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Update #3: 2011 Year End Update
Dear Kickstarter supporters:
Hope you are all enjoying a wonderful holidays. I just wanted to update all of you on the progress of BREATHIN’: THE EDDY ZHENG STORY. We are currently in the midst of production, with about 60 hours of footage filmed to date. Check out our website www.eddyzhengstory.com to view some of the production photos.
Some of my personal highlights were filming Eddy’s efforts to open a community center in San Francisco’s Bayview District, the birthday celebrations of both of Eddy’s parents, presentations at high schools and colleges, reunions with formerly incarcerated friends, and a national reentry conference in Los Angeles. Huge thanks to our dedicated team, especially Christine Kwon (Producer), R.J. Lozada (Director of Photography), Deann Borshay Liem (Executive Producer), Geraldine Ah-Sue (Associate Producer), Momo Chang (Writer), and Production Assistants Sean Totanes, Karolyn Wong, Manh Hakchareun, Aaron Nakai, and Alun Lee! We look forward to finishing up production on the documentary in Spring 2012, with post-production to follow. Stay tuned…
We are extremely grateful to all of our generous supporters who contributed to the Kickstarter campaign and donated towards the project through other avenues! We will begin processing the Kickstarter backer rewards that are ready in early 2011 (e.g. Anthology, poetry, and dinners). Thank you for your patience! Be on the lookout for our revamped website in early 2012 for more updates and don’t forget to like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/pages/Eddy-Zheng-Story/251322981559649
Happy New Year!
- Ben Wang, Director/Producer
Update #2: Thank You!
Dear Friends,
We made it!!! Thank you to everyone for helping make this film a reality!
With two days to go, we surpassed our $15,000 goal by having over 200 people pledge their generous donations. On behalf of our entire team, I would like to give a huge thank you to everyone! Due to your support, we are able to start principal photography, the main filming stage of the project. We have already set up many filming days with Eddy over the upcoming months. Looking forward to sharing the finished product with you!
Please feel free to continue sharing the Kickstarter page with your friends and here is the link for the trailer on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIa_oDcL558&feature=player_embedded
best,
Ben Wang
Director/Producer
BREATHIN': THE EDDY ZHENG STORY
eddyzhengstory@gmail.com
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Ben Wang on December 2
Hi Alaexander,
the film is going very well! we have been able to film some pretty cool scenes with eddy including footage with his parents, the bayview youth advocates and community outreach in the bayview, a national reentry conference in LA, reunions of eddy with other formerly incarcerated friends, and more! we look forward to continue filming with eddy over the next several months. we will be working on revamping our website (www.eddyzhengstory.com) for more updates and material in the near future. thanks again for your support and continued interest in the film! best, --ben
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Update #1: 19 days to go!
Dear friends,
Thank you to everyone who has pledged to our Kickstarter campaign so far! We have reached almost 100 backers with 19 days to go! We posted a new video on the Kickstarter page with the crew, so please check it out and share (the trailer is still embedded below). You can also visit http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Eddy-Zheng-Story/251322981559649?sk=info where we list all of our backers as of 9/12/11. And if you are still able to help spread the word, here are a few things that would really help!
1. Send a personal email to your contacts telling them about the film to spread the word/donate with the Kickstarter link http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1218354395/breathin-the-eddy-zheng-story.
2. Share the Eddy Zheng Story Facebook page with FB friends (see instructions below):
a) go to EddyZhengStory FB movie page www.facebook.com/pages/Eddy-Zheng-Story
and like it if you haven't already! click on "invite friends" on the
right-hand side. Select all of your friends (its annoying but you have
to do this one-by-one).
b) click "share" on the left-hand side of the movie page and post it
on your wall, with a personal message to your friends! let 'em know you
are part of the project!
3. Tweet/blog/talk about the film with others!
Thank you so much for your generosity and support.
Best,
Ben Wang
Director/Producer
eddyzhengstory@gmail.com
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Ben Wang, Director/Producer
Ben Wang is a Japanese-Chinese American documentary filmmaker who grew up in Sacramento and currently resides in Oakland, California. Wang is the Co-Director/Producer of the feature documentary AOKI, a film chronicling the life of Richard Aoki (1938-2009), a third-generation Japanese American who became one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party. Wang is the co-chair of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, and co-edited “Other: an API Prisoners’ Anthology.” He currently works at Asian Health Services in Oakland.
Christine Kwon, Producer
Christine Kwon is the Managing Director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival at the Center for Asian American Media. She graduated from UC San Diego, where she most notably assisted with Jean-Pierre Gorin’s tribute to film critic Manny Farber. With a focus on film programming and an interest in youth development, Christine initiated SFIAAFF’s Student Delegate Program in 2008, as well as the CAAMbassador program in 2010. She is also the Associate Producer of the feature film YES WE’RE OPEN, dir. Rich Wong.
Deann Borshay Liem, Executive Producer
Deann Borshay Liem has been working in the field of media for over twenty years. She is Producer, Director, and Writer for the Emmy Award-nominated First Person Plural and Co-Executive Producer for Spencer Nakasako’s Kelly Loves Tony and AKA Don Bonus. She served as Co-Producer for Special Circumstances, Executive in Charge for Blessed Is the Match, and Executive Producer for On Coal River. She was also the former Executive Director of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association. A Sundance Institute Fellow and a recipient of a Rockefeller Film/Video Fellowship, Deann’s latest film, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee, had its broadcast premiere on PBS in September 2010.
