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Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on April 16, 2010.

New Booking!

Update #3 · Mar 24, 2010 · comment

The Gene Siskel Center in Chicago has just booked a run of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo! We add this to a list of other great theaters around the US that will play Beetle Queen, including the Denver Film Society in Denver, Colorado; The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts; The Light Factory in Charlotte, North Carolina; the Museum of Art in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and of course, our opening at Film Forum in New York on May 12th!

Your donations are now that much more critical. In order to coordinate these bookings and others, we need to reach our goal! Your donation will enable us to reach more theaters and more people. People like you. Want to see Beetle Queen in a theater near you? Pledge! (And petition your local theater, museum or university to show our film!)

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  • Pledge $10 or more

    7 backers

    Beetle Queen postcard and one gummy bug candy (I choose for you: roach, fly, centipede or spider, but please, don’t take it personally)

  • Pledge $20 or more

    49 backers

    Your name on the very special Thank You page of the Beetle Queen website (will launch after we have reached our goal) and a notebook from Muji, with a hand-stenciled bug cover by Jessica Oreck + the above

  • Pledge $50 or more

    13 backers

    Large 39” x 27” original Beetle Queen poster + all of the above

  • Pledge $75 or more

    4 backers All gone!

    Clear vinyl Japanese tote bag printed with 2 different beetles and the well-translated phrase, "Eternal Rivals Beetle" + all of the above

  • Pledge $100 or more

    8 backers

    A DVD copy of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo signed by the director (before it’s released!) + all of the above

  • Pledge $125 or more

    3 backers

    A mix CD of my favorite obscure Japanese technopop from the '80's that inspired the film + all of the above

  • Pledge $150 or more

    4 backers

    Official Beetle Queen T-shirt + all of the above

  • Pledge $200 or more

    3 backers

    Beetle Queen CD soundtrack, signed by the composers of the score, JC Morrison and Nate Shaw + all of the above

  • Pledge $300 or more

    1 backer

    Hand-pinned Morpho butterfly by Jessica Oreck in small, black shadow box

  • Pledge $500 or more

    0 backers

    One very limited-edition paperback, full-color book of stills from the film, signed by cinematographer Sean Williams

  • Pledge $1,000 or more

    2 backers

    The ultimate grab bag – a DVD copy of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo signed by the director, an official t-shirt, the CD soundtrack (also signed by composers), the film’s poster + limited-edition paperback of stills from the film signed by cinematographer Sean Williams – yes, this is an autograph heavy choice – but someday we will all be famous and then you’ll be so happy you picked this one!

  • Pledge $2,000 or more

    0 backers

    VIP tickets to THE theatrical premiere of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo at Film Forum on May 12 in NYC, and a personal tour of the American Museum of Natural History, where Jessica Oreck works as a docent and animal keeper + dinner at my favorite Japanese restaurant in NY (if you aren’t sick of me by then)

  • Pledge $5,000 or more

    0 backers

    Four VIP tickets to theatrical screening of your choice and dinner for four with Jessica Oreck at a Japanese restaurant near the screening

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