Documentary financing · impact-investor opportunity.
For documentary partners, impact investors, and philanthropic funders evaluating The Timelist Project — the in-development feature documentary produced with Timelist Group and Dr. Holly Carter.
Logline & Impact Thesis
Logline. The Timelist Project follows Yusef Andre Wiley through four acts — The Beginning, The Turning Point, The Building, and The Legacy — as he moves from years inside the California corrections system to founding Timelist Group, scaling it into a $10M+ annual portfolio, and becoming a national voice on second-chance infrastructure, leadership, and civic transformation.
Impact thesis. The documentary is anchored to operating reality, not parable. The story opens inside CDCR and follows the same person who, by the final act, is delivering California's CalAIM Justice-Involved service line, operating a portfolio carrying a $63,000-per-month utility burden, and running a 171+ bed reentry housing network across 9 LA County sites with a 100+ team. That is the load-bearing claim: this is a working answer to a civic question — what does durable, peer-led second-chance infrastructure look like — rather than a redemption arc abstracted from the work.
Current Production Stage
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Funding Target & Use of Funds
[Placeholder — founder to confirm headline funding target.] Headline ask: $[Placeholder — founder to confirm] in documentary financing, structured to bring The Timelist Project from current production stage through deliverable, festival-ready cut and impact-distribution rollout.
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Structure: [Placeholder — equity, gap, grant, or hybrid — founder to confirm]
Principal photography — crew, equipment, location, and on-set operating costs needed to capture remaining story beats.
Editing, color, sound design, score, and finishing — the work that turns raw footage into a festival-ready cut.
Story consulting, archival licensing, and editorial support to protect narrative integrity through the cut.
Educational curriculum, community screening tour, and impact-distribution strategy tied to the eight impact areas below.
Cash-flow bridge across the production timeline so the team can move between stages without losing days to financing gaps.
Standard production contingency to absorb schedule, weather, and scope variability without compromising the cut.
Impact Areas
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