Open Secret The Film - Campaign For Finishing Funds

OUR FILM IS 92% FUNDED!

Help us raise the final 8% of the budget ($23,116.92) to complete our edit.

There's a child right now who needs your protection.

A child should never have to be braver than the adults responsible for protecting them.

For five years, we have documented allegations of decades of sexual abuse, institutional silence, and retaliation within North Carolina’s New Hanover County Schools.

But what has stayed with me most is the courage of the people who refused to look away.

Parents who kept demanding answers. Survivors who spoke out at a personal cost. Whistleblowers, journalists, and community members who challenged powerful people and stood beside families who had been ignored.

They persevered, even as the years passed. Now, I’m asking you to help us bring their story to the screen.

Donate today to help complete Open Secret

Your gift, no matter the size, will help finish the film.

Filming is complete. Your donation will help fund the remaining editing and post-production costs, bringing us closer to sharing Open Secret with parents, educators, students, and community leaders.

You will help us complete a film that asks an urgent question:

What happens when the institutions entrusted to protect children protect predators instead?

Open Secret follows residents who came together to challenge a deeply fractured system. Their courage carries a question beyond one school district; what is needed within our communities to keep children safe, and what must we do differently to protect them moving forward?

A story of courage. A mission of prevention.

Every child deserves adults who listen and act. Every parent deserves to have concerns taken seriously. Every educator and student deserves a school where speaking up leads to protection.

Our goal is to bring the film into communities alongside practical child-safety resources and facilitated discussions, helping families recognize concerns, talk with their children, and understand where to turn for help.

We are also exploring a child-safety curriculum collaboration with Brandi Dugal, founder of The Fidget Game.

Regal Cinemas has expressed interest in a nationwide release. Completing the film is the next step toward pursuing that opportunity.

Watch a short clip featuring attorney Faith Fox

Please help us finish what this community had the courage to begin.

Your donation supports the work still needed to bring Open Secret to audiences and move these conversations toward prevention.

For more information and clips about Open Secret, visit OUR WEBSITE.

Make a donation today!

All donations over $500 receive a mention on screen, in the film's credits.

If you have already given, thank you. You have helped carry this film through five years of work.

Please share this campaign with five people who care about children’s safety, and tell them why this story matters to you.

With gratitude,
Kerry David
Filmmaker, Open Secret

Open Secret is a fiscally sponsored project of Entertainment 2 Affect Change (E2AC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
EIN: 46-2660255.


Every contribution helps move the film closer to release, and protect a future child from abuse.

Tax-deductible donations are processed through Open Secret’s fiscal sponsor:

Entertainment 2 Affect Change (E2AC)**
EIN: 46-2660255**
A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to producing high quality digital, cinematic, and live entertainment for the express purpose of bringing positive change to underserved health and social communities. Their vision is to revolutionize the way that organizations, content creators, and funders collaborate to tell meaningful and powerful stories that entertain, engage, educate, and inspire.