Meet Me at the Club: The Castro Country Club Story
Equity Investment
We’re looking for partners to bring this story to the widest audience.
We’re excited about this picture. This beautiful story is going to change people's lives, and we’re looking forward to bringing on key partners who can help us bring this story to the big screen and audiences around the world.
Email the Director / Executive Producer: j@libertylanefilms.com
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.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.