SUPPORT OUR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
BE A HERO - GIVE TO OUR IMMEDIATE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN (Make A Donation)
As with any successful start-up business it will take us years of raising diffrent levels of investment and development to get KushCinema where we envisage it to be as an international recognised streaming platform and business championing the best in black entertainment, employing a good number of staff and supporting the production of our own original content thus supporting black content creators.
At this early stage of development we need to continually raise funds & investment using multiple fundraising channels including crowdfunding and engaging our supporters and the wider UK black community and others that support black business/community development and want to see progressively successful UK black-owned businesses represented internationally.
At this stage we need to prove viablity of KushCinema and get people using it so rather than us spending all our time seeking major private investment now (which would be very diffficult anyway in these depressed economic times), we want build slowly, stay in full control of our initial growth and have the ability to solely determine our short and mid-term future (major investors will dictate our journey and may noy have the black communities best interest at heart as we do)).
As a start we are currently crowdfunding to raise £72,000 towards supporting costs for:
1. The building of this £20,000 platform (which is still being paid for and has additional ongoing monthly costs)
2. Considerable ongoing marketing costs (£3k a month)
3. Hiring and building our important new management team
4. Acquiring costly new content (new films/series monthly for your viewing pleasure)
5. Meeting ongoing management and development costs (monthly management, broadband, site development)
We need your help to meet these ongoing increasing costs!
KushCinema:
Marlon Palmer a pioneer UK black film exhibitor presents “KushCinema.com” the UK’s first proudly “Black-owned” community-driven streaming platform, creating a one-stop shop to easily find and enjoy global stories that reflect and celebrate Black culture whilst also placing a historical spotlight on black British cinema.
KushCinema incorporating KushTVee will also create new much-needed national and international distribution opportunities for black and minority content creators and fill a longstanding funding gap by supporting co-production of new inspiring original content.
Kush Films - Our Legacy - Our Vision
KushCinema is a pioneering new 'Black Owned' streaming platform championing black culture & entertainment and is part of the Kush Films & Kush Community Arts & Media Development (not-for-profit) network of community focused companies and since 1998 we have strove to 'make a difference' in the UK black community through our legacy work mainly in film exhibition & distribution but also with developing training courses for disadvanatged young people, youth talent shows and other not-for-profit projects like working with young people on our 2013 schools creative writing competition celebrating the 50th year anniversary of ‘the Martin Luther King Jnr speech 'I Have A Dream’ where Key Stage 2 pupils in the London borough of Hackney schoools wrote their own empowering I Have a Dream Speech (as you see in the page banner image above; the event was supported by beloved pioneer actor Rudolph Walker who gave away prizes to the young winners).
We have also in the past arranged film discussion events shining a light on the very serious issue of gun and knife crime among young people in our UK communities.
Now with this pionering streaming platform we will continue our legacy work and dedicate KushCinema/KushTVee to positively champion black culture globally whilst also supporting young people, especially content creators/filmmakers and offer them new monetization and international distribution opportunites. We also want to develop and offer career opportunities working with us and elsewhere in TV & film.
We want to constantly educate, uplift and use this platform as a force of good for the advancement of global black communities and especially build within our UK 'Black British' community .
If you would like to support us with a one-off donation direct payment to our bank acount or a small ongoing regular monthly donation (as others have done £5 / £10/ £20) please contact us: Tel:+ 44 7961 977 749 or send us an email to directly acquire our bank details to set up a monthly standing order).
Spread The Word
Please remember that also spreading the word and introducing the platform to others is great and will additionally support us. Also check us out on all social media platforms and ‘Like’ and ‘Follow’ our pages.
Larger Donations
If you would like to make a larger donation then please feel free to give us a call to discuss further: +44 (0) 7961 977 749.
Thank you for your continued support – we are on this journey together.
Marlon Palmer
Founder / Director
