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Update #16: On HLN with Jane Velez-Mitchell Tonight, 2 New Film Fests & More!

Posted on January 13

Dear awesome people of 2012,

Happy New Year! You've helped our 2012 start with a bang. We launched the DVD and community screenings campaign, we've gotten into two new film festivals, and we're on "Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell" tonight on HLN at 7 pm!

We're On HLN Tonight at 7:00!



We're super excited to be featured on “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell” tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET on the Headline News Network, and we hope you’ll tune in!

Marisa will be chatting with Ms. Velez-Mitchell, a veteran vegan of 15 years and the most energetic news show host on the air. We’re so grateful that Jane uses her public platform to raise awareness about healthy living, compassion for animals, and protecting the environment.

We Got Into Two More Great Festivals

We’re thrilled to have been officially selected for the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. Founded in 1993, it is now one of the world’s largest environmental film festivals, with 150 films from 40 countries playing at last year’s festival. We hope DC-area folks will mark their calendars for our screening on Monday, March 19th at 7:30 p.m. More details to come soon!

The Artivist Film Festival is special because the humane treatment of animals is part of its larger mission, as is activism. We hope you'll come out and support us and enjoy an evening of animal films. Thursday, Jan. 26th at 6 pm in the Miller Theatre at Columbia University 2960 Broadway New York City Limited number of free tickets available --Reserve now!

More info here and FB invite here. Feel free to invite friends and spread the word! 

Community Screenings Campaign Launch = More Exciting Premieres!

If our fall tour passed you by, you might still be able to catch a premiere in your town. Through our community screenings campaign, 19 enterprising vegucators have started organizing premieres starting this week all over North America, from Tulsa, OK, to San Diego, CA to Vancouver, BC. Check out our Upcoming Screenings page to stay up-to-date on new screenings as we add them! And check out this page if you'd like to organize one yourself.

Look what we can do together -- it's vegolutionary!

Here's to a happy, healthy and harmonius 2012,

Marisa, Demetrius & Frank

Update #15: Rewards on their way! And we're up on iTunes, Amazon, etc.

Posted on December 22

Dear glorious backers,

Happy Christmasolstikwanzukkah! We've got super exciting news to share right as we hit the holidays. Your Kickstarter rewards have shipped! And now you can also watch the film by downloading or streaming digitally.

Your Rewards Have Shipped!

Check out our packing party Facebook album for more fun photos, including some showing how we became Those People at the post office, clogging up the line with our ridiculous shipments. But we happily put up with the glares because we love you.

Now on iTunes, Amazon Instant & More

We launched digitally! Our partners at FilmBuff helped us get onto some exciting digital platforms, including: iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, Xbox, and Playstation.

If you like the film, please feel free to rate and review it in the above portals to inspire others to give it a watch! And of course your tweets and FB post reviews are oh so appreciated. Thanks again for making it an amazing year for us.

Warm wishes for a happy, healthy holiday season,

Marisa, Demetrius, Frank & the Vegucated crew

Update #14: Tour a Success, Digital Launch on Tuesday, and DVDs Are Coming!

Posted on December 3

Happy December! How is it already December? It's been a whirlwind of a fall, thanks to everyone who helped make our "Let's Get America Vegucated!" Tour such a success. But the big push is still to come, with our digital launch next Tuesday, Dec. 6th, pre-orders and Kickstarter rewards to fulfill by the holidays, our official DVD launch on January 9th, and our Community Screenings campaign launch in January as well. Keep reading for more details.

Fall Film Tour a Smashing Success Vegan cookbook author Robin Asbell introducing the film at our Minneapolis premiere


Twelve cities, nine states, two film festivals, and one very successful U.S. film tour. Thanks to everyone who joined us at a premiere or helped spread the word. Together, we vegucated around 2,000 people this fall. Thanks to local allies who helped promote, turnouts were great, but what really blew us away were all the emails, tweets and Facebook posts from people who declared they were going vegan, vegetarian or more veg from seeing the film.

Check out our tour highlights post and our Facebook albums for tour photos. You'll see lots of yummy food and drink donated by local sponsors and by tour sponsors So Delicious and Obsessive Confection Disorder.

Digital Launch on Tuesday, Dec. 6th

Ever since we started pre-screening the film this summer, we’ve been asked, “When can we watch it online? When is it gonna be on TV?” We have our answer for you:  next week!

We’re delighted to be partnering with FilmBuff, who’s helping us reach our audience through digital portals, on computers and on TV. No more waiting for the DVD to be released and come in the mail. No more waiting for the film to come to your town. Just click and watch.

