Help Us Raise $10,000 by April 30th, to support completion and distribution of the documentary
While we actively apply for grant funding and continue our discussions with potential equity investors who will ultimately provide the bulk of the funds needed to complete the film, we continue to rely on smaller-dollar donations to keep up with the production’s ongoing monthly expenses.
As we identify additional grant opportunities and prepare our applications, your support is especially critical. Raising $10,000 through our 2025 Spring Fundraising Challenge will ensure we maintain our momentum toward bringing this important story across the finish line.
“Telling the story of the CCC—a sober sanctuary that's been supporting our community for over 40 years—is more vital today than ever before. It’s an empowering story of recovery, belonging and hope.”
Sister Roma
Producer
“I’m supporting this film because this community saved my life. We all need a place like the Castro Country Club where we can be unapologetically ourselves—in recovery and beyond.”
Yifan Gong
Co-Executive Producer
“As a transgender senior woman, supporting this film means a great deal to me. It explores a uniquely welcoming space—a rare refuge of acceptance for me and so many others who are often overlooked. This story needs to be shared.”
Lynn Riordan
Co-Executive Producer
“The CCC holds a special place in my heart. It’s where I found healing, community and a solution. This film tells stories of hope, faith and courage that will help others find the inspiration to transform their lives. That's why I'm proud to support this project.”
Philly Lasiter
Co-Executive Producer
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Meet Me at the Club — Stories of Hope
Meet Me at the Club is a powerful documentary highlighting the strength, resilience, and hope of LGBTQIA+ people who have transformed their lives.
MMATC by the numbers
168 Hours & Counting
We have captured over 168 hours of interviews, b-roll, and other footage—most of it 6K Raw footage. This is a phenomenal amount of content that will inform not only the main documentary feature, but also the companion footage that we will produce to support the film.
128 Terabytes
All that footage means a LOT of data to wrangle, organize, manage and backup. (That’s to equivalent 250 MacBook Pros with the M4 Pro chip!) In addition to footage captured by our team, we’ve developed a range of assets and a library of news clips and other archival footage that we are using to help shape the story and guide the edit.
58 Interviews
Since this project’s inception in 2021, we’ve captured the life, truth and history of dozens of individuals. We’ve interviewed folks from the community, conducted follow-up interviews, and interviewed the family and friends. We’ve conducted interviews in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Virginia, New York, Washington D.C., and Alabama. And we still have a couple pick-ups to film.
42+ YEars of History
This film is about more than the history of a building; Meet Me at the Club is 42+ years of the personal histories of resilience, resistance and recovery. This film is trans history, is the history of AIDS in San Francisco and the histories of the countless lives who’ve been saved since the Castro Country Club opened it’s doors on March 1, 1983.
Fundraising
Since launching our fundraising efforts on August 1, 2022, we've raised a total of $40,070.95 in mostly small-dollar contributions. After taxes, platform fees, and credit card processing fees, our net amount raised is $27,575.35. Director & Executive Producer, J. Andrew, has personally invested over $70,000 so far into this production.
$450,000 Projected Budget
Since starting production in 2021, we've invested over $98,000 in essential expenses for equipment purchases and rentals, travel, data management and related production costs. Our projected final budget is $450,000, based on our documentary production benchmark of $3,750 per finished minute for our anticipated 120-minute feature film. This positions our film at the lower end of budgets typically seen for feature-length documentaries.
* Figures reported here are current as of March 17, 2025.MMATC FAQs
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We’ve structured our post-production timeline with distribution in mind, and we’ve targeted several key, world-renowned and Academy Award-qualifying film festivals to premiere the film in early 2026. Regardless of the location of our World Premiere, we plan to have the San Francisco premiere in June of 2026.
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Every dollar generated goes directly to support the film’s production-related expenses. Some money goes to pay the credit card processing fees, typically 3.5-6.5% and taxes. If your donation contains a physical perk (e.g. T-Shirt or movie poster), then some of that money goes to cover the costs associated with producing and shipping for those items.
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In order to minimize the costs associated with perk fulfillment, like T-Shirt printing, the producers have chosen to delay perk-fulfillment until Spring 2026, ahead of the film’s premiere.
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If you have ideas or expertise and you wish to contribute meaningfully to the project, we are always open to helpful ideas. Feel free to reach out to the production team here for any specific questions.
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No, donations are not tax-deductible.
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Donor-producers, Consulting Producers and others who have given at higher levels to this project do not have ownership rights to the film. If you would like to become an equity investor in the project, please contact us here.
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No. Unless one of the outlined perks specifically includes a ticket or a reserved pass, all project backers and producers are asked to purchase tickets to the festival or other premiere event. If a movie is premiering at a private event where we are responsible for the ticket sales, it may be possible to accommodate complimentary ticket requests. In all cases, please send us a message on our website’s contact page.
Meet Me at the Club is a feature-length documentary film that tells a powerful story of hope
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Add your name to the credits & Join the nearly 200 Project Backers and organizations who support this film
This is a community-supported, crowd-funded project. During August and September, one of our generous project backers has offered to back every donation, dollar-for-dollar, so we can double our impact. See your name in the credits of the film, and earn special access and other perks. Please join the nearly 200 folks from across the globe who have joined together to support this project.
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Happiness
Thank you
This film is not funded by or sponsored by the Castro Country Club. Donations to the film are not tax-deductible and distributed funds do not benefit the CCC. See our FAQs for more answers to your questions.
If you would like to support the Castro Country Club, please visit www.CastroCountryClub.org.