Tara Wray and Josh Melrod

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Tara Wray and Josh Melrod

White River Junction, VT

Tara Wray (Director, Producer, Camera): Tara’s first film, an autobiographical documentary titled Manhattan, Kansas, premiered at the 2006 SXSW Film Festival where it received an audience award. It went on to screen at New York’s Lincoln Center, and f... view more

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BarnArts Center for the Arts by Jarvis Green

A year round performance arts program utilizing local and national recognized artists, adults, and children in a rural community.
- Performance Art
- Barnard, VT
- 106% funded $10,623 pledged
- 117 backers
- Funded Apr 12, 2012
Ross McElwee's latest documentary film: Photographic Memory by Ross McElwee & Marie Hartness

Remember McElwee’s epic road movie Sherman’s March, the film that started it all? See how Ross got started. New film: In France.
- Documentary
- Boston, MA
Funding Unsuccessful (03/08/2012)
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Happy Inside by Amy Lombard

Happy Inside is a book project by artist Amy Lombard of photographs made in the showroom of IKEA.
- Photography
- Brooklyn, NY
- 129% funded $6,451 pledged
- 184 backers
- Funded Mar 09, 2012
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Looking at Zion: a photo project about Mormon culture by Michael Friberg

A year long photographic and multimedia documentary looking at Mormon culture and history in Utah.
- Photography
- Salt Lake City, UT
- 103% funded $2,900 pledged
- 51 backers
- Funded Nov 26, 2011
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Voyage to Amasia by Randy Bell and Eric V. Hachikian

Voyage to Amasia is a feature documentary about the Armenian Genocide inspired by Eric Hachikian's piano trio of the same name.
- Documentary
- New York, NY
- 126% funded $6,330 pledged
- 81 backers
- Funded May 03, 2011
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Lies Grown-ups Told Me by Nomi Kane

"Lies Grown-ups Told Me" is a comedy packed comics anthology about the endearing, and sometimes enduring, gullibility of youth.
- Comics
- White River Junction, VT
- 259% funded $2,597 pledged
- 122 backers
- Funded Apr 23, 2011
Iron Horse: The Legend of Lou Gehrig (Feature Documentary Film Script) by Longshot Productions

The definitive documentary portrait of the life and death of the great Yankee slugger, American icon, and baseball hero.
- Documentary
Funding Unsuccessful (05/07/2010)
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Open Secret by Steve Lickteig

What if everything you knew about yourself and your family turned out to be a lie? And everyone knew the truth except you?
- Documentary
- 167% funded $8,380 pledged
- 111 backers
- Funded Feb 16, 2010
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LaPorte, Indiana. Our feature doc film needs your love! by Joe Beshenkovsky and Jason Bitner

From 18,000 portraits discovered in a Midwestern diner, we share the vivid stories which create this tight-knit community...
- Documentary
- New York, NY
- 162% funded $12,152 pledged
- 149 backers
- Funded Aug 21, 2009

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Tara Wray and Josh Melrod

BarnArts Center for the Arts by Jarvis Green

Ross McElwee's latest documentary film: Photographic Memory by Ross McElwee & Marie Hartness

Happy Inside by Amy Lombard

Looking at Zion: a photo project about Mormon culture by Michael Friberg

Voyage to Amasia by Randy Bell and Eric V. Hachikian

Lies Grown-ups Told Me by Nomi Kane

Iron Horse: The Legend of Lou Gehrig (Feature Documentary Film Script) by Longshot Productions

Open Secret by Steve Lickteig

LaPorte, Indiana. Our feature doc film needs your love! by Joe Beshenkovsky and Jason Bitner

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