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All funding is 'crowd-funding', if you think about it. Or, as the philosopher said, "No man is an island." What can crowd-funding do? Crowd-fund your lunch? Crowd-fund a new car? Crowd-fund a needed medical procedure for a sick friend? Crowd-fund a new school playground structure? Crowd fund a charity, a municipal city government, or a historic building earthquake retrofit? Crowd-funding can do it all!

 

This summer, the newsletters from Tom Luong Films might send you running for your copy of the Oxford English Dictionary for definitions of terms like 'investor', 'contribution', 'partner', or 'participant'. Yes, it's another Internet language-barrier invention. For start-up companies who need dollars to kick start their dreams, 'crowd-sourcing' is a business model that has been successfully used to raised large amounts, as far back as 1884, when completion funds were needed to build a pedestal for the famous Statue of Liberty in New York (from Wikipedia). Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer raised more than $100,000 in six months for the cause. More than 125,000 people dropped their nickels, dimes and dollars into the pot. And that was a lot of money in 1884!! 

  

Wikipedia reports that in 2012, financing through this approach topped out at more than two billion ($2.66 billion) US dollars, with more than half of that in the U.S. Without skipping a beat, the Internet and new Business App programmers have created dozens of popular websites and apps, moving out thousands of start-up business financing campaigns in these models. 'Kickstarter', 'IndieGoGo', 'Microventures' and many others are ready and waiting, and Tom Luong Films will be on-deck with their own sites and sources. 

  

Does it work? One rock-n-roll band raised $50,000 in two years, by placing fans on a lifetime concert guest-list. Many other success stories suggest a bucket-load of good will towards various entrepreneurs with the courage to try new ventures, new ways of reaching people, new ways of making money, and new ways of bringing them together. In the Land of Plenty, it's asking-for-the-taking. Independent feature films like those from Tom Luong Films and myself, (writer-producer Julian Phillips), are ready hat-in-hand. 

  

So check us out. Your business, your students, your kids or family-members, your bank or loan-department, your location or setting, your campground-resort, and your community educators, can all get a lift and a positive learning experience, as participants in Tom Luong's next film project, which takes place in the stunning San Bernardino mountains. Money returns can arrive back to you in all sorts of ways, and real cash payouts for real cash investments are combined with legal-status transparent business-practices, for the good of all concerned. Like us!  

 

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 THIS SUMMER WILL BE FUND RAISING SEASON!

Tom Luong Films invites public or private financing for various film and media projects, using the best business practices and combined with complete financial transparency, for the good of all concerned for all donations, purchases, contributions and investments. No guarantee implied or intended.

We'll have multiple funding campaigns to raise money from many different sources including help from you as actors and crew members, your family and friends, schools, businesses, individual investors, charities and many others. See below for a list of our current fun and intriguing entertainment products to kick-start our Summer fund-raising season!

 

  

Get your copy of "The Grounded" on DVD, filmed in Running Springs, Arrowbear Lake,Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear from 2010-2011 support and volunteers from these mountain communities.             

Synopsis: A young-adult brother and sister duo are grounded at Christmas after they break curfew. For the next few days, they find ways to sneak out of the house to go on night adventures around town. They run into bank robbers hiding out in the hills, who kidnap the sister. In the end the brother and his friends, including a boy wearing a Halloween Webman suit, get help from two retired forest service volunteers, and bring the fugitives to justice.

Order your copy now on CreateSpace here.

Donate funds for our next film project here.

First in the Tom Luong Tomorrow Collection. A 450 page print version is available now. TLF is also seeking a quality retail publisher for mass-market distribution for this title.

Storyline: by the year 2077, the US Mars program has had a functional self-sustained base on Mars for about 15 years. Cargo ships move back and forth with goods, a journey that takes just more than a year. Our hero is Guy Reisling, an adventurous cargo pilot. The novel spans a five year period, during which time the Eastern Russian-Islamic/Ukrainian-Hindustan space program alliance on Earth secretly launch their own ships to Mars to take control of the US base there by force and provide for themselves if and when an approaching asteroid actually causes significant Earth devastation. 

Also from the Tom Luong Tomorrow Collection. a 472 page print version available now. TLF is also seeking a quality retail publisher for mass-market distribution, for this title.

Storyline: The planet Jupiter, hellish in size and velocity, holds a mystery. About the year 2412, this mystery explodes from deep within her super-heated inner depths. Two researchers are sent aloft by Planetary Program Proficiency to spend two years finding out why the 100-year-old Jupiter raw materials harvesting program has become a corrupt and sometimes dangerous failure. Daniel Deveroux and his co-worker Angelo Mendoza find themselves in the middle of the first phases of a bizarre Water Logic War, originating in a distant star-system, and ushering in a new era in Earth's historic plunge into local planetary exploration.

Order your copy now on CreateSpace here.

Donate funds for our next book project here.