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This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 4, 2010.
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Exclusive access to view the completed La Familia film at a password-protected location online, along with an invitation to attend the premiere screening on June 12th.
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A signed copy of the La Familia DVD, an invitation to the premiere screening on June 12th, and exclusive access to view the completed film at a password-protected location online.
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On-screen acknowledgment in the end credits of La Familia , a signed copy of the La Familia DVD, an invitation to the premiere screening on June 12th and exclusive access to view the completed film at a password-protected location online.
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On-screen acknowledgment in the end credits of La Familia, a signed copy of the La Familia DVD, an invitation to the premiere screening on June 12th and exclusive access to view the completed film at a private location online. Finally, a signed copy of Theo Rigby's award-winning documentary entitled Close to Home, which has screened nationally and internationally at over 15 Film Festivals over the past year.
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On-screen acknowledgment in the end credits of La Familia, a signed copy of the La Familia DVD, an invitation to the premiere screening on June 12th and exclusive access to view the completed film at a password-protected location online. You will also receive a signed copy of Theo Rigby's award-winning documentary entitled Close to Home, which has screened nationally and internationally at over 15 Film Festivals, as well as DVD's of his other successful and festival traveled films: The World is Young, A Sentence Apart, and My First War.
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Theo Rigby is a freelance Documentary filmmaker and photographer based out of San Francisco. He creates social and political documentary projects with still and moving images. Theo has focused on topics ranging from the War in Iraq, to incarceration, and most recently, immigration in the U.S. His first film, ‘My First War’, about the first 44 days of the war in Iraq, won awards, was accepted in a dozen film festivals, and was recently distributed by Ironweed Films. His short film 'Close to Home' was a National Finalist in the 2009 Student Academy Awards, won a Golden Eagle Award, special Jury mention at the 2010 Ashland Independent film festival and has been accepted into more than ten film festivals.
Theo has completed documentary photography projects on Migrant Workers in South Korea, Childhood Asthma in America, families of U.S. Soldiers who have been killed in Iraq, and Undocumented Immigrants living in the U.S. He has shot stills for Newsweek, The New York Times, National Geographic France, People magazine, and many other National and International publications. His still photographic work has been exhibited at San Francisco City Hall, and at the 2005 Visa Pour L’Image festival in Perpignan, France.
Theo also has a passion for education and has taught undergraduate documentary photography, as well as starting and directing an after-school digital storytelling program for immigrant youth in San Francisco. He is currently pursuing a M.F.A. in Documentary Film at Stanford University and will graduate in June 2010.
