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on May 13
John Rubino
commented on a projectBest of luck to you all. Sounds like a fun project, and with Getty producing, should be a success! Arabella
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on May 13
John Rubino
backed a project
Don't give up the ghost (a Franco-American family comedy) by Jean Louis Milesi
Le monde de l’enfance transforme tout en magie ou en peur... A child's world transforms everything into magic or into fear...
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47% funded $23,684 pledged
- 156 backers
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on May 13
John Rubino
commented on a projectBest of luck on the project. With Natasha producing, I bet it will be a success!
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on May 13
John Rubino
backed a project
GIULIA by Barthtwr
After being kicked out of a costume party, Anthony wanders Paris by night, dressed as a musketeer, haunted by visions of his ex, Giulia
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100% funded $6,000 pledged
- 35 backers
- Funded May 15, 2012
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on March 8
John Rubino
Posted project update #5Start of ExScEx with Vodka Rocks!
Post CommentThe Kickstarter Premiere of Vodka Rocks! launches our Expanded Screening Experience series. It will take place March 20, 2012, 7:45pm at awesome Brooklyn venue Jalopy, 315 Columbia St. And it's free to all of you Kickstarter supporters with one guest. RSVP at skuflixrsvp@gmail.com
Program: performance by G.R.A.S.S., the ska and reggae band featuring on sax Michael Blake who wrote the score for Vodka Rocks!
Vodka tasting
Twitter competition
Screening of Vodka Rocks!
Q&A with director John Rubino, DP James Callanan, Music Composer Michael Blake.
If you can not make the March 20 screening, you can reserve for the April 24 event, The Actitainment ExScEx - same time, same place, but with different events. Also at skuflixrsvp@gmail.com
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on January 8Funded!
Vodka Rocks!, an actitainment movie by John Rubino
Help us launch actitainment events featuring Vodka Rocks!, a satirical comedy about branding and consumerism, in a venue near you.
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113% funded $6,833 pledged
- 78 backers
- Funded Jan 08, 2012
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on January 8
John Rubino
Posted project update #4Always wanted to own a tank?
Post CommentWe have a tank for you! Just one. The first backer who raises their pledge by $100 may get the tank as an extra reward.
You can see the tank in action:
It was part of the Coca-Cola fleet which has been fighting the Pepsi army in violent conflicts all over the world, and is a very desirable memento, or piece of Americana if you will. Thanks to our inside contacts, we were able to obtain one for our supporters.
This particular one is built to be operated by hamsters (but also has a radio control for convenience), it's about 16" x 7" x 6". It's adorable. You can actually shoot small pellets with it. It will be the envy of all at the park. You know you deserve it.
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on January 6
John Rubino
Posted project update #3Getting very close
Post CommentWe're a couple of days away from our deadline, and at over 50% - feeling very hopeful! Still enjoying so much that our community is raising up to support our efforts. We recommend to everyone this great way to start the new year...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arabellahutter/vodka-rocks-an-actitainment-movie
There are also five other ways (below) in which you can support the fundraising effort over the next 2 days. The most helpful are listed first.
1. Tell your friends, family, neighbors about the campaign! They can google vodka rocks kickstarter, or john rubino kickstarter.
2. Email your circle about our Kickstarter campaign for the distribution of Vodka Rocks! Why should they contribute? Because Vodka Rocks! has been a long labor of love for John Rubino and the film's crew. Because (we were told) it's a brilliant satire of branding and marketing.
3. Message your facebook friends with same content. Or post the link with encouragement to contribute on your facebook page, google +, twitter, linkedin, or any other social media platforms you use.
4. Add comments to our Kickstarter page, our Vodka Rocks! facebook page, and/or our Vodka Rocks facebook Kickstarter page. And “Like” it!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vodka-Rocks-on-Kickstarter/164543293641906
5. Rob a bank with a gun made of black soap and contribute the loot to our campaign. Take a full-page ad in the New York Times advertising our campaign. Sell you favorite racing horse and pledge the proceeds, etc. Or not.
