Fundraising For Tashi TV

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We're Asking For Your Support

Help us do something special in the Himalayas. We're making a television series that we think will be truly beautiful special and genuinely inspiring. Both for photographers and a much wider audience. We're looking for your support to make this the best production possible.

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Thankyou to the following companies and individuals who are have generously supported this project:

Panasonic Australia
Sigma Photo Australia
Makalu Adventures
MI Accounting
Blonde Robot
Peak Design
OKKO Filters

A special thankyou to my ambassador sponsors, Panasonic Australia and Sigma Photo Australia. All of the footage will be captured using LUMIX S series cameras and a marvellous range of Sigma L-mount lenses. Ewen Bell is an ambassador for both LUMIX and Sigma in Australia.

Where The Money Goes



  $300 
Buys Tashi a license for DxO PhotoLabs.

  $980 
Covers an iPad for our local production team to track project updates.

  $1,100 
Covers renting studio lights for recording interviews.

  $1,400 
Pays for the license to operate a drone in Nepal.

  $2,000 
Covers a donation to one of the monasteries as appreciation for filming on location.

  $2,000 
Buys Tashi a new laptop for editing his photos.

  $3,000 
Allows us to hire a local audio engineer to expand the production crew.

  $5,300 
Cost of a new full frame camera with three prime lenses for Tashi.

  $5,000 
Is what we want to donate to Tashi’s parents to support their basic living expenses.

  $12,800 
Lets us hire two jeeps with driver for our journey through the Lower Mustang.

  $9,900 
Buys us 32TB of SSD storage while on location.

  $1,600 
Covers the cost of our DOP to fly to Kathmandu.

  $1,500 
Gets us a private driver for our filming in Kathmandu.

  $600 
Pays for an OKKO magnetic filter set - 82mm x3 plates and NDs.

  $500 
Buys a set of A3 inkjet prints to give to our host in Bhaktapur.

  $350 
Buys a set of 8x10 prints for each of the novice monks in Marpha Gompa.

  $320 
Covers a new mobile phone for our porter (Ram) who broke the screen on his a few months ago.

  $75 
Buy us breakfast! Coffee and a pastry at a local croissant shop in Kathmandu becomes a little treat to lift the spirits of the entire team during the 40 day production schedule. We are very happy to receive multiple brekky sponsors!



✅ Items marked with this checkbox have been funded. If you would like to help with a donation, please drop Ewen an email and he'll send you the bank details and update our donor list.

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Filming Begins March 2025

This project is going ahead with whatever level of support we can manage. We have our plane tickets and hotels booked and have cleared our client schedules. We will send our donors updates with each new milestone we hit while in production.

Each of the producers behind this series have committed $10,000 of their own money, and their time. Months of work will also be required to film, edit and deliver the series, which takes even more time away from other employment. It's a big committment. Every dollar contributed by our supporters helps us make this production the best it can be.

We are trying to raise an additional $25,000 before the end of March 2025.

This is a self-funded project, running on a shoestring budget. We have no commission at this time, and need to prove our worth in production in order to find a market for the series. It's a long road ahead, but it begins on March 18 when we land in Kathmandu and start production.

Please join us on this journey :)




 
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