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Tara Wray and Josh Melrod

White River Junction, VT

Tara Wray (Director, Producer, Camera): Tara’s first film, an autobiographical documentary titled Manhattan, Kansas, premiered at the 2006 SXSW Film Festival where it received an audience award. It went on to screen at New York’s Lincoln Center, and f... view more

  1. on November 17
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    Looking at Zion: a photo project about Mormon culture by Michael Friberg

    A year long photographic and multimedia documentary looking at Mormon culture and history in Utah.

    • 103% funded $2,900 pledged
    • 51 backers
    • Funded Nov 26, 2011
  2. on April 19, 2011
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    Voyage to Amasia by Randy Bell and Eric V. Hachikian

    Voyage to Amasia is a feature documentary about the Armenian Genocide inspired by Eric Hachikian's piano trio of the same name.

    • 126% funded $6,330 pledged
    • 81 backers
    • Funded May 03, 2011
  3. on January 25, 2011
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    Lies Grown-ups Told Me by Nomi Kane

    "Lies Grown-ups Told Me" is a comedy packed comics anthology about the endearing, and sometimes enduring, gullibility of youth.

    • 259% funded $2,597 pledged
    • 122 backers
    • Funded Apr 23, 2011
  4. on June 3, 2010
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    Tara Wray and Josh Melrod
    Posted project update #4

    Thank you!

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  5. on June 1, 2010
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    Good Grief: Making CARTOON COLLEGE - a documentary about comics by Tara Wray and Josh Melrod

    The definitive story of indie comics and the foremost institution of higher learning for those who draw them.

    • 184% funded $9,228 pledged
    • 108 backers
    • Funded May 31, 2010
  6. on May 23, 2010
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    Tara Wray and Josh Melrod
    Posted project update #3

    One Week Left & A New Video

    Only a week left to go! The drive ends on May 31st at midnight, so if you haven't made a pledge to help fund Cartoon College now is the time....

    Just for fun we've posted this assembly of footage shot in April at MoCCA Fest 2010, a super cool comics convention in New York attended by many of the cartoonists we're following in the film. Please pass it along to anyone who might be interested, and thank you for supporting the project!

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  7. on April 12, 2010
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    Tara Wray and Josh Melrod
    Posted project update #2

    New Incentives! Enthusiasm for the Project in Germany!

    Just a quick note to let you know for pledges of $225 we're now offering signed copies of James Sturm's newest graphic novel Market Day, which is getting terrific reviews.

    Also we were very excited to see that German cartoonist/poet Markus Freise wrote a long blog post about Cartoon College.

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        Markus Freise on April 13, 2010

        Thanks for mentioning my post. Hope, everything goes well. So excited to see your movie.


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  8. on April 5, 2010
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    Tara Wray and Josh Melrod
    Posted project update #1

    Thank You! / A New Goal

    We want to thank everyone who helped get the Cartoon College Kickstarter drive off to such a successful start! To those who donated, to those who posted links on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Flickr, who forwarded our email or told someone about the project, to blogs like The Beat, Mermaid Hostel, Top Shelf, and especially the students and faculty of CCS who helped spread the word, thank you.

    After one week we've achieved 93% of our minimum goal. That's fantastic, and better than we expected. But we still need your support! The drive has 56 days left and we want to make the most of that time, so we've set a new goal for ourselves: $15,000!

    Even if you've already made a pledge you can do us a huge favor by continuing to tell people about the project and emailing/posting links to our Kickstarter page. And if you haven't made a pledge, please do!

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  9. on March 29, 2010
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    Tara Wray and Josh Melrod launched a project

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    Good Grief: Making CARTOON COLLEGE - a documentary about comics by Tara Wray and Josh Melrod

    The definitive story of indie comics and the foremost institution of higher learning for those who draw them.

    • $5,000 funding goal
    • 05/31/2010 Funding Ended
  10. on February 21, 2010
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    Iron Horse: The Legend of Lou Gehrig (Feature Documentary Film Script) by Longshot Productions

    The definitive documentary portrait of the life and death of the great Yankee slugger, American icon, and baseball hero.

    Funding Unsuccessful (05/07/2010)