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on September 21, 2011
Claire Andrade-Watkins
backed a project
Far From Afghanistan by John Gianvito
Five accomplished, politically progressive filmmakers come together to raise the collective consciousness on the Afghanistan War.
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100% funded $25,004 pledged
- 189 backers
- Funded Oct 16, 2011
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on May 5, 2011
Claire Andrade-Watkins
Posted project update #9WRAPPING UP KICKSTARTER AND MOVING ON!!
Post CommentHello Everyone!!
Thank you all again for all your support so far-we appreciate every contribution we’ve received so far, from $1 to $1,000 to $5,000. The kickstarter project ends today, May 6 at l:l7AM: but understand that hitting or not hitting the $50,000 goal for kickstarter does NOT mean the project dies or ends.
We’re now at @ $18,270+ of donations that have come in during this kickstarter project. That’s almost TWICE what we’d get from a traditional grant process. However, to make sure we still get your donation, we need you to transfer your donation to our fiscal agent for the project.
What happens now?
Remember your credit card will only be charged if we reach the target of $50K. Unless a surprise angel swoops in today with a $32,000 donation, we will not reach the goal, and your card will NOT be charged-which means no funds will go to Altantic Portals. SO, please take a moment transfer your pledge directly to the Center of Independent Documentary(CID) (the fiscal agent of the film) and you will still receive whatever reward you are signed up for. Your tax-deductible donation to kickstarter through amazon.com was going directly into CID anyway. Now we are not part of the kickstarter we are returning to our regular means of accepting donations, which is directly to CID.
This kickstarter is only a PART of what we’re been doing over the years to fundraise for our project. What it has done is given us whole new level of visibility for Atlantic Portals and fundraising, using social online media and connected us directly to you, the donor. Now we can continue to roll out on this momentum through our normal direct donations through CID.
It will only take you a few moments, and is very easy to make your donation for Atlantic Portals(still tax-deductible) to the Center for Independent Documentary, the 501c3 non-profit umbrella for Atlantic Portals.
For secure online payment through paypal:
go to http://documentaries.org/cid-films/atlantic-portals/
Or if you prefer snail mail,
Make the check out to Center for Independent Documentary, with Atlantic Portals in the memo line:
the address is:
Susi Walsh, Director
Center for Independent Documentary
680 South Main St.
Sharon, MA 02067
Phone: 781-364-3627
Their tax exempt number is: 042-738-458
What happens to my credit card information that I used to make my pledge to kickstarter through amazon.com?
The credit card information entered is stored in the users Amazon account. If you want to remove it, you have the ability to do so. In turn, you will not be charged unless the project is successful.
GOING FORWARD :
PLEASE EMAIL US DIRECTLY @spiamedia@gmail.com so we can contact you post-kickstarter as well as getting additional contact information to send you your reward.
.once we receive your donations at CID we will send you whatever kickstarter reward you were receiving.
.we will continue to use the rewards we developed for kickstarter as we continue to fundraise through donations to Center for Independent Documentary(CID). Those awards will be listed both on the CID page for Atlantic Portals: http://documentaries.org/cid-films/atlantic-portals/ as well as at www.atlanticportals.com
UPDATES:
We will also keep you abreast of the progress of our post-production as we move forward through our Atlantic Portals facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Atlantic-Portals/127286554010316.
LOOKING FORWARD:
A reminder of where Atlantic Portals, WITH your support, and upon completion, is headed:
October 2011, the World Premiere at the CVIFF(Cape Verdean International Film Festival); and this just in, the North American/USA Premiere at the MFA in Boston in early December-- five years after the triumphant sold out premiere in 2006 of "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?"—followed by a RI PBS broadcast on WSBE TV 36.
This is pretty impressive for a little story with grassroots support and a big heart!
How to continue to support the project.
.Encouage people to donate. This is the link that will take them to Center for Independent Documentary www.atlanticportals.com
. Contact me directly @ spiamedia@gmail.com if you would like to do a fundraiser in their communities.
Thank you!!!!