Starting on 12/6 you’ll be able to find the film on Amazon Instant Watch, Vudu, CinemaNow, Playstation, XBox 360 and Zune Marketplace. Watch out for an email from us on Tuesday with direct links and, hopefully, some good news about iTunes.

DVDs Are Coming & We Need Your Info

We're busting our tuchuses (is that the plural of tuchus? Or is it the more Latin tuchi or tuchae?) to get DVDs and other rewards to you before the holidays. We're even flying producer Demetrius out to L.A. mid-month to fulfill orders right near the DVD replicator company to circumvent a week's worth of transport via truck. I'm afraid we don't have an exact ship date yet, but when we do, we'll let you know. We're estimating shipping around Dec 16th-20th. And we could use some volunteer elves to help with packing. If you're interested, please reply and let us know. We'll have some extra DVDs on hand for helpers to take home.

But we need your shipping info ASAP! Most but not all of you have answered the shipping survey we sent out on Nov. 1st or 2nd. If you haven't answered it, please dig it up in your inbox because we need your shipping address and, if applicable, your t-shirt size and color preference.

We also have community screening licenses available for pre-order in the e-store and are excited to launch this part of our release in January. We've already had around 200 people sign up to host screenings in colleges, libraries, community centers, living rooms, etc. If you've signed up, here's your chance to make it official and buy the license.

Thanks again for the memorable fall. Let's keep the momentum going through the New Year and keep getting America (and the world!) vegucated.

All our best,

Marisa, Demetrius & the Vegucated crew

Update #13: NYC Premiere Sold Out, Bob Barker Joining Our LA premiere, and Other Tour News

Posted on October 22, 2011

Hi everyone,

We officially kicked off our "Let's Get America Vegucated!" Fall 2011 Tour in style last week in NYC. Thanks to everyone who came out to the event, which was a dream come true for our NYC-based cast and crew.

The audience at the beginning of our sold-out U.S. premiere in NYC. Photo courtesy of Jessica Mahady.

You owned that red carpet. Check out these photos by Jessica Mahady and these by Derek Goodwin. See yourself in any? Feel free to snag and tag, please! Thanks again to our volunteers, donors, and sponsors.

Film subjects Ellen, Brian and Tesla strutting their stuff. Photo courtesy of Jessica Mahady.

We got tremendous feedback from non-vegans who attended and were inspired to go vegan, vegetarian or more plant-based. So we're even more pumped to hit the road with the film.

We're delighted to be in Texas, where we're premiering TODAY in Dallas as part of the big Texas Veggie State Fair weekend, including a Kick-Off Party with Mercy for Animals

This coming week we're hitting Cali with premieres in Berkeley on Monday with special guests cookbook author/speaker Colleen Patrick-Goudreau and Kevin Connelly from the Earth Island Institute. Then we'll be in San Francisco on Tuesday with film subject Brian (and a schmancy rooftop party at VegNews headquarters), in Sacramento on Wednesday thanks to activist Linda Middlesworth, and LA on Thursday! 

We're particularly excited to be joined by TV icon Bob Barker for the LA premiere, so come on down to the party at the Landmark West LA Theater on 10/27 and celebrate with film subjects Brian and Tesla and other special guests, including emcee Rory Freedman, co-author of the bestselling Skinny Bitch series. 

We're just a couple of people here at Vegucated HQ producing the ever-growing "Let's Get America Vegucated!" Fall 2011 Tour, and we could use as much help as we can spreading the word about our stops, so please check out our tour page for links to Facebook invites. Please invite your friends in the cities where we'll be and help us gain momentum for this movement!

All best and thanks again,

Marisa & Demetrius

P.s. We're getting lots of questions about "when is my DVD coming?" and are loving your enthusiasm. As the FAQs on our Kickstarter has always said, we'll be sending those out before the holidays. Thanks for your patience!

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Update #12: We won Best Doc in Toronto! And U.S. Premiere Updates

Posted on October 10, 2011

Best Doc at Toronto Indie Film Fest

We were thrilled to wake up this morning to the exciting news that we won the Best Documentary jury award at the Toronto Independent Film Festival! So thanks again for everyone who helped support our world premiere last month.

“Economy” Tix & Giveaway for U.S. Premiere This Thursday

We can’t believe it’s finally time to premiere in our hometown of NYC! We couldn't be here without our awesome Kickstarter backers. So exciting! If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, grab 'em now! Because we don't plan to sell them on Thursday night.

