My dear Backers, it's official - we are going to Sydney!!!

http://www.sff.org.au/public/films/program/short-films/pass-the-salt,-please

The 2011 Sydney Film Festival program was launched today.  The festival will be screening over 160 films (features, short films and documentaries) from more than 40 countries, including 10 World premieres and 86 Australian premieres, between 8 and 19 June.

Details of all the films screening in the 58th festival are available on their website www.sff.org.au. 

Thank you again for your support! 

Tatjana

Thanks to our 71 backers, at 8:33 am PST, ‘Pass the Salt, Please’ was successfully funded! Once again I am just endlessly grateful for all of your support these last 26 days.

Our writer Jeff has been tweeting like crazy for the past week. Well, I guess that’s what writers do. Here is his comment regarding our film on Tweeter:

Tweeting's for the birds. ;)

 I only say that 'cause I must have sent out between 600-1,000 tweets to everybody and anybody while promoting the fundraising efforts on Kickstarter for our film, Pass the Salt, Please.

We've been lucky to have a few people and organizations tweet or retweet this event, including: film critic Roger Ebert, Melissa Jo Peltier - co-executive producer of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", Vancouver Film Fest, Film Snobbery (MA), National Film Board of Canada ("The Cat Came Back" - look it up), Lamb Films (Ireland), AdzFilmmaker (Brighton, UK), LiveforFilms (Liverpool, UK), The Northlander (Sweden), SuperMassive Productions (Milwaukee), Milwaukee film critic Duane Dudek, Darklight 2011 (Irish film festival), Sante Fe Indie Film Fest, an idie dir/prod in Sweden, StorylandRTE in Ireland, AsSeenInWI, the Bayview Neighborhood (WI), John Cassavetes Daily, a Germany-based based film webzine, an ad man in Chicago, a Kickstarter employee in NYC, a novelist/playwright in London, a chic chic film producer in Los Angeles, an editor @ Wired, UK Film Society (offered us a screening when ready), Milwaukee Film, PR executive in Dublin, Ireland & a digital technology ad executive from Ogilivy & Mather in NYC.

Thanks to all of you. Pretty cool. But my fingers hurt.

Thanks Jeff. Oh, did I mention that Jeff even tweeted Dalai Lama about our film?! Give your fingers a well-deserved rest now.

All of us on the "Pass the Salt, Please" team are so excited to keep you updated on the film as it progresses. I can tell you now that we have started our Festivals submissions. And this is just the beginning. Keep your fingers crossed! We will of course keep you updated.

Also, if you donated to the project, within the next week or so you will receive an email from us requesting information from you so that we can start the rewards process. The ones we are able to fulfill now! Please be patient with us.

So we will continue to keep everyone updated with these posts through Kickstarter, and soon we will be posting our website. 

We can’t thank you enough for the amazing support you have shown. 



Thank you for giving over the last 26 days.

Tatjana

We have 9 hours to go!

None of this would have been possible without every single one of you supporting the project with as much passion as you have. I would like to take this opportunity and thank every single one of you.  It is an absolute privilege to have you all attached to our film. 

Radha, Johnny, Max, Diana, Jeff and I are so deeply touched by your belief in the project. Your generosity is beyond our wildest imagination. 

What makes it so incredible is that people are still contributing to the film! Thank you! 

Roger Ebert, the film critic, just tweeted today about our short film. With the Kickstarter link... How amazing is that!!!! Thanks Roger!