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on May 8
Phoebe Brown
backed a project
Make Mine Country by Magic Lantern Pictures
A portrait of St. Lucia in the Caribbean, where classic American country music is more pervasive than any other style of music.
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107% funded $12,930 pledged
- 60 backers
- Funded May 21, 2012
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on April 19
Phoebe Brown
backed a project
Green Monster Debuts Funktional Dogwear in Vegas! by Jessica Pryor
Green Monster dogwear wants to bring funky, funktional style to dogs everywhere! We're making our debut in Vegas and you can come!
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101% funded $15,278 pledged
- 226 backers
- Funded Apr 20, 2012
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on April 10
Phoebe Brown
Posted project update #7Help Jess get wheels!
Post Comment"Grounded" is still making an impact -- we've screened in fests around the world and will be at Indie Grits in SC at the end of April-- a great fest and we've done a mini-fundraiser to bring Jessica with us for one last festival hurrah!
If Jessica had her own van we wouldn't still be reaching out for help. She has been teaching at Georgia Perimeter College and the trip takes her several hours each day on public transportation. In a car it's a 15-20 minute trip.
You can help her reach a new dream by voting for her in a contest to win a brand new accessible van. Read her pitch and vote here:
http://tinyurl.com/733g9aa
It's been incredible to share Jessica's story with the world and thank you all for helping us get off the ground.
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on April 4
Phoebe Brown
backed a project
BETRAYAL ! by milford earl thomas
A girlfriend's suspicions are confirmed when she busts her mortician boyfriend with another woman in the embalming room.
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113% funded $455 pledged
- 15 backers
- Funded Apr 08, 2012
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on March 2
Phoebe Brown
Posted project update #14Back from 4th trip to Kolkata
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on August 31, 2011
Phoebe Brown
backed a project
CLAIRE REVISITED: A 10 Year Celebration, A New Evolution by milford earl thomas
ORCHESTRA de LUNE reunites to accompany moving picture CLAIRE for special presentation in Atlanta, Georgia November 3.
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130% funded $4,055 pledged
- 58 backers
- Funded Sep 11, 2011
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on August 30, 2011
Phoebe Brown
commented on a project updateJust got this totally sweet response from backer Joan Gould: "Your video via Kickstarter just expanded my knowledge of the world so significantly. While I am here in my comfortable life the girls that you have introduced me to are living in the midst of what your video revealed. Oh, my! What a powerful 2.7 minutes or so of communication...more power to you in all your efforts on this project. You can help the world 'get it' via your documentary work....through your Unblinking Eye! Of course, I want to know more but this adds so much to the picture!" With video you can INVOLVE others....since the days when I worked in educational programs for the Little Rock School District I have held tightly to the saying: Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand. " Thanks Joan! This road can get very hard and sometimes thankless but this is why we keep going.
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on August 30, 2011
Phoebe Brown
Posted project update #13Doc News from The Cross Stitch Project
All of you bold backers should be getting direct messages regarding our doc progress but I want to just clarify the direction of the project. If you look through the updates you'll see back some time ago we parted ways with The Learning Tea Organization. We are still hard at work developing and shooting our documentary focusing on the issue of education for girls in India. This was the original focus of "The Learning Tea" doc and continues to be our main issue.
We are working with a great organization in Kolkata. The Trinita Society for Social and Health Research (www.TrinitaChildren.org) and have been doing media, art and design training with 34 girls in their program. Our goal is to incorporate the media that the kids are shooting into an interactive web-based doc platform that will include the footage we continue to shoot . Adding the interactive idea sent our budget up considerably but our long range vision is to create a really cool platform that dives into the layered and complex issues that create barriers to education for young women in India.
And to be 100% clear. While we've been developing and working under the banner of "The Cross Stitch Project" which is non-profit in nature and geared toward social entrepreneurship and girls media training, your funding has been entirely directed at building the documentary aspect of our work. Kickstarter is very straight up about not funding charity and we want you to know we respect that 100%. We are creative and social engaged people and sometimes our activism gets mixed with our creativity -- but all funding on Kickstarter is dedicated to the film--not the non-profit work.
Right now the bulk of our updates continue to be on the Cross Stitch Project website (www.CrossStitchProject.org)
As we build and grow the doc portion of the project -- a site will emerge for it. We are thinking the title will be "See Me"...but we'll updated you as things progress.
Our motto has become "keep moving forward"! We are amazed at what we've accomplished in just a year and know with continued effort we'll produce something really wonderful.
We appreciate everyone who has supported us from the very beginning and as we have continued to evolve our process -- you are getting a window into the wild and wooly world of documentary filmmaking!
Check out this video on my vimeo site: http://www.vimeo.com/25910615
We tested the GoPro cameras for an idea we have to create a 3-D experience of the Topsia slum neighborhood. It is a killer little camera. Great quality and super sneaky! (I downloaded this from my vimeo page so hopefully the quality will still come through)
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on June 17, 2011
Phoebe Brown
backed a project
The Light In Her Eyes by Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix
Documentary film about an inspiring female Qur’an teacher giving women the tools to challenge cultural traditions in Damascus, Syria.
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210% funded $21,041 pledged
- 260 backers
- Funded Sep 10, 2011
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on May 24, 2011
Phoebe Brown
backed a project
MY REINCARNATION by Jennifer Fox
Be the CATALYST. Spread MY REINCARNATION, an epic documentary about spirituality, family and destiny...
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300% funded $150,456 pledged
- 518 backers
- Funded May 28, 2011
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Phoebe Brown
Atlanta, GA
An independent filmmaker with an MFA in photography who has written, produced and directed numerous short documentary films. Phoebe Brown’s film "99 to 1: Ovarian Cancer and Me" has screened in festivals worldwide and won the Jury Prize f... view more
Just got this totally sweet response from backer Joan Gould:
"Your video via Kickstarter just expanded my knowledge of the world so significantly. While I am here in my comfortable life the girls that you have introduced me to are living in the midst of what your video revealed. Oh, my! What a powerful 2.7 minutes or so of communication...more power to you in all your efforts on this project. You can help the world 'get it' via your documentary work....through your Unblinking Eye!
Of course, I want to know more but this adds so much to the picture!"
With video you can INVOLVE others....since the days when I worked in educational programs for the Little Rock School District I have held tightly to the saying:
Tell me and I will forget.
Show me and I will remember.
Involve me and I will understand. "
Thanks Joan! This road can get very hard and sometimes thankless but this is why we keep going.