You know, I wanted to marry you and like I don't think I ever want to do that again.
This is real heavy shit.
Because you're one of my loved ones
but um...
I care about you more than I do about myself
Thank you for telling me that. I didn't know that.
I mean, I get it. I don't blame you for it but I know where it comes from, so...
You don't think about that a lot, do you?
Yeah
You do?
I do
I try not to, but I do.
We know how to climb back up this hill and get back here.
And I'll do that as many times as I have to.
If I left this earth tomorrow, I will have had a full life because of you.
You're my special baby.
What you just saw weren't actors or scripted dialogue or directed scenes.
These were real people having real conversations, part of our
Emmy award-winning project, {THE AND}, in which we had couple of all types sit
across from one another asking each other questions that we often think
about, but we rarely ask.
What would make you leave me?
Am I the best sex you've ever had?
Why did you cheat on me so many times?
Do you want to marry me?
If you had to leave me for another-
No no
Let's just talk about this.
Hi. My name is Topaz Adizes and I'm the creative director and founder here at The Skin Deep.
A creative studio focused on human connection in the digital age.
{THE AND} was our first project, but we have visions to make it bigger and more impactful.
That's why we're here on Kickstarter, so that we could take {THE AND} global.
What {THE AND} does is create an intimate space for discussion where two participants,
whether lovers, exes, family, friends, or strangers can open up about
their relationship in a raw and authentic way. {THE AND} places the
viewer directly into the intimate conversations that they would never be
able to experience otherwise.
Like...just that confused me and it hurt me.
Between going viral, national press coverage, celebrity participants, and winning the
Emmy for best new approaches to documentary, {THE AND} has been a hit.
But despite all the success, there's a need for the project to keep growing.
Our videos are watched internationally,
but they are currently unable to represent worldwide,
which is why we're here on kickstarter. We want your help to make {THE AND} global.
Imagine an international catalog of human relationships spanning a variety of
countries, communities, cultures and languages.
How is love expressed differently in Japan, Brazil, or Greece?
Is jealousy manifested differently in South Africa than it is in Malaysia or Hong Kong?
{THE AND} Global Relationship Project will be a tool for exploring relationships on a global scale
that has never existed before. Your support will help cover the cost of
our first residency program, where we could train individuals from around the
world to prepare, shoot, and direct {THE AND} so they could take it back and film
in their own countries and local communities.
It will also cover our
post-production costs so that in nine months time we'll post a hundred and
fifty to two hundred new couples from around the world, almost doubling our
existing catalog of relationships.
Here's how {THE AND} is already affecting our viewers worldwide.
{The And} has been a really incredible thing in my life.
Every time I want to watch videos that want to make me feel good, I always go to The Skin Deep.
{The And} project is absolutely fantastic.
Every time I see one of your videos, my life changes a little bit somehow.
I don't think I ever would have had certain thoughts unless I had watched those videos.
These videos are just the perfect setting for these deeper human relationships to
actually happen.
I'm very very inspired by every single episode.
I love your work. I love your people. Please, please keep on doing this.
We can feel the value here, but we also know that the value of {THE AND} only grows with the number of
participants we have in it, and we could only make that possible with your support.
So check out our menu of rewards and share this video, this campaign with
the people you treasure connecting with.
Thanks. Thank you very much.
That was good, that felt good?