Kickstarter

http://brattlefilm.org/2013/04/08/ricky-on-leacock/

and 

http://opendoclab.mit.edu/event-ricky-on-leacock

Dear RICKY on LEACOCK Kickstarter supporters, fans and friends,

Hard to believe that it’s been exactly one year since, thanks to you, our Kickstarter campaign was a resounding success! Most importantly, we want to thank you all for your patience. I know you’ve heard news of the film’s journey in this last year and we’re very pleased to announce that we are soon able to send out the remaining rewards!

After fees and taxes, with the money raised on Kickstarter we were able to pay in-part for the final 4K film transfers on the fabulous Kinetta Archive Scanner and beautiful color-grading by Jean-Marc Dufour at AS’Image in Paris as well as the sound design by Michael McMenomy and the mix by Matt Gundy at Carmen Borgia’s great sound department at DuArt in New York.

In August, when the film was selected by the IDA for DocuWeeks Frédéric Gaffigne and Alexandre Moniot at AS’Image stepped in again and, working day and night on a very short deadline, produced the DPC required by the Academy. Although our film wasn’t short-listed for the Oscars, the screenings in New York and Los Angeles pleased many spectators and garnered great reviews in Variety and the Los Angeles Times and the wonderful Basil Tsiokos. 

Festival screenings at IT’S ALL TRUE in Brazil, BIOGRAFILM in Bologna, Italy and DOCFEST in Kassel, Germany were all fantastically rewarding as well as the USA screenings in MILL VALLEY, SYRACUSE and STARZ-DENVER.

Having started the shooting there in 1972, we’re all looking forward to the ‘homecoming’ for RICKY on LEACOCK in Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of The DocYard at the Brattle Theater on Monday, 8 April 2013. We’ve suggested that they also screen the short, LE TROU DAN LA MER that was commissioned by ARTE in 1993 to be part of a 4-hour thematic evening that Christoph Jörg and I put together to celebrate the opening of the Chunnel between the UK and France. This film, never before screened in the USA, is part of the DER collection of Leacock-Lalonde’s work during The Paris Years (1989-2009).

Continuing his legacy, this coming June the 2013 edition of BIOGRAFILM Festival in Bologna will give a special Richard Leacock Award. It’s a truly wonderful festival and I encourage all of you working in Direct Cinema to check it out.

So, slowly but surely it’s getting out there. We still are not in distribution because we still need to raise financing to cover licensing of the many clips, but we’re working on it. In the meantime, you’ll soon be the proud owners of the your very own Kickstarter ‘personal copy’.

Thanks to the support of AS’Image, Sebastián Eyherabide and Brian Newman we are finally able to announce that those of you who requested a digital download of RICKY on LEACOCK will be able to do so starting mid-January 2013. The DVDs and Posters will be ready for shipping after 25 January. And, we hope to have the digital downloads/DVDs of LA CAMERA PASSE-PARTOUT ready by mid- February. Please be on the lookout for Kickstarter messages coming soon.

Again, I want to thank you all for your incredible support. Without you it would not have been possible.

Wishing you all a healthful and happy New Year!

Jane

Dear, dear friends and supporters of RICKY on LEACOCK.

It has been a long time coming but, thanks largely to your generous support (and patience), we finally have 'finished' the film...!

I use the word, 'finished' advisedly because, we're still in a precarious financial position while finalizing the licensing, etc. for the distribution.

But, thus far, the festival experience has been wonderful...

The World Premiere last March was at IT'S ALL TRUE Festival in Brazil. This is a GREAT documentary festival. A perfect place to meet and discover the work of both established and new directors from around the world. Sebastián came, too, and we both count it among our best festival experiences. The film screened in both Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to enthusiastic audiences and very good press!

Our European Premiere was in June at BIOGRAFILM in Bologna, Italy. This exquisite festival really showed its stuff! Diverse and interesting films exploring entertaining ideas. And, a chance to meet directors working through the filmmaking challenges of making films about people.

The very best news from Italy is that Ricky's legacy lives on at BIOGRAFILM with the festival's creation of the Richard Leacock Memorial Award, which will be presented each year beginning in 2013.

And, now, we have several new festival invitations to consider.

Next stop: DocuWeeks
We are thrilled that RICKY on LEACOCK was selected for August 10th-23rd screenings in NYC and LA as part of International Documentary Association - DocuWeeks

We are able to participate in this screening opportunity thanks to the extraordinary support from friends of the film -- for which we are grateful.

Here's the schedule:

New York
FRI 10 aug 12:00 PM 5:25 PM
SAT 11 aug 3:35 PM 9:55 PM
SUN 12 aug 1:30 PM 5:30 PM
MON 13 aug 12:00 PM 5:25 PM
TUE 14 aug 3:35 PM 9:55 PM
WED 15 aug 1:30 PM 7:30 PM
THU 16 aug 12:00 PM 17:25 PM
Los Angeles
FRI 17 aug 3:35 PM 9:50 PM
SAT 18 aug 12:00 PM 5:20 PM
SUN 19 aug 5:05 PM 7:45 PM
MON 20 aug 3:35 PM 9:50 PM
TUE 21 aug 12:00 PM 5:20 PM
WED 22 aug 2:05 PM 7:45 PM
THU 23 aug 12:00 PM 5:20 PM
Looking forward to seeing you there!

Thank you all for helping to make this happen!

Truly and sincerely yours,

jane and Diane

I want to send my heartfelt and sincere thanks to everyone, to our supporters, our wonderful backers and, especially, to the team who set this all up and kept it going :

Brian Newman and Diane Markrow and Sebastián Eyherabide and Robert Riccobono and Sata Cissokho and the many, many of you who, behind the scenes, each in your own way, passed the word around the world.  

Stay tuned.  I promise to write again soon with details of how the funds from this campaign will be used to move us towards finishing the film.

Enjoy this morning and, today, the first day of an adventurous new year!

jane

I can't believe it!  Many said this couldn't be done.

I'm so moved that I can hardly type (or spell).

I send you all my deepest appreciation, respect and love.  

Not only from me but also from Ricky who asked me once to 'set the record straight' and I promised him I'd do so.

You all have made this possible.  

From the bottom of my heart, I cannot thank you enough for all that you've given.

More soon.  When I recover!!

Sincerely yours,

jane