A Great Horse Documentary Project, Guest Post bySarah "B.ee"

Hello animal lovers.

My name is Sarah and I'm here to introduce a fundraising project I have in the works, but first I'd like to tell you a little about myself.

I grew up on the West Coast and recently graduated with a degree in journalism (it only took me 18 years, but that just shows my persistence). During my education, I had to create a video for a class. It wasn't long before I was hooked on filmmaking. I bought a small camera and started filming the dogs and cats at my local shelter to help "sell" them to the public.

In my final semester, I took a documentary class and had to produce a 10-minute film for a class project. My team and I chose to do a documentary on a local horse rescue shelter. However, there is so much more to the story than 10 minutes can fit.

Until recently, it has been illegal to slaughter horses in the U.S. for human consumption. That didn't stop people from selling horses to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico, though. So California created a state law in which it is a felony to even knowingly transport horses on the way to slaughter. It still happens anyway, and most of these horses end up in this slaughter system. The worst part is the condition these horses are subject to on the way to their death. It's nothing less than those sickly images you see on TV about factory farming. They are treated as a product with no regard to the suffering they endure.

And that is what my fundraising project is about. I want to complete a feature-length documentary about this system and a shelter that saves these horses, and I need help with the production costs.

To learn more, you can find my project at my Kickstarter page. You can also find my class film and other videos on my YouTube page.