Claire and the Atlantic Portals team
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on May 3, 2011
Claire Andrade-Watkins
Posted project update #8$5,000 donation today + more! @ $18,000 +
Post CommentThank you for an the anonymous $5,000 donation today! Also to the Michelle Reinstein, Bridgit Brown and Harold Taylor who also contributed and helped push us closer to our goal.
A reminder of where Atlantic Portals is headed when it is completed. World Premiere, October 2011 at the CVIFF(Cape Verdean International Film Festival), and today word from the MFA in Boston as the venue for the North American premiere in early December, following five years after the triumphant sold out premiere in 2006 of "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?" Following the N. American premiere at the MFA we'll be headed to a RI PBS broadcast on WSBE TV 36. This is pretty impressive for a little story with grassroots support and a big heart!
YOUR SUPPORT AND CONTRIBUTIONS MEAN WE WILL MAKE IT to the finish line. Spread the word as we come down the home stretch and let's see how far we can go!!
I'll be sending an update Thursday about status of the project and our next steps. But until then, we keep on keepin' on!
Thank you!!
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on April 28, 2011
Claire Andrade-Watkins
Posted project update #7New awards and other "stuff"
Post CommentHi Everyone,
More wonderful Cape Verdean music is our new reward offering for our Atlantic Portals kickstarter! The CD "Porton de Regresso " from the internationally renowned Mendes Brothers!
http://www.facebook.com/mendes.brothers
YOU’LL RECEIVE THEIR CD FOR A MINIMUM DONATION OF $100.00 PLUS ALL OTHER REWARDS LISTED UNDER “ATLANTICO” AND EARLIER SPECIAL AWARD, $15.00 OFF ENTRÉE AT ROSINHA’S RESTAURANT.
Can't tell you yet, but we have some great news headed our way about a pretty significant donation. All I'll say right now is that it will get us over the l7K mark! Check back in later this week. We'll also have more wonderful rewards.
We're coming down the home stretch here for our kickstarter and its been great! There are so many new avenues and connections this kickstarter is opening up, and its only the beginning! Like to also take a moment to thank Ron Locke, Andrea Cabral, Joaquim Ramos, Hilary Hurd Anayso, Mark and Andrew Green, and Pete Chvany for their donations!
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on April 23, 2011
Claire Andrade-Watkins
Posted project update #6Nice feature article in Bay State Banner
First of all, I wish everyone who celebrates the occasion a nice Easter and time with their families this weekend. I want to share with you a feature on me/the project that came out this past Thursday.
http://www.baystatebanner.com/natl18-2011-04-21
If you have a moment, please post a comment about your support for this kickstarter. A lot of folks read those comments, and it can bring more donors to the project.We've got quite a sprint over the next l4 days to get to our target, and we're going to keep pushing up to the midnight hour. We are learning how to do this as we do it, and again special thanks to all the folks who have worked to put this kickstarter project together, and a special shout out to Rafiah and Jamal(Emerson and Brown alum respectively)who are holding up the digital/web/fb end, and to Callie, for her moral support, encouragement and advice as the de facto kickstarter home team member and "mother protector."
As we focus on RUNNIGGG for the $$$, I wanted to step back for a second and remind myself, Why ARE we doing kickstarter? To tell a story. An important story. Forty years ago something very bad happened. A community vanished. In the telling of the story of that community, SKFPR stumbled into one of the biggest tragedies of 20th century urban development- the displacement of three generations of Cape Verdeans: a thriving and unique community of the Africana Diaspora: totally destroyed in what is now recognized as a “flawed” model of urban renewal and gentrification.
Today, fifty years later, the last of the physical traces of that community in Fox Point are gone. The only record of the memory, voices, history and culture is in SKFPR. In the telling of SKFPR is a powerful reminder of what can happen to a community caught unaware and under-prepared. It was a story that had to be told and has to be heard.
