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Update #15: Happy Almost-New Year!
Hello EARTH CAMP ONE backers!
Remember the November 11 funding triumph that YOU made possible? Thank you for making 2011 the most exciting year -- for me as a filmmaker -- EVER. Why? Because it's the only time I ever asked friends, colleagues, strangers, and potential audiences to move a project along -- and YOU DID! Still reeling (pun intended) from the wonder of this.
What have I been doing so far, since November? I have been getting ORGANIZED -- getting my editorial advisors and producing team together, and getting my work space READY. All of this is, of course, an important part of the work.
It was a long summer and Fall -- making a video for Elton John's tour, and then going right into Kickstarter. Once the New Year happens, I'll be in touch with all of you to get you your rewards -- the earliest rewards (downloads, DVDs of already completed works) will arrive in January and February of 2012, and other rewards (such as t-shirts, animation stills, and the film and film poster itself) will come at different times, as they are ready. Thank you for your patience.
Three more things: first of all, I have personally and individually emailed my thanks to ALMOST all of you who backed EARTH CAMP ONE in October and November. At the campaign's end, you were pledging so FAST AND FURIOUS I couldn't keep up! So for the very few of you who didn't receive a one-on-one thanks, please accept, once again, my warmest and most sincere appreciation for getting involved. This is going to be the BEST EDITING YEAR EVER, thanks to you.
On a final note: One Kickstarter campaign I myself pledged to some weeks ago is RICKY ON LEACOCK. To anyone who loves film, or loves documentary, or who likes to get into the heads of how artists work and think, this looks to be a fantastic project. And the director Jane Weiner was also a backer of EARTH CAMP ONE! So if you're looking to make one last Kickstarter pledge in 2011, and have a few minutes, please consider taking a look. The project has FIVE MORE DAYS (till New Year's) to make its goal.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/488998417/ricky-on-leacock-a-documentary-by-jane-weiner
Last but not least:
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Wishing you health and joy and love and beauty and adventure in 2012.
Jennie
Update #14: And...just one more celebratory post!
For backers only,
Posted on November 11, 2011
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Update #13: The Summit
So much for needing to exhort you people to get to the finish line....
THANK YOU!
And some of you are still pledging!!
What a great day.
More soon!
WOW.
Yours,
Jennie
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Reno Dakota on November 11, 2011
Congrats! And thank you for being Jennie.
Much admiration!
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Martha Gallahue on November 11, 2011
Congratulations, Jennie. FYI: Whoopi Goldberg is an Ethical hero. I heard that she participated in the citizens' encampment program with ethical culture when she was young. Someday, I would like to ask her how it influenced her life and let her know how proud we in ethical culture are with how she has helped people to be better folks.
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Update #12: 98% and rising
We are at 98% funded. And 3 backers away from 500!
We really do need that 2%. That's for sure.
ARE WE THERE YET?
WE ARE ALMOST THERE!!!
AND IF WE GOT THERE, WOULD YOU KEEP GOING? I'm not saying Earth Camp One should or could be like the Kickstarter Occupy Wall Street Media campaign which asked for 12 and got 75. Meeting the project goal will be near-miraculous. (WE ARE NOT THERE YET! UNTIL WE ARE AT 100%, THIS PROJECT CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE FUNDED) Just: do not feel that any topping-off would be the Tahiti vacation...this campaign is for the rough cut. Ahead is the fine cut, the tape to digital transfers, the completion of the animation, and the music. Just so you know.
But first...the two percent.
After which I am threatening to make a video in which I sing a song of thanks. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
THANK YOU AND KEEP IT UP!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE AWESOME in both the sense of "that's awesome, dude!" and the sense of, you know, The Ten Commandments parting-of-the-Red- Sea awesome. That kind of awesome. You are that!
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Betsy Abernathy on November 11, 2011
Jennie, I am SO HAPPY for you. I'm tapdancing on my coffee table. The cat is looking at me. :-)
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Joy Pereths on November 11, 2011
I'm a believer! We are the 99%! We don't have to rely on the corporate structure to get you to rough cut or beyond! Nearly there.....
