While I do that, my company’s money will be going to funding queer, trans, POC, plus size, and disabled creative geniuses in what I can only describe as a modern day feminist pop art porn Warhol//Factory situation. Everyone is making groundbreaking, gorgeous, commercially viable ART and I want to make sure that these things get made while I continue to have the ability to fund them. And, when I get my MFA, I’ll be able to teach people for a living!
So please reshare/tweet/ask your friends/increase your donation if you can! If I can get to this matching goal, it will pay off greatly- not just for me, but for the TROUBLEfilms family.
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Courtney Trouble’s Art School Fund Raiser