But we’ve been getting feedback that more of you want to come but with the economy being in the can, you could use a break. We heard you! We heard you! So we’re offering another “economy” level of tickets for $15 to see the movie and Q&A with cast and crew. Our $25 ticket holders will have first choice of seats, but $15 ticket folks should know that in the gorgeous SVA Theatre, all seats are good seats.

U.S. Premiere in NYC
Thursday, Oct. 13th
Red carpet reception starts at 6:45; film starts at 8:00
SVA Theatre, 333 W. 23rd St.
Details & tickets here.
RSVP to our Facebook invite and spread the word!

If current $25 level ticket holders want to switch to the $15 level, just let us know, and we’ll give you a rebate. 

Still can’t afford tickets or want to save money for vegan ice cream? Then enter our drawing! On Tuesday, Oct. 11th at 10 pm EST we’ll hold a drawing, and three lucky winners will receive:

1.) two $25-value tickets to the U.S. premiere screening in NYC
2.) prime seating with the film subjects and filmmakers
4.) an 11 x 17 Vegucated poster signed by key cast & crew
5.) a Vegucated tee

To enter, simply:

1.) like the film on Facebook
2.) post this link on Facebook and tag us in it by mentioning “@vegucated” in your post
-or-
post the link on Twitter and tag us using @vegucated
3.) RSVP to our Facebook invite and comment on the invite, letting us know you entered.

We will announce the winners on our Facebook page and NYC premiere Facebook invite. You must attend the premiere to receive your reward tee and poster.

Thanks, as always. We're in the final stretch for our big bang in the U.S., and we can use all the support we can get...then we'll party in style with our NY friends. Can't wait!

Yours truly,
Marisa, Demetrius, Frank & the Vegucated crew
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      Cathy Rosamond on October 10, 2011

      I was really looking forward to seeing this, but can't make it on Thursday (I'm a college instructor). Will there be another showing in NYC? Hope so. Best of luck and proud to be a backer!

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      Marisa Miller Wolfson on October 10, 2011

      Thanks, Cathy! Sorry you can't make it to this one. We'll have community screenings here. It may be next year, but we will. In the meantime, we'll be taking this to theaters around the country on our tour this fall.

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A house party screening kit that includes two extra DVDs, a discussion guide written by humane educator Zoe Weil, a recipe packet by cookbook author Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, and a Skype chat with the director and a film subject after your at-home screening, plus everything above.

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*A new one-off!* A 4-course vegan meal for 4 people in your own NYC home prepared by Daphne Cheng of Vérité Catering. Specializing in eclectic, contemporary cuisine, Daphne never ceases to seduce your tastebuds with her innovative and fresh cuisine. (This reward comes with a signed copy of the DVD and is not included in any other reward levels.)

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*A new one-off!* A vegan fashionista package complete with a pair of gorgeous olsen Haus shoes, a beautiful Evolve Accessories necklace, a copy of Green Is the New Black: How to Change the World with Style by Tamsin Blanchard, and a personal styling session with Chloe Jo Davis from GirlieGirl Army. Chloe will take you to her eco fashion haunts Kaight and MooShoes at a day and time of mutual choosing for a 2-hour styling session where she will advise you on your best (eco) assets and how to flaunt them and will answer any and all of your cruelty-free fashionista queries. Cost of clothes, shoes and accessories not included but special GirlieGirl prices are. (This reward comes with a signed copy of the DVD and is not included in any other reward levels.)

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*New Addition!* We will have the film translated & subtitled into a language of your choice. Reward includes 10 copies of the DVD in that language, a special feature of you (photo and brief bio) on our website and in a Get Vegucated e-newsletter, plus the knowledge that you brought this film's message to whole new areas of the world. Please contact us to pre-approve your language of choice. We have Spanish covered already and are now especially looking for French, Italian, German and Chinese but are open to more. (This reward also comes with a signed copy of the English language DVD and is not included in any other levels.)

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A private tour of the Peter Max art studio led by the artist himself, a signed limited edition of the Peter Max-designed Vegucated poster, and everything above.

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As a full-time food activist, Marisa Miller Wolfson has organized grassroots vegucational workshops and film screenings all across North America. She recently completed her first documentary feature with the help of colleagues at the FilmShop and the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective. She enjoys vegucating the 1,300+ members of her free online coaching program Vegan at Heart and is the honored recipient of Farm Sanctuary’s Farm Animal Friend Award.

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