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on December 31
John Rubino
Posted project update #2Kickstarter, the holiday spirit all year?
Post CommentWe had been warned that engaging in a Kickstarter campaign is quite an emotional experience. Still it’s astounding. The generosity.So amazing to have people invest in one’s project. We thought it might pinch that some friends don’t contribute. It doesn’t, submerged under the flow of giving. Plus, it’s a free country. We like to think anyone who contributes does it because they want to, and give an amount they're comfortable with. That's what really matters.
Reading the names of the contributors is such a thrill. The contribution of people we didn’t expect to care is particularly sweet. They’re all sweet. It feels a bit mercenary to equal love with money, I suppose we’re all susceptible to concrete marks of friendship. Each contribution like a drop of gold. We’re awed. Really humbled.
We backed three projects on Kickstarter plus a couple of others on Indiegogo, before we even thought about a campaign for Vodka Rocks! It feels good to picture this money flowing, this generosity flowing to finance the production of artistic projects, in a world where gain seems the main motivation. Contributors to a Kickstarter project finance someone who’ll later finance someone who’ll finance someone, hopefully. One of our contributors, Rumur, has contributed to a whopping 39 Kickstarter projects. He says his own project, Battle for Brooklyn - about the resistance of the community to the destruction of their neighborhood, got support from 1000 donors, and he's happy to contribute back. Instead of spending that $50 or $100 on a dinner or a pair of glasses, the money circulates widely, financing as it goes a huge range of artistic projects. A kind of vast cooperative, or self generated credit union, that bypasses foundation committees and banks’ closed doors.
We're thrilled to know that soon, we will start our distribution/promotion campaign, with the help of our community.
Again, we thank all our supporters, those who have yet to contribute as well as those who already have!
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on December 22
John Rubino
Posted project update #1Vodka Rocks! on East Village Radio!
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Morricone Youth Devon Levins, Vodka Rocks! director John Rubino and composer Michael Blake
It was good to talk with Devon on the Morricone Youth show because he knows his stuff. And because he's really into the fact that it's all live musicians, not the usual computer generated film score. We had an amazing line up of NY musicians. John Lurie had been on the show a couple of weeks prior to our interviews and the lot of the musicians who contributed to the Vodka Rocks! score have worked with Lurie. Listen to the Dec 18, 2011 radio interview!
John listens to Michael talking of his experience composing the score of Vodka Rocks
I've contributed some to the score, but it's really Michael Blake, the composer, who brought an incredible variety of genres and rhythms to the score. It's like an encyclopaedia of the coolest music and film score of the 20th & 21st century! It was fun being on the show with Michael because we know how to fill out each other's sentences at this point having hummed melodies and traded obscure music clips for months. It came as a surprise to be asked about Lotto Land. It kind of brought to the forefront the radically different processes that I had with the 2 films in terms fo the music, and even the radically different nature of the musicians themselves. The Holmes brother have like a song to be able to play it. Once they have taken the music into their heart , then their amazing technical skills come in.
The jazz guys, Steve Bernstein, Daniel Sadownik, Owen Howard, Michael Blake of course, and even others such as Napoleon Maddox, Jeni Shakti Fujita, Teddy Kumpel, they know each other so well day in day out, improvising together comes easy. You place a complex piece of music in front of them and they can play it. Whatever the groove, wow, they'd play it twice and that was it, still blows me away to think of that. It was amazing to have this community of musicians come together to contribute to the score. I wish I had mentioned Kelly Howard on Devon Levins' (pictured left) show. She's the violinist who brought her string quartet, another group of top of musicians, from the classical tradition this time, who contributed to the level of excellency of the sound track.
John Rubino, director of Vodka Rocks! and Lotto Land
Ps- Our Kickstarter campaign ends Jan 8, 2012, still time to give by clicking here!!
John Rubino
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn based film writer/director John Rubino shot his Vodka Rocks! movie around New York. His previous film, Lotto Land, starring Larry Gilliard Jr (The Wire), garnered awards and showed at numerous festivals. It was distributed by CFC/Lion's Gate, and broadcast on HBO.
