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Project Name: Human Telegraphs
Asking For: $37,050 through Seed & Spark
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Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $19,659
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 30
Description: Three young upstarts are trying to look behind New York City’s closed doors while generating plenty of laughs along the way. Fern Lim, Kayla Conroy, and Rachel Kay Barclay are the co-producers and co-stars of Human Telegraphs, a series about three women who attempt to launch a message delivery service.
In Human Telegraphs, the co-stars portray aspiring businesswomen who agree to transport missives across the city. In doing so, they encounter a lot of strangers, which will invariably lead to some unusual situations ripe for comedy. According to the Human Telegraphs Seed & Spark page, the goal of the series is to capture “the magic of strangers caught in unexpected intimate collisions in NYC.”
Lim, Conroy, and Barclay all show up in their pitch video to provide more details about the show they want to make:
Creator Bio: All three of Human Telegraphs‘ principals are based in New York City. Their combined credits include work in film, TV, theater, and web productions.
Best Perk: If you pitch in at least $25, the Human Telegraphs team will shout your name in the middle of Manhattan. If you pretend that your name is actually the name of your business, this perk could serve as some good, cheap advertising.
Why You Should Fund It: In concocting their own addition to the expansive catalog of web series that feature young adults in the big city, Lim, Conroy, and Barclay have taken inspiration from some some fine shows. They list Arrested Development and High Maintenance as influences, and the latter of those shows — which also tells the stories of loosely associated New Yorkers through a central plot device — seems like a good comparison for the show we’ve spotlighted today. Human Telegraphs has the potential to produce the same appealing rhythm that High Maintenance boasts, and so I am curious to see what its creators put together.
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