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Pentago on November 11, 2011
I so love this picture! I knew you could do it. I hope you get a lot of sleep this weekend. xxx
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Update #11: GAH!!!!! WE ARE 89% FUNDED....with 25 hours to go!!!
My Dear Backers,
At 3 AM Theremina became Earth Camp One's 400th backer!!!! Now there are 444 of you and we just went up to 89% of the goal. This is SO EXCITING!!!!
CAN WE MAKE IT??? It seems IT WILL MOST LIKELY HAPPEN, doesn't it? I am AWED by the contributions all 444 of you have made, from $1 to $1500!!!
But we can't stop now!
I admit I stayed up all night writing emails. It was like a college all-nighter, except now we have the Internet, and I have a girlfriend AND a Labradoodle.
Watching this campaign grow is incredibly moving. In a time where there's still no US arts funding to speak of, when the film industry is shrinking, you are finding ways of letting filmmakers know (I mean some of you ARE filmmakers) you want to see works that don't fit the mold.
Can I tell you how I feel? (As you know, because you're supporting Earth Camp One, in part about a Northern California hippie summer camp called Earth Camp One, I grew up in the 1970s in California!!) I feel overwhelmed by your generosity. I feel awed by how you've ACTED on behalf of my film. And I feel like -- despite the fact that the very word "community" makes me want to go live in a secluded beach town by myself and talk to no one and watch Kurosawa films all day -- we have become one. A community. A supportive one.
THANK YOU! Please don't let up your increases and and ABSOLUTELY keep letting people know. Tell them we have 25 hours and if we don't make our goal the film loses all your pledges, because that IS the case. The last 11% in the coming 24 hours is not guaranteed: we have to get there. I believe we will.
My respect and gratitude!
Jennie
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Jude Ray on November 10, 2011
I upped my pledge since my kid (Zazie in your Elton John video! :-) chipped in). You are going to the edit room soon!
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Christopher J. Brownfield on November 10, 2011
I just upped my previous pledge from my smart phone. wow. that was easy!!
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Christopher J. Brownfield on November 10, 2011
p.s. I LOVED the video you shot for Sir Elton. you're an amazing portraitist!!! : )
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on November 11, 2011.
Pledge $10 or more Pledge $10 or more
(GET A THANK YOU AND A SHORT) You get the filmmakers’ sincere gratitude and a thank you on our website, once it’s up. And a digital download of THROUGH THE ICE, Jennie Livingston's other meditation on impermanence, shot in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, shown on WNET, and screened at Sundance in 2006.
Pledge $25 or more Pledge $25 or more
(GET THE POSTER AND TWO SHORTS + A THANK YOU) You get a copy of the poster when the film launches plus a thank you on the website. Plus digital downloads of THROUGH THE ICE and HOTHEADS, Livingston's digital short about fighting violence with humor, shot in New York and featuring cartoonist Diane Dimassa and comedian Reno, shown on MTV and at Lincoln Center.
Pledge $50 or more Pledge $50 or more
(GET THE DVD + MORE) Get a DVD of EARTH CAMP ONE when it's completed, plus digital downloads of THROUGH THE ICE and HOTHEADS, plus the EARTH CAMP ONE poster, plus a thank you on the website.
Pledge $75 or more Pledge $75 or more
(DVD + DOWNLOADS + THANK YOU NOTE WITH SMALL DRAWING) Everything in the $50 category plus a hand-written thank you note with a small drawing on it of an image from the film's animation storyboards -- you choose the afterlife!
Pledge $100 or more Pledge $100 or more
(BE PART OF THE FILM CREDITS + MORE) You get a copy of the EARTH CAMP ONE DVD upon its completion, the downloads of THROUGH THE ICE and HOTHEADS, the poster, and a personal thank you phone call from Jennie, plus a thank you on the website. AND you get a “thank you” SCREEN CREDIT. That means, when the film plays at theaters, or on television, your family, friends, exes, and rivals (or anyone else you'd like to impress) will be able to see your name on the credit “crawl” along with the film’s other supporters, creatives, and crew.
