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Update #3: Thank you!!
"To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America" has been successfully funded, thanks to your generous support!
All we can say is, "Wow!" Thank you so much to everyone who backed our Kickstarter. 118 of you backed us for a total of $20,909. Simply amazing, and we are so incredibly grateful.
We will be in touch soon with all of our backers, both to thank you and also to coordinate your rewards!
- For those of you who pledged at the $250, we will be in touch within the next day (if we haven't already) with information on your tickets to the screening the week of September 23rd.
- For those that pledged at the $1,000 level, you should be receiving an email tonight! Just to reiterate: we have had to change the date of our NYC VIP event with Professor Yunus to September 25 (Sunday), because he is receiving an award in Chicago that he can't miss on the 23rd. The email should include details about your coffee with Professor Yunus shortly.
We are also working hard to pull together a series of special screenings in New York, LA and hopefully beyond. We will be posting updates here:
- http://www.tocatchadollar.com/see-the-film/
If you're in the New York area, you can get tickets here:
- http://www.ifccenter.com/films/to-catch-a-dollar/
You can also monitor updates over Facebook and Twitter!
- http://www.facebook.com/tocatchadollar
- http://twitter.com/#!/tocatchadollar
Thanks again to everyone, for your incredible support!
Update #2: We're down to the final 3 hours!
We have been blown away by your support. So far we've had 107 backers pledging $16,284 to support the film. That's 81% of the way there! Thank you so, so much.
Thank you so so much to all of our backers, including some incredibly generous donors who have singlehandedly been putting this KickStarter within reach of our goal!
Thanks so much for all of your help and support in these last few hours!
Update #1: Thank you from Gayle and Professor Yunus!
We've been so humbled by the response to our Kickstarter! Wow, 21 pledges:
- 1 pledge at the $1 level - Thanks!
- 5 pledges at the $10 level - Let me know if you'd like to remain anonymous, and I'll find a way more private way to thank you.
- 3 pledges at the $25 level - I have the Grameen America savings books ready for you. :-)
- 3 Backers at the $50 level - Your DVDs of To Catch A Dollar will be ready soon! We're targeting December.
- 4 backers at the $100 level - I'm so blown away by your support, and touched that you're interested in my other documentaries.
- 1 backer at $1000 - I can't wait to meet you, and take you out to coffee with Professor Yunus!
We have $2,278 in pledged funds so far, which is 11% of the way there! We are gaining momentum, but I'm worried that we won't be able to fund the project in time.
Either way, Professor Yunus and I would greatly appreciate your support!
Gayle
ps I'd love to learn more about you and how you found this Kickstarter... please let me know in the comments!
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Aaron Cooperband on September 17, 2011
Hi Gayle. There are a bunch of us who heard about you in the Friends of Bob Harris lending team in Kiva. People regularly pass ideas around for interesting projects, and yours popped up. I hope the funding you need comes in! Here's a link to FoBH in Kiva: http://www.kiva.org/team/bobharrisdotcom
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Your name on our website, along with our gratitude and sincere thanks.
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Your name in a Thank You video read by Gayle on our website.
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A Grameen America savings book autographed by Professor Yunus.
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A DVD of the "To Catch a Dollar" documentary autographed by Gayle (once it's released)
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A boxed set of Gayle's 4 documentaries - To Catch a Dollar, 16 Decisions, Anonymously Yours, and The Ganges; River to Heaven, along with a personal thank you note.
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We will be having a screening of the documentary in NY or LA the week of September 23rd, and this will give you two tickets to the screening.
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Lunch with the documentary director, Gayle, in Boston or NYC.
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Two VIP tickets to a NY screening on Sept 23, 2011. Afterwards, you will meet with Gayle and Nobel Laureate Professor Yunus for coffee, a photo together, and a signed poster.
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I work to bring personal accounts of extraordinary and socially compelling stories to the film circuit. TO CATCH A DOLLAR: MUHAMMAD YUNUS BANKS ON AMERICA is my fourth independently produced and directed feature documentary, and a recipient of the prestigious Sundance Documentary Program/Skoll Foundation Stories of Change grant. My previous works include: GANGES: RIVER TO HEAVEN (2003) where with unparalleled intimacy the film explores dying in the holy city of Varanasi, India; ANONYMOUSLY YOURS (2002) shot clandestinely in Burma follows the harrowing world of sex-trafficking through the stories of four young women; and SIXTEEN DECISIONS (2000) an intimate look at one young woman’s challenges in rural Bangladesh to change her family’s life of extreme poverty. I received Masters Degrees in Public Administration from Harvard University and Mass Communication from Boston University, and studied International Human Rights Law at Oxford University. I own Gymnastic Academy of Boston/Cambridge, which funded her films through Aerial Productions.
Hi, I never received my DVD ... should I have by now?