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on May 12, 2011
JL Aronson
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How to Cheat - Help us get to the LA Film Festival! by Amber Sealey
How to Cheat is a self-funded, DIY-style feature film that has been accepted into competition at the LA Film Festival!
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102% funded $4,600 pledged
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on April 17, 2011
JL Aronson
commented on a project updateSo much wisdom in such a small package.
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on April 1, 2011
JL Aronson
Posted project update #11Last Summer on your television! or computer! or whatever!
Dear Friends,
Sorry for the lack of updates but this film is like Coney Island itself, you don't hear much from it during the wintry months but that doesn't mean there aren't plans in the works. Well, as the rides are being greased for the opening day of the season, I've got some big news to report. Last Summer at Coney Island will soon be available on DVD, courtesy of IndiePix Films. They’ll also offer the film as a download from their site, starting April 12. (The DVD will be ready around May 1.)
At the same time, WNET/Thirteen and WLIW/21–New York’s PBS stations–will be broadcasting the film this summer! Thirteen will show it on May 15th, though I haven't gotten confirmation from WLIW about their schedule, yet. (Hold on, Long Island.) After that it will become available to other PBS stations around the country. It doesn't mean that they'll show it but it'll be available.
I'm currently working on some crazy DVD extras that I can't wait to share with you. All Kickstarter donors who were able to give $25 or more will have their very own complimentary copy arriving in mail boxes around mid-May. And those of you who gave under $25 will still get a little something something, so long as you provided me with an address through this project page.
So, here we are folks. It's been a wild ride and it's not over yet. I couldn't have made it this far without you.
Happy spring,
JLA
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on December 17, 2010
JL Aronson
commented on a projectbig update coming soon, Daniella!
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on September 2, 2010
JL Aronson
backed a project
Lucid - Feature Film by Jeremy Carr
Are you "CRAZY about NY?" A gritty, New York, psychological drama needs your support to complete principal photography.
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103% funded $11,350 pledged
- 103 backers
- Funded Sep 10, 2010
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on August 7, 2010
JL Aronson
backed a project
fiona's band - angel city by Rumur
Fiona has been writing songs since she was 2. Now she's ready to record an album and she wants your help.
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107% funded $536 pledged
- 27 backers
- Funded Aug 10, 2010
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on July 24, 2010
JL Aronson
Posted project update #10premiere screenings!
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on June 7, 2010
JL Aronson
Posted project update #9You did it!
You contributed to the completion of an important film about the one and only Coney Island and because of your generosity, we are that much closer to completion. In fact, although I'd hoped to announce this while the campaign was still running, I only received confirmation this morning that we will have a world premiere on August 9 at Brooklyn Academy of Music (aka BAM, the best movie theater and performance institution in the world). I'll be sending out reminders about that over the next couple months. Also, you'll receive another email soon requesting your full contact information so that you can receive your thank you gift, along with further notices of screenings and major "Last Summer" news. For now, I just wanted to send my heartfelt thanks. I am deeply in awe of each one of you. Something about this project spoke to you (or in some cases, the director spoke to you). But whatever it was, you saw the importance of making this happen and you acted. I promise you that this film will be looked at for generations as future people try and figure out what Coney Island was and how it became what it might yet become. Coney Island is always changing, let's not forget that. But this has been a particularly tumultuous time for the area and the ways in which everything played out speak not just about New York City's values and politics but of this moment in America. For the moment, go see for your self, it's only a subway ride away.
http://www.coneyislandfunguide.com/
JLA
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Sean Pollock on June 7, 2010
Hear-hear!
(or a car ride, a train ride, and then a subway ride...)
Congrats again.
Sean
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on June 6, 2010Funded!
Last Summer at Coney Island (documentary) 2 by JL Aronson
Help support a film about changing times in the birthplace of American popular culture. The project is approaching its final hurdles!
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100% funded $12,026 pledged
- 95 backers
- Funded Jun 06, 2010
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on June 6, 2010
JL Aronson
Posted project update #10Read this now! Last Chance at Coney Island!
Post CommentTo All Those Who Pledged the first time around and not the 2nd time around-
I know I sent emails out before but this is it. I'm posting this update to the original Kickstarter project to let you know that the 2nd Kickstarter project ends tonight shortly after 9pm EST.
http://kck.st/9h4Xsx
It's close! But I just realized that many of you did not re-pledge, meaning your credit card was never charged and we're that much further way from being funded. Many of you have re-pledged (bless you) and many more came in on the 2nd time around as their first experience with Kickstarter. I just figured out that if everyone who hasn't yet done it, re-enters their pledge at the same or greater level as before, we'll be home free! So, please do it now. Go to:
http://kck.st/9h4XsxEven if it looks like your pledge level is "sold out," I promise you'll get a DVD or whatever your pledge level specifies as you thank you gift. And if you need one more kick of inspiration, here's the opening of the movie, never before posted:
http://www.vimeo.com/8985052use "guest" as the password when prompted.
And yes, i know many people don't check email on summer Sunday afternoons and that's why it's even more critical you who are reading this pledge now.
And one more thing, I shouldn't be saying this but a friend who has already given all he can afford has promised to pledge the project balance so long as I pay him back as soon as the money goes through (he needs to feed his children, after all!) So, you may see that the project was successful but the fact is that I will still need to raise more money after this. But the closer we get to the $12,000 target, the more likely it is there will be a premiere at the end of this summer. And from there, the world is our oyster.
Thanks!
JL Aronson
JL Aronson is the founder of Creative Arson, a Brooklyn-based documentary production company. He is an active producer, cameraman and editor in the film and TV world, recently serving as Coordinating Producer on HBO's Taxicab Confessions and Video Prod... view more
Wow -- DVDs in mid-May! The reward level I selected said 2012. Kudos on totally demolishing your schedule!
Looking forward to it!!