About this project
Chicken Fat is a feature length documentary about the legacy of MAD Magazine's seminal artist Will Elder. It is on it's way to being completed in 2011. We already have interviewed an impressive array of artists, writers, publishers and pop-culture experts which you can see by visiting www.ChickenFat.tv . Your donations will be used to complete our production interviews with Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner; American author, screenwriter and artist, Daniel Clowes; Film Director, Joe Dante and William Stout, one of the few artists who worked with Will on Playboy's Little Annie Fanny. To date this project has been funded using a generous grant from the Laurie Foundation and my own hard-earned cash! Once these interviews are complete we hit the edit room and plan to have a completed documentary by year's end. Any donation, no matter how small, is very much appreciated!
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A dvd of the finished documentary and a copy of Chicken Fat, the book.
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DVD, Chicken Fat book and The Mad Playboy of Art - coffee table art book of Will Elder's life.
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DVD, two books and an "I Love Chicken Fat" T-shirt.
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All of the above and a framed 8 x 10 print of a rare Elder work of art
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Gary VandenBergh is an award-winning Producer/Editor and owner of Complete Montage, LLC. Gary is currently editing documentaries for the long form unit at CNBC. Credits include: "Remington Under Fire", "The Price of Admission: America's College Debt Crisis" the open for "Ford: Re-inventing an American Icon" and currently a project about the Tobacco business in our no-smoking culture - set to air the first week of March.
Gary has been producing, editing, color correcting and finishing commercials, Independent films, documentaries, television shows, promos, sales and marketing programs since 1985. You can see samples of Gary’s work at www.completemontage.com. A credit roll, reel and other odds and ends at www.youtube.com/gmontage.
In addition, in 2003 Gary co-wrote and compiled the coffee-table art book, "Will Elder: The Mad Playboy of Art". He also wrote and produced Will’s follow-up book in 2005, "Chicken Fat". Both published by Fantagraphics Books, Inc.
