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Update #10: Help us finish strong!
Dear everyone,
As you can see, we have just 13 hours to go in our Kickstarter campaign. We have reached our goal, thanks to everyone’s amazing support – whether through generous donations, spreading the word, or some combination of the two. We are so thrilled and so grateful.
Though we have reached our goal, we would love to keep the momentum going in this last 13 hours of the campaign.
If we are able to surpass our goal by $2500, we will be able to follow up with the numerous people who have contacted us as a result of this Kickstarter campaign, and who are willing to share their stories about experiences with Marie and her film festivals.
If we are able to surpass our goal by $5,000, we will be able to do more of the extensive international research that we will need to truly understand Marie’s history and the root of her more recent ventures.
And finally, as we mentioned in our recent Kickstarter blog post, if we can raise over $1.5 million (a.k.a. the Elevation I-Phone Dock), we are pledging to create a Mystery of Marie I-phone cable.
If we can surpass $2 million (aka Double Fine Adventure), it would be our pleasure to create the Mystery of Marie video game. (In addition to the documentary, of course!)
But seriously, if you are reading this and haven’t donated, please consider doing so in these final hours. And if you have donated, write that final tweet or post one last time on facebook. The sky’s the limit, and the more funds we can raise, the closer we will get to solving this mystery.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts,
Martha & Dan
Update #9: WE DID IT!
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Posted on February 22
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Update #8: Just 57 hours left!
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Update #7: Marie's arrest for animal cruelty
In Adam Saunders' interview, he explains that Marie was being paid by rescue groups in Manhattan to foster dogs, so the more dogs she could take, the more money she made. According to most accounts, this is how she ended up with 47 dogs packed into one small room.
When we interviewed Marie, however, she spoke emotionally of her love for dogs, and how she was only trying to help the dogs she rescued. And yet it was ultimately her dog hoarding and neglect that led to her arrest on fraud charges and her deportation. The story of the dogs is one of many that we plan to investigate further in the next year.
Thank you so much for watching, for your generosity, and for making this film possible!
Dan & Martha
Update #6: James Hill video clip attached!
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Posted on February 13
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Martha Shane is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker. From 2006 to 2008, she co-directed, produced, and co-edited the feature documentary Bi the Way, which had its premiere at the SXSW film festival in 2008 and debuted on MTV’s LOGO channel. More recently, Martha has been directing a documentary called After Tiller, as well as Make the People Happy, a documentary that follows New York novelty ragtime band the Xylopholks on a whirlwind tour of India. Both of those projects are now in post-production.
A life-long New Yorker, Dan Nuxoll grew up in Queens now lives and works in Brooklyn. He has been working with Rooftop Films since 1997 and has been Program Director there for more than 10 years. He has served on juries for Slamdance, SXSW, and the Independent Film Festival of Boston and developed partnerships with Hot Docs, SXSW, Camden International Film Festival, IFC, MoMA, Full Frame, MusisDoc Malmo, and many other organziations. On the rare occasions that Dan has time outside of his work for Rooftop, he works as a producer, composer, sound designer and director for films including the wildly entertaining feature documentary Kiss My Snake.
