Kaleidoscope Film and Television LLC
231-421-3998
231-463-8197
Temporary email
Michigan and Oklahoma based
Kaleidoscope Film and Television
United States
Kaleidoscope Film and Television LLC is an independent film production company, which produces feature-length motion pictures, documentaries, and television programming. which are based on diversity both in front of and behind the cameras
The planes and ships brought me back,
but my soul was left behind.
No words could cure.
No arms could comfort.
No loved one could help me heal.
Who I was had splintered away.
I was a memory almost forgotten.
I walked from hell looking home,
but I couldn't find the way.
No way back.
No way forward.
I was lost in the land of despair.
They wanted me to be who I was.
That person didn't live anymore.
Across the field not far away,
stood one who saw my wounds.
She did not speak.
She needed no words.
Yet she comforted my wounded soul.
She helped me see past the fear and the pain.
I found the path that led me home
Horses and Heroes:
An unscripted TV series, which promotes physical and emotional healing
.
Horses and Heroes is an documentary TV series that combines highly effective Peer Support Therapy with Equine Therapy. Unlike most in the genre, it will focus on healing and positive growth rather than endorsing bad behavior. Each season will bring together veterans from WWII to the current conflicts. They will be sharing their challenges and supporting each other as they find new solutions to their physical and emotional challenges. They know the talk because they have walked the walk. They see the dodges and will be able to call each other on them. Sparks may fly. Tempers may flare, especially when they force each other to face their ghosts. But there will also be laughter and fun as they rebuild the comradery, which kept them safe and strong. The snarkiness and practical jokes between the branches don't simply end. There is always room for just one more. This interaction will help them rebuild that sense of brother and sisterhood they depended on while serving, which will help them reclaim their civilian lives. When it airs, it will reach the homes of the veterans, who need to hear that they are not alone and give them information as well as the permission they need to also heal. They will help each other find their way back to the world. Veterans can’t go back and make a brand new start, but they can start from now and make a brand new end.
Funds raised through this store will be used to produce the TV series Horses and Heroes as well as raise awareness of the healing benefits of equine therapy. By combining it with peer support therapy, the series will help veterans heal and move forward.
Unlike most crowdfunding campaigns, supporting our project benefits both yourself and the project. You receive a high-quality shirt that is shipped directly from the manufacturer, which shows your support of veterans, while at the same time assisting our team in producing the series. Please buy a shirt and share our information on your social networking sites with the request that others do the same. Thank you in advance for your assistance in producing Horses and Heroes. If you have any question, our contact information is at the top.
If you would like to support our efforts to produce the series may use the donation button. We are a for-profit business.
Qualifications for the Cast
The casting of the veterans is extremely important. They can make or break the series. Therefore we will be extremely cautious with each season's cast, but the first is particularly important. Each season of Horses and Heroes will host eight veterans, who will be representative of all veterans. Thus, the cast will be based on diversity and inclusivity for gender, age, sexual orientation and branches of the military. For these reasons, we will be excluding those who propagate religious and political extremism. Horses and Heroes is solely about helping veterans heal and reclaim their lives. Too many have used them as disposable parts of the war machine or as political footballs to further their agendas. Veterans are people. Pure and simple. Horses and Heroes' goal is to empower them to reclaim their lives by helping the face down their ghosts. They can't go back and make a brand new start, but they can start from now and make a brand new end. Horses and Heroes will help the eight cast members and the veterans, who watch the series, write a new end for rest of their lives.
Qualifications:
Honorably discharged and must provide a redacted DD214
Want to openly and honestly deal with physical and emotional core issues
Being willing to verbalize their feelings
Support the other veterans in an honest and compassionate way
Physically able to work with the horses
Able to show respect for the horses
To be considered for the cast leave comment, including why you want want to be part of the series.
Cross-branding Partnership
Horses and Heroes is an unscripted TV series, which promotes healing rather than bad behavior. Although Equine Therapy will be the stage, the focus will remain on the veterans and how their lives, as well as those of their families, were changed by the physical and emotional challenges brought into their lives by war.
Horses and Heroes has a ready-made market with a demographic that crosses all ages, ethnic backgrounds, and genders, especially the 18 to 49-year age group. Our target audience will include military personnel, veterans, and their families from past conflicts to the present as well as others who have been challenged with PTSD and TBI.
Each of the Horses and Heroes episodes has been formatted to include two 30-second billboards and one two-minute bridge at the bottom of the hour, which will promote our cross-branding partner. Each of the billboards will honor the service and memory or the service and future of a specific veteran, while the bridges will focus on the sponsor's support of veterans or non-profit organizations that support veterans. The billboards will promote the cross-branding partner by actively involving their customer base in the decision-making process of how the veterans to be honored will be chosen. More than just showing existing commercials, the two-minute bridges would be tailored to highlight the sponsor's support of veterans or their support of non-profit organizations that support veterans.
The nomination process for the veterans to be honored on the billboards would begin with a media campaign directing the customers on how to nominate a veteran. As they are nominated, their names would be announced and their information would be added to the sponsor's and Horses and Heroes' websites. The election process would begin at the local level with the partner's clients voting for their favorite veteran. The top local winners at each level would advance to the next level to once again be voted upon. The winner on the state level would then move on to the national level competition. All 50 state winners would be honored on the websites, but only the top 28 would be honored on air. However, the winners will not be announced until the series airs, thereby creating suspense and an audience.
We will be running eight cameras and 10 body cameras. Our partners will have exclusive use of any footage that isn’t used in the series. The videos will be repackaged to give the partner’s customer base additional scenes that weren’t aired due to time restrictions, especially the interviews with the cast, and the group activities that were censored for content. Additionally, the videos could be used to produce commercials to promote the partner on the networks and social media. Once the primary sponsor has assessed their needs, the remaining footage will be offered to the secondary sponsors for their use.
Horses and Heroes offer its corporate cross-branding partner the ability to promote its brand in a socially responsible way.
