OUT Magazine just did a huge feature on gay filmmakers using Kickstarter to fund their films, and how it's changing the equation in Hollywood -- using fight to fund Seed Money, and the backers who came to our rescue as one of the prime examples.

Check it out! (Or better yet, pick up a copy.)

http://www.out.com/entertainment/movies/2012/02/23/kickstarter-movies-filmmaking-funding-gay

Thanks again for all your support. We're moving forward with production this month, and couldn't have done it without you.

Mike

I looked at the piles of transcripts splayed across the coffee table this morning, I thought of all our backers. We've got a long road ahead of us. But thanks to you, phase one, paying for the transcripts of interviews we've already shot, is complete. Over the past month, we've been working to put together a paper edit -- essentially an oral history in script form -- from footage. We estimate that we've got about 75% of what we need. Once we have a paper edit, we'll figure out who else we need to shoot in order to tell the story. If you've got any requests -- or Calvin Klein's phone number -- let us know!

We're in awe.

Chuck's story began as labor of love, it became an obsession, and with your help, it's become a movement. We can't thank you enough.  Through your generosity, through your enthusiasm, through your tireless campaigning on our behalf we made our goal and Seed Money has gotten funded. 

Now the real work begins. To the story of Chuck, of the industry he built, and the ways in which not only porn, but the politics of sexuality changed over those three decades. We can't wait to bring you with us. We'll be in good touch going forward. For right now, we're going to have a drink. It's been a stressful 45 days, and we couldn't have done it with out you.

Thank you,

Mike, Ben, Jack

In case I haven't mentioned it before, we make the goal or we get none of what we raise, so forgive me for being a crazy person.

Like Crazy Eddie, we're now offering deals! To close the cap, we're now offering additional SEED MONEY t-shirts AT COST. Which is 26.00! So add 26 bucks to any pledge between now and Monday and we'll throw in a t-shirt! (the odd number will also help me track it!)

Again, I'm asking people again to help get out the word across all you networks and to let people know about the importance of this history and the urgency of the deadline.  We've raised 21K so far, and we've only got a little ways to go -- we can do this!

YOU GUYS! We've had an incredible past few days. Last night, I'm happy to say, we hit 75% of our funding goal.

Because of you, the 75%, Chuck's story has become more than just a film, he's become a rallying cry. One backer wrote, "as the GLBT community becomes more mainstream, it's important to have every bit of our history documented." We couldn't agree more. In the past few days, we've had write-ups in Out, Modern Tonic, Kenneth in the 212 and Towleroad. We're getting the word out and telling this history.

That said, we have FOUR DAYS to raise the remaining funds or we get nothing. If you've been meaning to tell someone or post on Facebook but haven't gotten around to it -- now's the time. We've got $6500 dollars to go. It's a prodigious amount, but together we can do it.

Thanks to all of you, we're doing it! Not let's finish the job and get Chuck's story told!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/15215410/seed-money-the-chuck-holmes-story