Fifty-seven backers donated nearly $5,300 to Judas Kiss on Kickstarter.com, with $2,000 in just 48 hours! Needless to say, J.T. and I are thrilled so many people believe in this project.

With a little less than a week left in the Kickstarter campaign, we want to aim higher — ‘cuz that’s what we do. We don’t settle when we know we can do better. I believe that’s why so many people out there want to give this film a chance to be more than ambitious; they want it to become reality.

Help us raise another $2,500 in this remaining week (the deadline is 11 p.m. PDT, Friday, July 9). Click here to donate. The initial $5,000 from our Kickstarter backers will pay for an upgraded high-definition camera that will allow us to release Judas Kiss as a 1080p Blu-Ray disc, the better to showcase the talent of stars Charlie David, Richard Harmon and Brent Corrigan; the filmmaking finesse of director J.T. Tepnapa and cinematographer David Berry, and the cutting-edge soundtrack of world artists contributing to the film’s soundtrack.

The additional $2,500 we hope to raise by our July 9 deadline will enable the production to improve its production values by paying for:

• Rental of an expensive crane, which will give key shots the look of a bigger-budget film;
• Improved visual effects to sustain the scifi elements of the story;
• Part of the film’s post-production expenses; and
• Helping with the basic (and essential) craft services that make sure the cast and crew get fed really good food. Film sets run on their stomachs!

And, of course, additional donations entitle backers to the cool gifts we’re offering for supporting the film.

I’ve been amazed at the people who have appeared unexpectedly and out of nowhere to sign aboard this project — production companies, record labels, independent artists, fellow filmmakers — just in the past several weeks. We’ll be making announcements about all of these in the coming days and weeks. Judas Kiss is already becoming a bigger project than I ever thought it was meant to be, and so much of it is due to the support and word-of-mouth by longtime and new friends and fans. Twitter and Facebook alone contributed so much to us meeting our Kickstarter goal a week earlier than we hoped.

Subscribe to our RSS feed or “like” us on Facebook to stay abreast of all this great news as we release it. I promise you’ll be impressed by the artists who will be joining this project.

And if you want to go a step further and make an investment in this project (earn your money back!), check out our prospectus and contact us. We’d be happy to talk to you.

Stay tuned!

—/carlos