Pledge $250 or more Pledge $250 or more
(GET A SIGNED PARIS DVD + A BIGGER SCREEN CREDIT + MORE) You get everything in the category above, plus a signed DVD of PARIS IS BURNING. Plus your name on the credits "crawl" will occur under “special thanks.”
Pledge $500 or more Pledge $500 or more
(GET THE COMPLETE WORKS + SCREEN CREDIT) You get everything above, plus the complete set of DVDs of Jennie’s festival hit shorts, including the sex comedy WHO'S THE TOP? featuring Marin Hinkle, Shelly Mars, Brigitte Bako, Steve Buscemi, and 24 dancers; THROUGH THE ICE, and HOTHEADS.
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(FOR FILMMAKERS AND PRODUCERS:CREATIVE CONSULT) 1 hour consultation + up to 2 hours of material review with an award-winning documentary and fiction filmmaker. Want your proposal read? Your rough cut reviewed? Want to talk about structure, meaning, funding for your nonfiction or fiction project? An opportunity to help both EARTH CAMP ONE and your own current project. Limited to discussing a project at the idea stage, to scripts 120 pages and under, and to rough cuts or sample footage 1.5 hours and under. Includes "special thanks" screen credit.
Pledge $1,000 or more Pledge $1,000 or more
(GET THE COMPLETE WORKS AND A VERY BIG SCREEN CREDIT -- SIZE DOES MATTER!) You get everything in the $500 package, plus a “very special thanks” credit on the big screen during the credits "crawl."
Pledge $1,100 or more Pledge $1,100 or more
(BE A PART OF IT!) Be an extra in a shoot we’re planning where a group of protesters petitions Death to make everyone immortal. (Yes it’s goofy, very goofy. You will have to carry a fake protest sign and chant.) Also includes EARTH CAMP ONE and signed PARIS IS BURNING DVDs and "very special thanks" screen and website credit. Plus a special thank you and acknowledgment on set.
Pledge $1,200 or more Pledge $1,200 or more
(MEET THE FILMMAKER ONE-ON-ONE IN HER HABITAT) Jennie will have lunch or coffee with you in Brooklyn or Manhattan, or take you on a walking tour of her favorite corners of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, with her assistant, Noodles the Labradoodle. Conversation topics can include film and filmmaking, the nature of impermanence, and curious canine habits.; lunch or dog treats not included. Also includes EARTH CAMP ONE and PARIS DVDs, and "very special thanks" web and screen credit.
Pledge $1,500 or more Pledge $1,500 or more
(AN ORIGINAL PARIS IS BURNING RELEASE POSTER, SIGNED + LOTS OF OTHER STUFF + SCREEN CREDIT) You get everything in the 1000 category plus a signed poster of PARIS IS BURNING. That’s right, an original poster from the film’s 1991 release! A collector’s item available only HERE.
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(OWN AN ORIGINAL DRAWING FROM EARTH CAMP ONE'S ANIMATED SEQUENCES) Choose from one of hundreds of cool original drawings - all about different conceptions of the afterlife. Different styles, different afterlives: from hell to paradise to rebirth to cellular regeneration. Sure to be a collector's item. Also includes EARTH CAMP ONE DVD and "very special thanks" web and screen credit, plus a personal thank you call from Jennie.
Pledge $3,000 or more Pledge $3,000 or more
(A PRIVATE SCREENING IN AND AROUND NYC) Jennie will come to your home, or a venue of your choosing, and screen PARIS IS BURNING and her 22 minute long musical sex comedy WHO'S THE TOP? for you and your friends. She will answer questions about the making of those films and about filmmaking in general! This offer is good within 1.5 hours of New York City. Also includes EARTH CAMP ONE DVD and "very special thanks" web and screen credit.
