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Adam Baran

Brooklyn, NY

Adam Baran is a NYC-based writer/director with a passion for telling queer stories in unique, risk-taking ways. His short films Jinx! and Love and Deaf, screened at LGBT film festivals worldwide, and aired on the IFC Channel and Here! TV. Love and Deaf... view more

  1. The Lost Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis Restoration Project by Process Blue: Side Projects

    We are seeking funds to help restore and preserve three long-lost sexploitation films by acclaimed Director, Herschel Gordon Lewis.

    • 75% funded $7,557 pledged
    • 105 backers
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  2. IN SEARCH OF AVERY WILLARD by Cary Kehayan

    This intimate documentary portrait uncovers the life and work of a groundbreaking yet forgotten queer artist.

    • 41% funded $1,450 pledged
    • 30 backers
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    SILVER WELLS -a new CD from Mx Justin Vivian Bond by Justin Bond

    SILVER WELLS is an intimate collection of epistolary exultations interpreted by Mx Justin Vivian Bond and produced by Thomas Bartlett

    • 117% funded $18,736 pledged
    • 345 backers
    • Funded May 11, 2012
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    IN THEIR ROOM - LONDON by Travis Mathews

    an ongoing multi-city series about gay men, bedrooms and intimacy.

    • 101% funded $12,195 pledged
    • 151 backers
    • Funded Apr 05, 2012
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    Alt Screen: New York's Alternative Movie Hub by Paul Brunick

    Discover NYC films playing outside the multiplex and under the radar. Daily event listings, curated coverage, original essays.

    • 100% funded $16,000 pledged
    • 265 backers
    • Funded Feb 17, 2012
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    The Slope: Superficial, Homophobic Lesbians by Desiree Akhavan

    The Slope is a comedy that follows the lives of a lesbian couple navigating their way through the cliche that is Park Slope, Brooklyn.

    • 105% funded $8,415 pledged
    • 207 backers
    • Funded Dec 16, 2011
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    Elastic City: 2012 Season of Artist-Led Walks by Todd Shalom

    Elastic City commissions artists to lead conceptual and poetic walks throughout and outside of NYC. Please support our 2012 season.

    • 100% funded $25,143 pledged
    • 274 backers
    • Funded Nov 11, 2011
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    The Starlite Project: Starlite (We Came to Sweat) by Kate Kunath and Sasha Wortzel

    Starlite is a film about Brooklyn's legendary black-owned non-discriminating and LGBTQ-friendly bar est. in 1959.

    • 105% funded $26,304 pledged
    • 387 backers
    • Funded Dec 05, 2011
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    Earth Camp One by Jennie Livingston

    A new film by the director of PARIS IS BURNING, EARTH CAMP ONE is about grief, a hippie summer camp in the 1970s, and the afterlife.

    • 105% funded $42,316 pledged
    • 540 backers
    • Funded Nov 11, 2011
  10. Lesbians of Long Island by Beryl Fine

    A story of my aunts' adoration for one another. Lisa and Lois are a dynamic duo of smart-ass antics, crass demeanor and dark humor.

    Funding Unsuccessful (10/01/2011)
  11. The Projectionist - a Queer Film Action from Jerry Tartaglia by Jerry Tartaglia

    THE PROJECTIONIST - the 3rd installment of Jerry Tartaglia's Queer Film Action- 16 & 8mm film meet digi projection & live performance.

    Funding Unsuccessful (09/30/2011)
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    Dirty Looks, a queer screening series by Bradford

    A Monthly Platform for Queer Experimental Film and Video

    • 102% funded $5,117 pledged
    • 91 backers
    • Funded Aug 20, 2011
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    Trans Time by Xavi Marrades

    A personal documentary in which the director takes stock of his years in NY

    • 106% funded $8,489 pledged
    • 94 backers
    • Funded Dec 16, 2010