Red Arches

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RED ARCHES is a documentary film about labour abuse in McDonald's.

I had been reseaching labour abuse on my country for some time now, and what happened with this two kids in McDonald's was the last straw.

"RED ARCHES" was then born. Just after I tweeted about making this documentary film, I got more than  300 messages of people I didn't know  wanting to tell their story in order to  prevent others from suffering the same abuses they were victim of. From McDonald's to many other corporations, let us all help them have a voice.

The death of a young couple who were just 18 years old (Alexandra Porras and Carlos Gabriel Campos) during their day job  due to negligence from McDonald's, and all the series of labour abuses that have been happening in Perú during these last years, are what ignites this investigation. And I won't lie to you,  I am really enraged. All that I've heard and read is absolutely horrible and  must really be stopped.

Just in 2019, there have been  more than 200 deaths and 35000 accidents due to labour negligence  registered in my country and right now, we're dealing with a strong crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic (coronavirus), leaving thousands of people in the streets, because of mass payoffs that went from being illegal to be a part of the norm, because our government has allowed for them to be,  helping giant ABUSIVE CORPORATIONS to fire their employees.

Along the way, I met a journalist that has been behind the back of the Peruvian Work and Economic administration, and also a young lawyer specialized in labour abuses (he actually works for corporations that want to fire people, but in his free time he helps that same people to prevent them from being fired, kind of  poetic if you ask me), and together, we have decided to expose all the information we have, and to show the world what is happening this side of the globe.

So, after all that explanation, where does all the money goes?

Making a film ain't cheap, and as we want it to have the largest distribution possible, for everyone in the world to actually watch it ( and start replicating to stop abuses in their own countries ), we have to follow a lot of technical procedures that are quite expensive (specially for a country like ours).

Cameras, lights, sound, music, editing, animations, and specially paying all of the people working in the project is where all this money goes, as it's a long process that will probably take some months for completion (and as we're making a documentary film about labour abuse,  the LAST thing we want is to be part of that awful action, we want all our personnel to be happy while working in this project).

So that's it, I really hope you can help us make this film and expose all this terrible stuff. We are sure that together we can really make a change and more importantly, be a voice for those who are the victims of labour abuse.

About the perks! Well, first and foremost, you can help us bring down the abuse in McDonald's by contributing with our special "One Dollar Menu". Then, you can also receive a "Thank You Email" from us,as the film wouldn't exist without you all contributors.

You can have  first access to the premiere  of the documentary too, we will send you an online link and you'll get to watch RED ARCHES before it's official release date.

If you live in Lima (Perú), we can give you a special card for you to exchange in selected restaurants with the best hamburgers in Lima (that way you can try  a REAL hamburger, not like the ones sold in McDonald's). Due to what is happening with the pandemic, this will probably be take away or delivery.

Going on with the perks, your name can also appear on the " Special Thanks " section in the  credits  and everyone will know you helped us make this happen.

You can also be a part of the documentary  (yes, really!). You will become an  animated character!! There are some animated sequences on the film and you can be a part of them. Our illustrator will draw you and your animated counterpart will be inside RED ARCHES (and we will also send you the digital file of your illustration for you to have and show on all your social media).

The last perks is to credit you as an  ASSOCIATE  or  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER  for the film. That means your name will be on the opening credits animation and everyone will know that thanks to you, a big part of our budget was filled (we'll be REALLY REALLY thankful for this). There are  fifteen slots  on the Associate Producer perk and only  four slots in the Executive Producer perk, due to the big amount of money needed for this.

That's it, thanks a lot for reading and helping us make this film become a reality. Together, we will stop labour abuse, first in Perú, and next in the whole globe.