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Update #8: Additional screening of BOTSO at the BAY THEATRE on Feb 26th
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Update #7: Special BOTSO Screening at the Bay Theatre
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Update #6: WE DID IT!
As of 11:30 a.m. today, BOTSO is now fully funded on Kickstarter!
We're excited about getting back to completing this film, and can't thank you enough for all of your kind support!
A short addendum -- please note that our Kickstarter launch will remain active until this Friday evening... any additional pledges will be used to help pay for postage and shipping of rewards (books, tee-shirts and sweatshirts), as well as any additional expenses we'll incur in the editing and post-production of BOTSO.
Best regards,
Tom and Hilary
Update #5: BOTSO FILM LANDS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
We have our first Executive Producer!
Joanne Storkan, co-founder of Honest Engine Films, has been so moved by Botso’s story that she stepped up with a very generous contribution.
Now – with JUST SIX DAYS to go on Kickstarter – we’re only about $1,200 from our goal! Please spread the word -- or help push us over the top if you can!
In other Botso news, 14-year-old Salome Jordania, a remarkable young cultural ambassador from the Republic of Georgia, will be making her American concert debut with the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony this Sunday, May 15, at the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center in SLO.
Salome will be performing Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos with Karin Kei Nagano, daughter of
famed conductor (and former Botso student) Kent Nagano, and his wife, pianist
Mari Kodama. Find out more, including ticket info, at
sloyouthsymphony.org.
Salome worked with Botso this afternoon in his studio and we were able to catch some of it on film. Absolutely precious!
Again, thanks for your support,
Tom and Hilary
Update #4: APPROACHING OUR GOAL!
Our Kickstarter launch has now raised more than $8000 – and along with that, here’s a wonderful announcement:
A group of generous donors has provided the necessary matching funds once we reach our $10,000 mark! This means that if we can raise $2,000 in the next SIXTEEN DAYS, we will absolutely reach our $20,000 goal! Hopefully we can even go higher!
If you want to support this final effort, we encourage you to do so soon! All donations are 100 percent tax-deductible. And please spread the word to others that you know. We are excited about getting back to finishing our work on BOTSO!
Also of note: Botso is hosting 14-year old piano prodigy Salome Jordania from the Republic of Georgia later this month. Jordania will be featured at the season finale San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony concert on Sunday, May 15, at the Performing Arts Center in SLO.
Performing with Salome will be Karin Kei Nagano, also 14, and the daughter of conductor/six-time Grammy winner Kent Nagano and concert pianist Mari Kodama.
Salome’s father, a famous Georgian conductor, found out about Botso via news of our movie – another wonderful spin-off of our getting word out on a global level.
For concert and ticket information go to: http://sloyouthsymphony.org/
Again, thanks for your kind support!
Tom and Hilary
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Autographed copy of “Memories of a Teaching Life in Music,” the newly published memoir by Wachtang Botso Korisheli. Copy of BOTSO DVD Listing in film credits as Major Contributor. Invitation to the BOTSO California premier and party,
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Director/Producer Thomas Walters has produced and directed more than 50 educational films and two internationally distributed documentaries, "Therapeutic Community" and "Evolution of a Group." Clients have included Wadsworth Publishing, Thomson Learning, and Jobson Publishing.
Writer/Producer Hilary Grant is a veteran documentary producer whose network television credits include the multi-Emmy nominated "Unsolved Mysteries," the Sci-Fi Channel hit "Sightings" and "Against All Odds." She is also a former circus clown and print journalist, with bylines in publications including "People," "Seventeen," "Ms." and "Westways."
