About this project
We reached our goal with your generous help!!
Thanks to everyone who has donated and supported us. We are forever grateful...and you'll be receiving your rewards once the film is complete and set for release. Stay tuned.
Additional donations are still needed and appreciated! Our estimate is that to finish the film will cost $15,000-25,000, depending on how thorough we are. Every additional dollar gets us that much closer to making this movie as good as it can be.
ABOUT THE FILM
A new breed of crime-fighter now stalks the urban landscape: the anti-graffiti vigilante. These dedicated blight warriors stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods and cities of street art, stickers, tags, and posters. Many of these vigilantes have become the very menace they want to eliminate. In their relentless attempt to stamp out graffiti, they've turned to illegally and destructively painting other people's property. VIGILANTE VIGILANTE is the story of two filmmakers who set out to expose these mysterious characters and discover a battle of expression that stretches from the streets to academia.
You can see the trailer and more info here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vigilante-Vigilante/111244808068
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Director MAX GOOD is a Bay Area filmmaker who has also lived in LA, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Recently, Max worked as assistant producer and distribution manager on the Academy Award®-nominated documentary feature, "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" (2009). Previously, he co-produced "B.I.K.E." (2006), a documentary feature on the underground culture of mutant bicycle gangs.
Producer NATHAN WOLLMAN is a proud alumni of the San Francisco State University's Design and Industry dept. He has worked on numerous projects in and around the Bay Area from short films to musical compositions but he is now focused primarily on documentary film production.
Editor JULIEN de BENEDICTIS found the joys of filmmaking at an early age, editing skateboard and music videos. After graduating with his B.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University in May 2010, he was thrown into editing "Vigilante VIgilante." While this is his feature-editing debut, his recent shorts, "Hair Cuts" (2010) and "The Waiting" (2010), have played in local film festivals (San Francisco State Film Finals and The Three Minute Picture Show, respectively).
WE'VE GOT FANS!
Just today (March, 30th 2011), The San Francisco Film Society's online publication SF360 put us on the front page! http://www.sf360.org/?pageid=13480 Back in March of 2009, the VIGILANTE VIGILANTE filmmakers got a spread in the East Bay Express which focused on our dealings with buffer, Jim Sharp: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/the-great-graffiti-war/Content.... In February 2011 we showed our first 83 min. rough cut to an enthusiastic audience in San Francisco, who gave us great feedback. We are members of the San Francisco Film Society and through SFFS, have fiscal sponsorship for our film. And of course we proudly boast a facebook following of over 900 people! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vigilante-Vigilante/111244808068
WHY WE ARE FUNDRAISING
It's time to send this baby out into the world! However, we have quite a few things left to do before we can say we're done, so we decided to use Kickstarter as a venue to raise at least a portion of the funds needed to complete our film. $8000 is our goal and we'll be forever grateful if we reach it, but finishing the film will easily cost 2 or 3 times that.
VIGILANTE VIGILANTE is shot and edited, but we are still pulling together our stellar soundtrack. We are currently scouting for rock and hip hop music from local bands in the Bay Area, LA and New Orleans, and when we get the songs we want, we will need to pay for music rights. Money will also be put into color correction, animation, the sound mix, the final print and other technical things that cost money and are so important to finishing the film. Once the doc is done, we will use some of our funds to apply to film festivals around the world. Our goal is to premier this spring!
Making this film has been a labor of love and it is almost ready to be shared. We spent two years capturing footage and interviews of some of the most illusive characters on the streets. In following these anti-graffiti vigilantes, our film opens up a larger discussion about freedom of expression and the use of public space. In donating to our film, you will allow VIGILANTE VIGILANTE to play on the big screen and reach a wide audience, thus making YOU a key part of our project and a facilitator in the broader dialogue about graffiti and street art!
THANK YOU, from all of us on the VIGILANTE VIGILANTE TEAM!!
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on April 8, 2011.
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BLOG: You get access to exciting updates about our film via our Kickstarter PRODUCTION BLOG, in the form of photos, videos and funny stories! Thanks so much for helping out!
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THANK YOU: We will put your name and a big THANK YOU on our website + you get updates from the blog and some deluxe Vigilante Vigilante stickers in the mail.
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DVD OF THE FILM AND GOODIES: We will send you a DVD of the finished film (upon its release) and a goodie bag of VIGILANTE VIGILANTE paraphernalia, including stickers and a vigilante logo stencil, accompanied by a hand written thank you note + you also get a thank you on the website and updates from our blog.
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TEE SHIRT/TANK: We will send you a white TEE or ribbed tank spray-painted with the VIGILANTE VIGILANTE logo + you get the DVD, goodie bag, handwritten note, web-thanks and blog!
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GRAFFITI IMPLEMENTS OR ABATEMENT PACK: We will send you your choice of a GRAFFITI IMPLEMENTS pack (1 can of quality spray paint, paint marker, caps, 20 stickers and a VV stencil) or a GRAFFITI ABATEMENT pack (brown paper bags, plastic scraper, and 1 can of water-based spray paint) + you also get the tee shirt or tank, DVD, goodie bag, handwritten note, web-thanks and blog!
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VANS AND A THANK YOU IN THE FILM: You will get a pair of VANS spray-painted with the VIGILANTE VIGILANTE logo stencil and a thank you in the end credits of the film + you get the graffiti implement or abatement pack, tee-shirt, goodie bag, handwritten note, web thanks, DVD and blog!
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ORIGINAL ART AND PERSONAL STENCIL: We will send you a FRAMED ART piece by one of the artists or buffers featured in the film! This one will be a fun surprise. You will have no idea what you will get, but who knows, it could be worth a fortune in ten years! And at the very least it will look rad! At this level of donation we will also take your tag or an image you send us and turn it into a stencil + of course you also get the shoes, end credit thanks, graffiti implement or abatement pack, shirt, goodie bag, note, web thanks, DVD and blog!
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ASSOCIATE PRODUCER CREDIT: Gets you prominent credit in the film as an associate producer (it will also appear on IMDB), plus 6 tickets to a screening of your choice and an open invitation to any after parties for the film + you also get the art, stencil, shoes, graffiti implement or abatement pack, shirt, goodie bag, note, web thanks, DVD and blog!
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CREDIT: Gets you prominent end credit as an executive producer (it will also appear on IMDB), plus a private screening for you and your friends and a one-on-one dinner with the filmmakers. We will work out the logistics if you are a donor in another city and make it work no matter what! + you also get the art, stencil, shoes, graffiti implement or abatement pack, shirt, goodie bag, note, web thanks, DVD and blog!
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Max is a documentary filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has also lived in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles.
Recently, Max worked as assistant producer and distribution manager on the Academy Award®-nominated documentary feature, "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" (2009). Previously, he co-produced "B.I.K.E." (2006), a documentary feature on the underground culture of mutant bicycle gangs that screened at NYC’s MoMA, the Slamdance, Silverdocs and Ann Arbor Film Festivals, and aired on Canal Plus (France) and HBO Poland. He has also directed several short films, including "Gangster Administration" (2005) and "Smooth" (2009), as well as "Ungonquinleños" (2006), in collaboration with producer Nathan Wollman.
Max's debut feature documentary about anti-graffiti vigilantes, "Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression" will be completed in 2011. Having been involved with graffiti and street art culture for over 15 years on both coasts, he was drawn into exploring the phenomenon through its most dedicated enemies. He has also spent a large amount of his time involved in political activism over the last 5 years and sees his films as an avenue to promote awareness and tolerance, as well as to entertain. Max holds a B.A. in Communications and the Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.
