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Update #30: TRash Dance wins Audience Award at Full Frame!
Dear Kickstarter friends of Trash Dance,
If you also supported the finishing phase on Trash Dance, please forgive me for sending this news to you again. I am pleased and honored that Trash Dance was selected to receive the Audience Award for the Best Documentary Feature at Full Frame. Full Frame is sponsored by Duke University's much-heralded Center for Documentary Study. It is both a high-profile documentary festival and a very low-key place with a lot of opportunity to talk with some of the best documentary makers in the U.S. and beyond.
Trash Dance, like all of the films screened on Saturday, had a full house. The audience loved the film, cheering for characters during the film and clapping along to the music in the credits performed by Orange Jefferson and Graham Reynolds (and Hector Moreno and Leah Zeger) while Anthony Phillips dances. It was great.
The film is playing in Sarasota on Tuesday and Nashville on Saturday and Sunday. More news as it comes.
Best wishes,
Andrew Garrison
Update #29: TRASH DANCE wins Award at SXSW!
Dear Kickstarter Supporters,
It was an amazing four screenings at SXSW! We may have set a record for largest number of people to see a film at SXSW. We had practically full houses at each screening and a standing ovation each time. And at each screening at least three of the employees showed up to speak after the film, some coming in after work and some taking a break while cleaning up at SXSW!
"Trash Dance" won the Special Jury Award at SXSW, an award specifically created to honor the film. I have pulled some quotes from some reviews and I am printing them below, along with upcoming festival screenings.
Best regards,
Andrew
*** WINNER — SXSW 2012 Special Jury Award ***
"A Must-See—A joyful, exuberant tale" - LA PRENSAUnbelievable, incredibly beautiful and moving" - BLACKBOOK MAGAZINE
"With national discussions swirling around the one-percent versus the 99-percent, Garrison’s thoughtful, eloquent documentary illuminates the reality that all work matters and has dignity, no matter the invisibility of the labor." - AUSTIN-AMERICAN STATESMAN
"Every once in a while a film comes along that opens your mind to the world around you, reminding you just how connected we all are." - AIN'T IT COOL NEWS
Upcoming screenings:
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Saturday, March 31 at 7 p.m..
Atlanta International Film Festival - Saturday, March 31, at 12:45 at the Landmark 8 Theater in Atlanta, and I'll be there for the Q&A.
Full Frame - Sometime around Saturday April 14
Sarasota Film Festival - Screening April 17, 5:15 p.m. and April 18, 1:30 p.m.
Nashville Film Festival -Sometime April 19-26
Update #28: Love to Kickstarter
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Update #27: First ten minutes of the finished film
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Update #26: TRASH DANCE Launch campaign begun!
TRASH DANCE is good....really, really, good. Thanks for believing in it and thanks for helping to make it happen.
Now I have just started a short campaign to raise the last $8500 for completion and launch.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/189615064/trash-dance-finishing
The new site has a few clips from the film. I will post some more later. The World Premiere at SXSW is 3/10 at 1:30. This campaign ends on March 9. You pioneers who liked what you saw over a year ago, who believed in a spark --the promise to bring it to SXSW (and beyond) is about to be fulfilled. Please take a look at the new site and spread the word.
Thanks very much,
Andy
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WAIT! A new category! You like the trailer so you will like the DVD of the roughcut edit of the performance. Instead of waiting for the $75 dollar level, everyone giving more than $20 will also get a DVD of the roughcut! Yes, this is retroactive.
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A DVD of the rough-cut of the one-hour dance performance signed by Allison Orr and the director, the bumper sticker and signed thank you note.
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The director will have you and a friend over for home-made dinner in Austin (you have to get to Austin), plus a signed rough-cut DVD or portrait, and a reserved seat for you and a friend.
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Garrison has made documentaries about Appalachian children's photography, a small traveling circus, neighborhoods in Dayton, OH, and the impact of art on the people and economy of an inner-city community. His fiction film, THE WILGUS STORIES, and his latest documentary, THIRD WARD TX premiered at SXSW and were broadcast on PBS. He lives in Austin and teaches at U.T. where he created the doc class, East Austin Stories.
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