You can’t find Cape Verdeans on the census. We don’t “count.” It is very hard for us to register on the radar of the wider population-we are an under-represented and under-served population in the telling of our story. But to get our story told we must convince those making funding decisions that we exist, or our story is important enough! It is this peculiar predicament that makes kickstarter count. You, the donor or friend and supporter of SKFPR and SPIA is deciding that this is a story that must be heard. Atlantic Portals finishes the story of the demise of the CV community 50 years ago, then relocates the community in the present, as it the descendants of the “old” Fox Point carve a space in the memory and community of the Fox Point of today. This is also the last chance for those of us who lived it to tell this story. Once we’re gone, that’s it. And the ranks are thinning fast. It took over ten years to scrape together the resources to finish SKFPR. Its even harder and more competitive in these times to raise money for projects. Reaching the Kickstarter goal for Atlantic Portals with your help means we can get it made, this year-not ten.
Easter was my mother's favorite time the year. A gifted, talented, self-taught musician, with a beautiful alto voice, at this time of year our house on 26 Planet St. in Fox Point would be full of the sounds of my mother playing the piano and singing Easter hymns. She had given me a small locket once with a mustard seed in it, and said always "remember, have the faith of the mustard seed." I now understand what that means...have faith, stay the course, and like the mustard seed dreams and hopes can lay dormant for a loooonnnng time, but still awaken and grow. That is what SKFPR and Atlantic Portals and down the line Working the Boats represent, a journey of faith, hope and love. Thanks again for being part of the journey.
Claire
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on April 17, 2011
Claire Andrade-Watkins
Posted project update #5PUT ON YOUR DANCIN' SHOES!!! WE RECEIVED A $1,000 CONTRIBUTION FOR THE SPECIAL REWARD, "KITCHEN DANCE"
Post CommentTHANK YOU Mary Canning! We're at $9100, please increase your pledge, if you can...90 folks @$10 will get us to $10,000, A great way to roll into the week!
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on April 16, 2011
Claire Andrade-Watkins
Posted project update #4oops!
Hi Again Everybody,
Sorry to be dumping another email in your "in box" so soon. However, someone caught something in the update I want to make clearer. When I say "...It(AP kickstarter) will be the first crowd sourced project solely driven by Cape Verdeans ..." I mean, the first crowd sourced project solely driven by Cape Verdean REWARDS-small businesses and artists. Our supporters and donors represent a broad demographic of CV's and non-CV's!!
Anything else I might have missed, or if you have an idea for me @ outreach, contacts, or, or, or, send me an email at: spiamedia@gmail.com
Thanks!
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Mary Canning on April 16, 2011
I hope that someone commits to your special reward of the house party music "kitchen dance."
We hope that we can host in the Fall a $1000 "kitchen dance" with CV musicians (Zerui dePina, and his group). In the old days, musicians (guitar, violins), come to homes down the point, move stuff out of the kitchen(sometimes the stove) and play CV(now classic) music, sing, food dance. We sent out an email last weekend w/ the reward.. They will go to a home in RI/CT/MA (I go and bring a pot of jag)...basically a FAB world music house party. If somebody has a nice enough space, get @ 30-40 folks kick in 30 bucks, for a fab private "live" concert plus dancing, dancing, dancing.... -
Mary Canning on April 16, 2011
OK leaf peepers, get ready for a Cape Verde ho-down in the North Quabbin Woods west of Boston!
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on April 16, 2011
Claire Andrade-Watkins
Posted project update #3History in the making....gotta keep it coming!
Post CommentHello Good People,
Thanks to all of you we are close to $8500. This whole kickstarter process/project is a huge “learning as you” go experience-and the two people sitting here reading the manual as we go are myself and Rafiah, a volunteer and fabulous Emerson student. My daughter Callie is keeping a sharp eye on things and helping me focus on strategy. All of us have been off the mark this week in keeping up with kickstarter due to the passing of a beloved elder/Aunt earlier this week(Wednesday). We have lost 4 Andrade Aunts and Uncles since January. And several other venerables/elders from the community at the same time. That whole generation, their hearts beat as one. We've been going to funerals non-stop since January. We're reeling.
$8500 might seem like a long way to go to get to $50,000-but from where I sit that $8500 is like, Wow! Understand that in the normal world of granting/writing, to get that much would have meant spending 2-3 months preparing, writing and submitting a major grant application, then waiting anywhere from 3-6 months before I heard. And 6 out of 10 times I don’t get the grant, or if you ask for $10K, you might be awarded only half to three-quarters. Kickstarter has demonstrated that it’s possible to go STRAIGHT to the people and get immediate results. After only three weeks, I'm already close to or surpassing what normally I MIGHT get after 3-6 months of hard work...and waiting!
