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Documentary featuring tons of scene favorites is Kickstarter's Project Of The Day

Bleeding Audio, a documentary about the Matches that provides a look at the music industry’s shift to online distribution, has officially started a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds needed to finish the project.

The documentary features interviews from the likes of Kevin Lyman, Tom Higgenson of the Plain White T's, Justin Pierre of Motion City Soundtrack and more. Check out the ever-growing list of guest appearances and how you can support the documentary's production below!

Read more: There’s going to be a documentary about the Matches, and it looks awesome

Bleeding Audio is a “feature length documentary about The Matches, a band from Oakland, their career, and how their experience parallels the digital age of the music industry,” according to their campaign.

They further explain that the bio-documentary is “more than just a melodramatic look at ‘what went wrong.’” It’s meant to help teach other bands a lesson about the Matches’ experiences—both good and bad—and, most importantly, show the power of music.

Over the past three years, the team has recorded over one hundred hours of footage and interviewed a growing list of musicians and more.

The project has currently been funded nearly 25% of their $35,000 goal with 28 days to go. If you'd like to support the project, check it out here.

And check out the growing list of guest appearances in the documentary so far below:

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The funds from the Kickstarter campaign are going to help cover the costs of editorial and piecing the final documentary together.

Here’s what director Chelsea Christer had to say when the documentary was first announced:

I started on this project around two years ago when The Matches first announced their 10 year reunion of E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals. I work as a freelance producer/director that specializes in doc-styled work, and the guys are dear friends of mine. So when they told me about this reunion, I offered to do some videos to help market the–at the time–single show they were planning on doing. While I was interviewing them for these videos, I ended up getting captivated by their known history, and the stories no one has heard that were coming out in these interviews. What were supposed to be these short, 30 min interviews turned into hours of me just asking them more and more questions. It was then I knew they had a bigger story to tell, and I decided to develop it into a feature-length documentary. 

What's come out of these last two years on Bleeding Audio has been amazing. This film is not just about The Matches' history and their insanely successful reunion, but it's also about their experience with the changing music industry and how it affects us all. The community that surrounds these guys, and the connection that music creates between people is a subject that we ended up exploring a lot more, and it's been really inspiring. 

We are done filming for the documentary, and now we are fundraising for post production–which is the life of doc filmmaker, I suppose! Haha. We have all the pieces, we just need to finish the beast! Once we are able to finish, we're looking to submit to film festivals in the fall, and start premiering next spring. 

Check out the teaser trailer below.

How stoked would you be to see a documentary about the Matches? Let us know in the comments below!

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