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(A PRIVATE SCREENING IN YOUR TOWN, IF YOUR TOWN IS NOT NEW YORK) The same as the 3000 category but for other parts of the USA. You provide the air or train travel and one night of hotel. Also includes EARTH CAMP ONE DVD and "very special thanks" web and screen credit.
Pledge $6,000 or more Pledge $6,000 or more
(A HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH) Pick from several original Jennie Livingston photographs and get a striking print for your collection or wall. Some are photographs taken in the 80s at drag balls as Jennie was researching PARIS IS BURNING. Some are arresting portraits and street scenes from New York and Los Angeles. A wonderful holiday or birthday gift for yourself or for the photography or art collector in your life. Also includes EARTH CAMP ONE DVD, "very special thanks" credit on the web and on screen, and a personal thank you call from Jennie.
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(A HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE MUSEUM-QUALITY MODERNIST LAMP) A striking and stylish Modernist lamp from the filmmaker’s brother’s collection, designed by Walter Dorwin Teague. Teague's 1939 “114” desk lamp was manufactured by the Polaroid Corporation and is included in the collections of several museums' design departments. Why would someone want to part with something beautiful that belonged to someone they loved? To make a FILM about someone they loved. Be a part of that process and get a mid-century Modern treasure that's been authenticated by Southeby's. Also includes the EARTH CAMP ONE DVD and "very special thanks" web and screen credit.
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(A HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE FIRST EDITION BY JAMES JOYCE) A first edition of Finnegan’s Wake in great condition, in a hand-made box, from the filmmaker’s mother's library. The film is, in part, about how our families influence us. The filmmaker's parents collected images of family life, in 16mm, that are part of EARTH CAMP ONE. And they also collected (and sometimes read!) books that inspire the filmmaker to want to find new ways of telling the stories those images touch on. Enjoy a family heirloom that's also a killer book -- and help a film come to life. Also includes EARTH CAMP ONE DVD and "very special thanks" web and screen credit.
Pledge $10,000 or more Pledge $10,000 or more
(COMPLETE WORKS + ASSOCIATE PRODUCER CREDIT + TICKETS TO FESTIVAL PREMIERE) You get everything in the 500 category (remember the 500 category?) AND your screen credit is ASSOCIATE PRODUCER. Use that notoriety to go forth and conquer Hollywood, or at least to shepherd another worthy independent feature or documentary. And, of course you’ll get 2 tickets to the film’s festival premiere (travel not included.)
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New York Magazine, in its 2008 40th anniversary issue “approval matrix,” called Jennie Livingston’s film Paris is Burning (1991) one of the most significant cultural works to come out of New York City in 40 years (please see link below). The film won a Sundance Grand Jury Prize and, is, according to Variety, one of the most-seen documentaries ever released. Livingston’s other films include the dramatic short Who’s the Top? (2005), which the LA Times called “witty and accomplished.” “Top?” was screened at over 130 film festivals worldwide, including theatrical runs at Boston’s MFA and London’s ICA; “Through the Ice” was commissioned for the WNET show Reel New York; it also screened at Sundance (2006); and, “Hotheads” (1994) was broadcast on MTV, and released on Polygram Video. This summer, Livingston directed a video for Elton John's stage show. And, she’s written an ensemble screenplay, Prenzlauer Berg, that’s being produced by Susan Stover (High Art). Jennie Livingston got her BA from Yale, where she won Yale’s Sudler Prize for her drawings and photographs.
Thanks Jenny for your support, it is very kind of you. Jane, three computer and I trying to give this campaign a last push and start the New Year with a Funding Successful ! Thank you for including us in your update !
I think you're going to make it and am crossing fingers and toes! You're the only film so far I have asked my backers to consider backing...and I probably won't do it again, but in the case of RICKY ON LEACOCK, I found the trailer so compelling and the idea of all that footage about a filmmaker who's so important really exciting.