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Flex Is Kings by Deidre Schoo / Michael Nichols
Documents the triumphs and hardships of the community behind the contemporary urban dance movement called “Flexing” in Brooklyn.
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Jerónimo M.M.
Posted project update #8What about the Songs of Ayahuasca CD?
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Posted project update #7A much needed update
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The Ayahuasca Project / The Jungle Prescription by Jerónimo M.M.
A documentary about what indigenous people know, and we have forgotten, about the most potent plants on earth
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132% funded $53,193 pledged
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Jerónimo M.M.
Posted project update #6One day to go!
Five days ago we reached our original goal of $40,000, and we set a new goal. With one day to go, over 600 wonderful people have pledged.This has been more than we imagined. We are humbled by your generosity and commitment. With all this support, we feel inspired to not only to accomplish what we'd hoped, but to go even further - creating greater outreach for the film, and sharing it with an even-wider audience.
Today, on the last day of the campaign, we offer 2 exciting new rewards:
GABOR MATÉ PACKAGE- $60
A signed copy of Gabor Maté’s most recent book, the award-winning In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction which played an important part in the development of the film´s underlying themes. “Gabor Maté’s connections- between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political- are bold and wise.” -Naomi Klein (No Logo, the Shock Doctrine). “Maté probes deeply into the life histories and psyches of his many patients... What emerges is nothing short of a revelation.” —Edmonton Journal. Signed book includes a personal dedication from Dr. Maté to the person of your choice. PLUS A SIGNED LIMITED-EDITION DVD OF THE FILM.
ART PACKAGE - $3003 beautiful high-quality prints from the film, signed by cinematographer Mark Ellam. Audiences have been consistently awestruck by the beauty of the film’s cinematography- Avi Lewis (director of The Take) says “Mark paints on your eyeballs.” Mark Achbar (The Corporation) called the Jungle Prescription “gorgeous, groundbreaking.” Own these meticulously shot and crafted images, signed by Mark Ellam (Sample images here: http://bit.ly/xHEvmQ.) PLUS the SUPER COMBO PACKAGE (book, DVD, t-shirt, Songs of Ayahuasca and Poder Verde! CDs)
We want to thank all of you again for pledging, sharing, posting and spreading the word. A super-special thanks goes to Matthew Watherson at the Temple Of The Way of Light in Iquitos, Peru, for his noble support and generosity.
We ask for your help once more on our final push- if you could please re-post this last request to your like-minded friends & listeners, we would be hugely thankful!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ayadox/the-ayahuasca-project-the-jungle-prescription/
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Jeffrey Chaplin on March 21
Hey guys....just wondering about the rewards from the project. I haven't heard in a while and wondered if there was any updates?
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on January 6
Jerónimo M.M.
Posted project update #5NEW GOAL BY MONDAY JAN 9!
Post CommentWhen we started this campaign, we were advised to set a “reasonable amount” as our goal. But the mission of this film - a film that now belongs to you - goes beyond what is ‘reasonable’ - to what seemed once ‘impossible’. Our attempt with this project is to change a form of thinking that no longer serves: to imagine a world where the most logical medicines & substances are applied to our most dire of ailments - specifically those places where Western medicine has fallen short.
To you, the people who wish to create change at every level- we now dedicate this project. With your help, the capacity of this film can reach beyond what any of us could have imagined.
For this reason, we have set a new goal of $50 000 by Monday Jan 9 - and it seems attainable. We want to make this film as excellent and inspiring as it can be- and we need your help to do that.
To re-visit our characters, commission beautiful music & get it out in the world, is going to take work & capital. So this campaign isn’t over yet- we’ve got 3 days.And practically speaking, much can be done to help.Reconsider the rewards. We have new discounts available for every reward category. Send someone a remix cd of jungle cumbia. Add a DVD, CD, or book to your package. Let us take you to the Amazon! We have halved the price of the Jungle Expedition.
We have dedicated much of our lives to this cause, and we’re proud to have this community along with us on the adventure.
-Jero, Mark and Robin
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on January 5
Jerónimo M.M.
backed a project
Dragibus by Dragibus Publishing
Dragibus is a quarterly publication that focuses on the botany, cultivation, identification, and history of entheogenic plants.
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on January 4
Jerónimo M.M.
Posted project update #4Awesome news-!
