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Update #13: We got our very first grant!
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Update #12: heading back to Hoonah for the 4th of July celebration
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Update #11: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Update #10: Gifts are on their way!!!
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Posted on October 13, 2010
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Update #9: Send me your addresses if you haven't already!!!
Hey Friends!!!
The cans of sockeye salmon should be arriving sometime next week which means we can start sending out gifts to everyone!!
Some of you have sent me your address (THANK YOU) but the majority of you have not.
Please email hoonahsheroes@gmail.com with your snail mail addresses so you can get your gifts!
Try to shoot me an email by Monday 9/27. That would be awesome!!!
Thanks so much!
Oh and if you know anyone else who would like to donate or someone who just needs a tax write off, please send them to my fiscal sponsor site (Women Make Movies) below and scroll down to Hoonah's Heroes. I need to start raising money for post production, FAST.
Thanks again for making this happen!!
Update #8: We're Back + Thank You !!!! + Behind the Scenes
We're back! Thank you so much for funding Hoonah's Heroes and making it possible to capture these truly incredible stories. The project has turned out to be so much more -- complicated, moving, emotional, powerful -- than we ever could have imagined.
21 days, 18 interviews, 63 hours of footage
We are exhausted and exhilarated!
Next Steps:
Step 1: Edit, Edit, Edit
Step 2: Fundraise, Fundraise, Fundraise
Step 3: Repeat
In the meantime...
Behind the Scenes Antics: http://vimeo.com/14946049
Filmmaker Caveat: These were taken on a little Flip camera; the real interview footage is shot on Sam's beloved Panasonic and is not all weird and wobbly, fear not!
Actually, we've got a bunch of videos here: http://vimeo.com/user4594662/videos
Sort them by "oldest", and you can see how things progressed. Personal favorite, of course, is the homage to Paris is Burning (Video #10), which has nothing to do with the documentary, but makes us happy every time we watch it.
VERY IMPORTANT -- Send us your address! (hoonahsheroes@gmail.com)
A million thank yous for making this project possible. You are the best looking and wittiest group of kickstarters that ever were.
Love,
Samantha, Matt and Christie
Hoonah's Heroes
Update #7: Amazing
This is Matt posting for Sam.
I got back from 10 days in Juneau and Hoonah last Saturday after shooting more than 26 hours of footage. It was simply amazing and I hear from Sam and Christie, who are still there, that they continue to get even more great stuff like a Tlingit ceremony with dancing and songs at ANB Hall, and a 6 hour interview with one of the island's prominent veterans.
Here are some of my pics. Enjoy. Sam will resume posts when she gets a proper internet connection.
Update #6: one week in and getting lots of footage
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Posted on August 19, 2010
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Update #5: i don't know what to say
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Posted on July 21, 2010
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Update #4: 11 days to go...
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Posted on July 7, 2010
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Update #3: hitting home
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Posted on June 14, 2010
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Update #2: a photo from a hoonah pal!
Hey,
My friend Sonya sent me this photo I thought I share with you.
My friends over there are starting to believe the film will be made.
That's pretty cool.
Only sixty bucks away from two grand!!!
Thanks so much for supporting Hoonah's Heros!!!
Update #1: $1000+ in two days. Are you kidding me?
Hey Friends,
I just wanted to send a shout out thanking all of you who contributed so far. I can't tell you how thrilled I am that this may actually become a reality because of all of you! Will be in touch with updates.
Thanks again!!
Love, Samantha
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 18, 2010.
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Samantha Farinella is a New York City-based queer feminist filmmaker and founder of One Angry Woman Productions. She has produced and directed six documentaries and four narrative shorts that have been featured in over 70 national and international film festivals including the London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Outfest: L.A. Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Galway Film Festival, and The Guggenheim Museum.
Her most recent feature documentary LEFT LANE has eight awards to date, including honors in New Zealand, Paris, New York, Detroit and Kansas City among other places.
She also has extensive television production experience, producing award-winning behind the scenes and promo spots for numerous series including Degrassi: The Next Generation and South of Nowhere.
Farinella was brought to Madrid as Director of Photography for a documentary covering the response to the terrorist attacks in both NYC and Madrid. In November 2001 she was commissioned to photograph political graffiti art throughout Chile with a grant from Yale University.
Samantha has insatiable wanderlust, is an avid fan of the New York Yankees and enjoys a well made cocktail.
