Hello,
We are "Mutts on a Mission." Our family of 4 humans and some rescued pets is traveling cross-country for one year, volunteering at animal shelters the whole way. We are on a mission to help animals. We are 6 months into our journey at this point, and we have traveled through 20 states. I have loads and loads of photos and footage. (I'm a photographer.)
Our Facebook page (Mutts on a Mission) attracts around 100 followers a day, and countless people have asked us if we are the subjects of a reality TV show or a documentary. Since we did not make the reality TV show happen in advance, we have decided to create a documentary of our journey.
The film we envision will be inspirational as well as entertaining. We have excellent working relationships with animal shelters throughout the country, especially the largest no-kill in the world, Best Friends, where we spent one month volunteering. We will educate the public about the problems shelter animals face today, but more importantly, we will teach them what they can do to help. I don't want this to be depressing, but rather upbeat and inspiring... a "feel good" about making this world a brighter place for animals. People are very interested in our journey, so the film will follow our journey, while educating.
We need an animal-loving, good-hearted documentary artist to help us sort out our footage, put it together beautifully and skillfully, and help us fill in the gaps. My husband and I are creative types, and we are also flexible. We are looking for someone we can work easily and well with, someone experienced, and someone who will work with us on a rather tight budget. So, there will be a "good will" element to this. A lot of the work will be on my end, sorting through our videos and photos, finding the most important clips, and working out all of the messages we want to present. Our mission in creating this film, as well as in journeying cross-country, is to help shelter animals. And we want them to benefit greatly from this film.
There is nothing similar out there. We are very excited to get the ball rolling.
There are many endlessly entertaining elements of our trip... We are traveling with two elderly dogs we adopted 16 years ago. We adopted a cat in L.A. a few months ago. We adopted a cockatiel in Utah a couple of months ago. The cat wants to eat the bird. Our small RV is too small for us to all sleep in it, so this has become a tour of hotels. We have to haul (sneak) 4 animals into every hotel. Endlessly comical.
Our family walks our talk...
We have worked in animal rescue for 16 years.
In our NC home, we were active in dog rescue and ran a guinea pig rescue out of our house.
For one entire school year, we created no trash. We called it "Trash Masterpeace." If we couldn't recycle it or reuse it, it didn't come into our house.
We are all vegetarians.
I have been an animal rights advocate for 20+ years.
Animals are our biggest passion (outside of family), and we want someone to come on board and help us help them. Please get in touch if you might be our person. :)