The Many Hats of Ben - a documentary about Benbodhi.⌐◨-◨ ✦₊ v2

(working title)

TL;DR

Discover the transformative power of Nouns DAO through the journey of Benbodhi

Ben spent a few months lurking in the original Nouns Discord before saying anything. Now, he is one of the most devoted and loved members of the community, a funded prop builder, and even co-founder of a fork of Nouns.

We hope this is the first of many films. If successful and the community is happy with it, we would love to continue telling Nounsfolks’ tales in the future.

Short documentary film (20 minutes) | Budget: $22,160 USDC

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v2 ✅ This is the 2nd version of this proposal. We are taking on board the feedback and suggestions from Prop 448. Most importantly:

• We will conduct a remote interview.
• We will not focus on film festivals for the final output.
• We will invest in motion graphics and an online editor/color grader.
• These changes reduced the original budget to 45% of its initial value by removing the theatre/film festival costs from the proposal.

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📽️ THE PLAN The Nouns DAO community is about the passionate individuals behind it. With this documentary series, we aim to spotlight these inspiring journeys. First up, Benbodhi. Ben with hxnzΞ, Gami and Aubtoshi @ SXSW Sydney

We’ll track Ben’s story and his daily schedule, which occasionally includes working 16+ hours a day on some of our favorite Nouns projects:

• Nouncil
• TNS
• Gnars DAO
• Alps DAO
• Prop 218 as part of proposal 218, the largest ⌐◨-◨ in the world were manufactured.

📅 THE SCHEDULE We will deliver the final cut within 3 to 4 months of being funded. Around April 2024 with filming scheduled for late December 2023 / January 2024.

💰 THE ASK - $22,160 USDC

🚀 THE FUTURE We have reached out to a few of our favourite Nounish builders, devs and artists and ultimately decided to start small with only one documentary for now.

We will move on to other stories after we deliver Ben’s and the community is happy with the result.

If successful, we will make new proposals for the following stages:

• Stage 01 - Australian Wave 🇦🇺 ⏩ Gami, Mr. Seaks, TBD
• Stage 02 - Brazilian Storm 🇧🇷 ⏩ JP, Vlad, TBD
• Stage 03 - USA, Canada: TBD
• Stage 04 - Latin America: TBD
• Stage 05 - Europe: TBD
• Stage 06 - Asia/Japan: TBD

This is a 2 to 3-year plan and the idea is to save on budget and time by having the same film crew shoot more than one story in each continent.

Please get in touch with us if you have suggestions of people/places/projects we should be considering.

Also, since all the material will be cc0, we can think of it as building blocks of a feature-length documentary in the not-so-distant future. And anything else anyone wants to build with it 🫡

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🫂 THE TEAM We are essentially the same crew from “Non-fungible Aotearoa”. Proposal 405 funded us to submit the documentary to 50+ film festivals: https://nouns.wtf/vote/405

• Leo Clark (Director/Producer) https://warpcast.com/leoclark.eth

• Simon Wade (VFX Artist) https://www.6twenty.com/

• Online editor/color grader - TBD

Thank you for reading 🙏 Let’s make more art in Season 3 🫡