What’s been magic is that I’m out there connecting with people, dropping off flyers, talking about kickstarter, and I'm finding out how much the SKFPR documentary meant to folks I don’t get to meet because I’m hunkered down writing grants, worrying about the next step and working full-time while doing all of this. And there are a lot of NEW people who are finding their way to us and vice versa.
Kickstarter is also letting different communities that have been involved in this project over time connect. And what I see is how it is also building our community. All of us, Tony Neves (Neves Travel), Candida Rose, Maria de Barros, Suely Neves of the CVIFF, Zerui de Pina (new reward) and Rosinha and Carlos of Rosinha’s restaurant are huge presences in our community, tireless supporters of community projects, and we all try to support and encourage each other as much as possible.
Kickstarter is a stretch for all of us. We’re doing as we’re learning. Suely just got the CVIFF website site up (www.cviff.org), Candida Rose has been schooling me in figuring out how to use fb as well as getting word out there about her new CD. Maria deBarros was off to Italy to record one of her songs in Italian for Sony/Italy. Tony Neves is working on several important travel package initiatives between Cape Verde and the USA who also has managed to squeeze out a package for one of our rewards, Rosinha’s, is a family run business, and Roshina and her husband Carlos are working 24/7 plus Carlos is trying to finish his PhD. He left school yesterday to run to deliver manchupa and gofong to a screening of Tony Ramos' documentary "Mao Meets Muddy" at CSREA/Brown in Providence.
http://www.projo.com/movies/content/MV_Movie_Shorts_04-15-11_T9NH5KC_v9.4f50b06.html
Jamal Carvalho, another wonderful volunteer working w/ the FPCVP(Fox Point Cape Verdean Project) updated our website and included our kickstarter.
www.foxpointcapeverdeanproject.com . Check it out. This documentary trilogy, SFKPR, Atlantic Portals and Working the Boats(the last in the trilogy and the one we jump on to finish after we wrap Atlantic Portals)are part of a larger, multi-faceted long term project of building a sustainable legacy of Cape Verdean(Fox Point and beyond) history and culture.
Every dollar raised through kickstarter is building our community. That $50K means that our artists and small businesses supporting this initiative will benefit. This means a lot in these tough economic times, especially for small businesses and artists.
We’re breaking trail with this Kickstarter project. We hit that $50K we will make history. It will be the first crowd sourced project solely driven by Cape Verdeans that allows us to get to be “visible” instead of being swallowed up in the bigger world: being able to bring this attention to our small businesses, artists and important cultural/historical initiatives to a broader audience is HUGE.
Here’s how you can help us reach that 50K between now and May 5:
-this weekend, let’s pass the $10K mark. Backers are not always aware that they can do in and INCREASE their pledge once they’re made the initial pledge.
• so this weekend, to help give us a boost, if you can, increase your pledge by at least $10 to $100. We have 90 backers so that gets us to the l0K.
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•some people don’t know how to do online, prefer to do a check. If you have friends like that or only can catch someone in a rush on the fly TAKE THE MONEY OR CHECK. Have them make out the check to you. You go online to kickstarter and increase your donation by that amount. When the project is funded on May 5(and we are going to make it, right?) then you deposit their check.
•keep checking in on our Atlantic Portals Documentary fb page. We have new rewards and new photo albums(just added albums from Providence premiere, Nantucket and Onset) and updates posted there.
www.facebook.com/editprofile.php?sk=basic&success=1#!/pages/Atlantic-Portals/127286554010316
•send the Atlantic Portals fb link to friends, family, colleagues and ask them to hit “like”
*the goal for next week for myself and a couple of key FPCVP (Fox Point Cape Verdean Project) friends will be working on identifying sponsors or donors who might be able to do $1000+ donations or match donations (i.e., they’ll give a $1000 if we can get $1000 worth of pledges). We need you please to dig into your network .If you know of any sponsors, companies that might contribute on come on board please contact them or give me the info.