We are awestruck by the (almost 500) wonderful backers who've brought us to our goal before our deadline of January 9th. We’re touched and amazed by your generosity. This film no longer belongs to us, it belongs to all of you.
Today we want to THANK YOU. As members of our core support community, you made this film possible, and you hold a special place in its creation- we love you! You will be the first to hear any news about the film -- what festival invites us for our world premiere, special events, behind-the-scenes stories; and you will all be thanked on our website and in the film (our higher-level donors will continue to have the special recognition they've pledged for).
We have 5 days to go and we are continuing to invite backers up to the very end. Many of you said that our goal of $40,000 was a relatively small goal for a film, and you were absolutely right. Since Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing proposition, we wanted to be realistic and make the goals attainable. The target we set will go a long way towards helping us complete the film, but it won't cover everything.
So we’re continuing to ask for your support. How far can we take this? All of our awesome rewards will be available for 5 more days. Every dollar we raise above the original goal will give us more money to fund the months-long process of completing this film, and help offset Kickstarter/Amazon fees. So please continue to pledge, spread the word on facebook, twitter etc. and share with friends. Help us make the project even better.
Thank you so much for being our community of support. There’s no way this could have been done without you.Love and thanks,
-Jero, Mark and Robin.
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Synnøve on January 5
Awesome!! :) Looking forward to seeing the doucumentary when finished! Keep up the good work <3
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Philippe Lucas on January 6
Fantastic! Congratulations, and well deserved after all of your amazing (and hard) work!
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commented on a project updateHi Jordan, It is as puzzling for me as it is for you, so I can only guess the answer. Go-go dancers are a permanent fixture of amazonian cumbia. So you never see a band without the dancers. My guess is that when it came time to do the ayahuasca video, they brought in the curanderos specially for the occasion, and the dancers were already there.... because they are always there. So they made do with each other. In the comments section of this post http://ayadoc.blogspot.com/2008/12/ayahusca-and-cumbia-peruana.html there is some discussion about all the sexual elements (not just in the video, but also in the song) between me and fukuro, who writes the Grandes de la Cumbia Peruana blog Here are the liner notes form a recent Juaneco compilation form the always great Barbes Records "None of the band members was actually of Shipibo origin, but they did identify with the tribe in very profound ways. It was almost a matter of local pride. Before the population boom of the 70s and 80s, Pucallpa was essentially a Shipibo town. The Shipibos made up a majority of the population, but more importantly, as the town's original inhabitants, they were the ones with a true understanding of the jungle. Juaneco y su Combo became the musical ambassadors of the selva (the jungle, which defines Pucallpa both geographically and culturally) and their style of music is still referred to as Cumbias Selvaticas. They dressed in traditional costumes and sang about the jungle, and to this day Juaneco is Pucallpa’s most famous export – oil and lumber being its most lucrative. Of all the musicians, it seems Noé Fachin identified the most with Shipibo culture. His nickname was El Brujo – the witch doctor – and he was known to take ayahuasca, the hallucinogenic drug used by Shipibo shamans. His reasons for indulging seemed quite similar to those of his contemporaries in California -- to seek a deeper, esoteric knowledge of oneself, get inspiration…and get high. He claimed that many of his songs came to him while he was under the influence of the drug." http://barbesrecords.com/juaneco.html Hope that helps Best, -J
Jerónimo M.M.
Madrid, Spain
For the past 10 years, Jerónimo M. M., together with Mark Ellam, and Robin McKenna, have been working on a documentary project exploring ethnobotany, pharmacology, and the roots of faith... a film that is now nearly done.
I agree as well. I would actually prefer just downloading the digital CD or DVD instead, as I don't have any physical media players. Maybe you could make a small survey or forum to see how many would prefer that more practical and economical alternative.
Congratulations on all the hard work! Bests!
Hey, no rush! The donation was the important thing - not the reward. And if I can download the DVD instead that works just fine for me. Easier storage that way anyway. And saves you money!
dear jeronimo,
i agree with above. if in your next post, you simply asked all backers if they would gladly accept a downloaded version of the music/dvd, this proposal would probably be welcomed and would be easy and cheap to setup.
you could emphasize that this option allows funds to go toward making the film, rather than on cd / dvd production and shipping costs, and allows for the gifts to reach our eyes and ears faster.
best wishes to you, mark, and all the crew...