Indie filmmaker Shane Vader is working on a teaser for his film ‘High Powers.’ Like his role model Sami Rami, Vader wanted to use the teaser to secure funding for a feature film, but Vader needed to raise a modest sum to pay his cast and crew on the teaser. This is where the story gets interesting.
Vader launched an Indiegogo campaign with a goal of $666. With all crowdfunding campaigns, you need to promote your work shamelessly, and that is what Vader did.
@RealGDT my hero, I need your help. I am trying to break a curse thru favs and RTs. I beg of you. https://t.co/EJmuDTFVfm
— shane (@shanevader) August 7, 2016
I retweeted and a little something else. Take a look at your campaign, amigo. https://t.co/Lsf7SDDw34
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) August 7, 2016
@shanevader Fully funded, Shane. Now go make it.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) August 7, 2016
Guillermo Del Toro donated $618 to fully fund Vader’s campaign and gave him a little kick in the ass to complete his project.
“I had stepped away from Twitter for a few minutes when I got an email from Indiegogo, saying someone, going by an unidentifiable jumble of letters, had donated $618. My heart started racing as I googled the email address to try and figure out who this helpful person was but I had no luck. I opened up Twitter, and there was my answer. I immediately woke up my fiancée to tell her what happened. We’re both huge fans of Guillermo del Toro’s, as an artist and as a person, and I had to let her know right away. She barely woke up, and I let her keep sleeping while I soaked in the news some more,” said Vader to Forbes.
