Interesting story and great turn out. Filmmaker Nirvin Mullick made a documentary of 9 year old Caine Monroy cardboard arcade and it turned into a huge scholarship fund. Check out the Vimeo and YouTube video sensation after the jump.
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Caine Monroy has proven there’s no limit to what you can create from a big pile of cardboard and an even bigger imagination.
The 9-year-old from Los Angeles built a fantasy arcade in his father’s East L.A. used car parts shop during his summer vacation. He created the entire arcade by recycling cardboard boxes and set up a pricing model: $1 for four plays or a $2 for a “fun pass,†offering 500 plays in a month.
The problem was that no one walked by his arcade, because his father’s business has gone mostly online.
Caine’s first costumer, filmmaker Nirvin Mullick, was worth the 9-year-old’s wait. Mullick came looking for a car part, but fell in love with Caine’s story, which he has turned into a now viral documentary sensation.
The 11-minute documentary has been viewed 1 million times on Vimeo and almost 500,000 times on YouTube.
In the film, Mullick used Facebook and Reddit to plan a flashmob to surprise Caine at his arcade, in what would become “the best day of Caine’s life.â€
The silver lining to this story is the scholarship fund Mullick set up for Caine’s college education, which has already raised more than $90,000. Mullick astutely notes, there’s no saying what this boy could accomplish with an engineering degree.
