EPISODE 1
55:03
Do It For The Grand
June 16, 2024
DO IT FOR THE GRAND is a documentary about a reality show about the construction of a broke ass game show, from the seriously unserious minds of Jake Jurich & Alexis Simmons.
EPISODE 1
55:03
Do It For The Grand
June 16, 2024
DO IT FOR THE GRAND is a documentary about a reality show about the construction of a broke ass game show, from the seriously unserious minds of Jake Jurich & Alexis Simmons.
EPISODE 2
23:40
Punctuality Is A Sin
July 6, 2024
Experience the exhilaration of getting ready to roll by 9AM, with your favorite film crew and the cast who decided to show up.
EPISODE 2
23:40
Punctuality Is A Sin
July 6, 2024
Experience the exhilaration of getting ready to roll by 9AM, with your favorite film crew and the cast who decided to show up.
EPISODE 3
18:01
Gramber Alert
July 20, 2024
The game’s going live any minute now…but first, a meditation on stranger danger.
EPISODE 3
18:01
Gramber Alert
July 20, 2024
The game’s going live any minute now…but first, a meditation on stranger danger.
EPISODE 4
31:21
Hot Box, Cold Feet
September 7, 2024
It’s 9AM, and we’ve got 30 hours to go. Who finds their BIG RED BOX, and who FUCKING FOLDS?
EPISODE 4
31:21
Hot Box, Cold Feet
September 7, 2024
It’s 9AM, and we’ve got 30 hours to go. Who finds their BIG RED BOX, and who FUCKING FOLDS?
caught up? we're at the end of episode 4 and...
IT'S 10AM SATURDAY:
29 HOURS REMAINING
Post Title | Post Date |
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CARMEN HAS $650 | |
NIA & VONNIE HAVE $600 | |
KEIONI HAS $550 | |
JHORDAN HAS $400 |
What Would You Do For
A Thousand Dollars?
five new yorkers attemped to livestream
themselves for 30 hours straight
five new yorkers attemped to
livestream themselves for 30 hours straight
five new yorkers attemped to livestream
themselves for 30 hours straight
five new yorkers attemped to
livestream themselves for 30 hours straight
9AM Saturday to 3PM Sunday…who’s gonna stay on stream all 30 hours? Our contestants were given contracts to sign, battery packs to keep their phones alive, and almost no information about what they were in for.
they thought it was for a game show
called “do it for the grand”
they thought it was for a game show
called “do it for the grand”
“We really don’t give a shit about making a game show”
-Jake Jurich, co-creator (episode 1)
“None of the money is ever gonna make sense”
-Alexis Simmons, co-creator (episode 4)
The innermost layer of DO IT FOR THE GRAND is an absurd, micro-budget game show. Contestants are constantly hovering between $0 and $1000—winning and losing money from missions, challenges, and improvised punishments. It’s all coming in through the livestream chat!
Whatever they’ve got in the bank come 3PM Sunday is theirs to keep. Who makes it all 30 hours, and who’s gonna DO IT FOR THE GRAND?
but it was really a reality show
about the making of the game show
but it was really a reality show
about the making of the game show
Our crew wasn’t just running around NYC filming the game show contestants…we were also filming ourselves running around NYC filming the game show contestants. Everyone was working for free, almost none of the locations were cleared, actors were cancelling left and right, and yet—the show had to go on.
DO IT FOR THE GRAND is a reality show about the trials and tribulations of executing a shitty game show, starring a stoned crew of entertainment professionals who were all unemployed while the industry went on strike for the summer.
and this is a documentary about that.
and this is a documentary about that.
We shot with each contestant on their own weekend of summer 2023. We had to prepare 30 hours of shit for each of them, even if they might not make it all the way through the call sheet. So the weekdays in between each shoot were spent developing games & missions, booking actors, crafting costumes, prop shopping and prepping for production meetings. And at this point, would you believe us if we told you we filmed all of that, too?
We’ve taken all the game show footage from each contestant’s weekend, all the behind-the-scenes footage of the crew’s reality, all the documentary footage of the prep that made it possible, and all the interviews we shot with everyone involved…and wrapped it all up in a blunt.
So—finally—DO IT FOR THE GRAND is a documentary about a reality show about a broke ass game show.
five new yorkers attemped to livestream themselves for 30 hours straight
they thought it was for a game show called “do it for the grand”
but it was really a reality show about the making of the game show
and this is a documentary about that.
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10AM SATURDAY
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29 HOURS REMAINING
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November 13, 2024
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EDITING EPISODE 5
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