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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on December 5.
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For one dollar you will see your name in the Special Thanks list in the credits of the completed short documentary.
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Your name in the Special Thanks list in the credits of the documentary AND on the American Other website, with space for you to list a link to your own webpage
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The Thank You's listed above, plus your very own DVD copy of the completed documentary.
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Not only will you get everything listed above, you will receive a unique, personalized postcard from the production team from somewhere on the road. The post cards will be hand written on postcards found and purchased from the various locations of the shoot. First come first serve.
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Everything above plus a signed photo still original from our on the road photo journal.
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Everything Above plus your choice between an American Other Hat or a T-shirt
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You will receive all the things listed above, but more importantly, you will get the the special edition of the DVD, with extended footage and behind the scenes extras. Autographed and dedicated individually, with our sincere gratitude.
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All the things listed above, plus an invitation to the first screening and the reception. Believe it when we tell you, it will be an awesome time.
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All the things listed above, but more importantly for this level of giving you will star in your own American Other interview. You be filmed answering the same questions we will ask in the documentary. We will then go and interview your own personal 'other.' (Within the state of California only - not for use in the documentary.)
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Everything listed above (except the interview) and also a hand made book, hand printed on a printing press, signed and individualized. It will be made up of photos, journals, and records from the production of of the documentary. It will include an audio CD of music, voice memos, and clips from around California.
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Charlotte Jayëlle Wheeler (Director) has a professional background in live theatre, where she has been a performer since the age of two and also focused her skills as a director, producer, writer, and carpenter. Over the years she has worked with many companies, among them Center Theatre Group, TheatreWorks, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Teatro Zinanni. She began producing and directing at the age of 16, co-founding The Student Theatre of California (STOC 1996-2001). She graduated from The Los Angeles County High School for the Arts in 1998. After writing her first play, The Reading, which she then produced and directed at Fremont Centre Theatre in 2000, her interest in using theatre and entertainment as tools to effect social change became the driving force for her work. She attended The Clown Conservatory at the Circus Center of San Francisco in 2004, experimenting with the use of circus and spectaclism. In 2006 she got her BA in the Humanities with a focus in Activism and Social Change at the New College of California, using a blend of theatre, clowning and video documentary for her thesis work.