•if you’re a college student, get students in your classes, or organizations to make it a goal to have everyone do at least $1
***WE HAVE A FABULOUS SPECIAL AWARD, THE “KITCHEN DANCE” WITH ACCLAIMED CV MUSICIAN ZERUI DEPINA AND HIS GROUP still hanging out there. Let’s make that happen!!! For $1,000 they’ll come to your HOME and do what is basically a private concert/party. That’s getting @ 40 friends to kick in @ $25 to come to a party. That’s less that two movie tickets to Loews!!! Plan it around a special event or birthday or a surprise for somebody, an anniversary. Anybody who likes to listen to good music and DANCE.
**WE have a NEW REWARD for a $100 donation. $15.00 off entrée at Rosinha’s Restaurant (offer good between June 1 and August 31), in addition to other kickstarter $100 rewards
We are making history w/ this kickstarter. And we need this kickstarter to get the history made!!!
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on April 9, 2011
Claire Andrade-Watkins
commented on a projectProfessor Ray Carney, Boston University, graciously gave me permission to share the comments he sent to one of my colleagues @ SKFPR after it aired on WSBE RI PBS on March 26 and March 27. ---"...... I meant to tell you that, for the second time, I viewed an amazing documentary made by one of your faculty, Claire Andrade-Watkins about growing up in Providence Rhode Island in the "black Portuguese" community/ghetto. Title: “Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?" Just a marvelous piece of work. The whole rounded story. Truth from every angle, full of joy, anger, nostalgia, dread, fear, and life to the max! So rare not to have reality ground down to fit a thesis or a racial or sexual grudge. Andrade-Watkins gets it all: the boys in the Boys Club, the men in the bars, the music, the dancing, the loving, the hard hard work of a longshoreman, the horrible hours, the joyous weekends, the families at home and at church, the awfulness of urban renewal, the kindness of a few caring politicians..... Everything........ They(RI PBS) can't afford to show the expensive Ken Burns things that Channel 2 does, so they show these low budget indie small scale docs at midnight. And they are all amazing, amazing, amazing. But Claire's took the prize. Now if you know her, or if she's still there, tell her how amazing she is......." Ray Ray Carney, Prof. of Film and American Studies Author of: The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism and the Movies (Cambridge University Press); The Films of Mike Leigh: Embracing the World (Cambridge University Press); Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Cambridge University Press); American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra (Cambridge University Press); American Dreaming (University of California Press at Berkeley); Shadows (British Film Institute/Macmillan); Cassavetes on Cassavetes (Faber and Faber/Farrar, Straus); The Adventure of Insecurity; Necessary Experiences; Why Art Matters; and other books, essays, and editions. Ray Carney's web site--"The Independent Film Pages" http://www.Cassavetes.com
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on April 9, 2011
Claire Andrade-Watkins
Posted project update #2Kitchen Dance anyone?
We're coming into this weekend @ $7,000! THANK YOU ALL!! But we've got to pick up the pace to meet our goal by May 5! This weekend we want to get to $10,000 minimum.
To help us get there, we are announcing a SPECIAL REWARD(only one) for a $1,000 donation/contribution to kickstarter, thanks to acclaimed Cape Verdean musician and cultural activist Zerui Depina. http://www.facebook.com/zerui.depina.
He and his group will go do a "kitchen dance" at the home of the donor(RI/MA/CT only). In the "old days" down the Point there were "kitchen dances" on the weekends, where musicians bring their guitars and violins into homes/kitchens-great Crioulo music, dancing, jag, canja, manchupa. Atlantic Portals director will tag along and bring a pot of jagacaida(CV soul food). Sabe!
Visit the Atlantic Portals Facebook Page for more info and further updates, including new rewards!!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Atlantic-Portals/127286554010316
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Callie and Mark on April 9, 2011
That sounds like a really fun prize! It would be great if a group of people got together for this. I'd be interested...
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Claire Andrade-Watkins
Brookline, MA
Filmmaker, historian and second-generation Cape Verdean born and raised in Fox Point. I am an Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, and since 2007, I am a Visiting Scholar at Brown University in the Center for the Study of ... view more
This is beautiful.