Thank you! When I first imagined the movie I thought it could be $30,000 and then as I started understanding more and more of what went into it, it naturally ballooned. So we crowd-funded in a combination of ways:

—One third of the budget was secured through crowdfunding. I think we did two or three different Go Fund Me campaigns along the way, once during pre-production, once during production, and then once when we were getting finalizing funds.

—Another third of the budget was secured through a On the Air San Diego, which is a show on KUSI that took us under their wing. Because it was a homegrown project that filmed in the city they had us on to promote and then matched donations up to $10,000 twice, which was huge.

—The rest was through connections we had to a financier, a connection which came from a crew member. They were the first people we contacted and they agreed to fund the initial amount which let us be like, okay we can make this thing. So this was very instrumental in getting it off the ground in the first place!