Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on June 14, 2012.
Dear Backers,
We have some good news: Comart Films, a distribution company with offices in South Africa and Amsterdam, has acquired limited distribution rights for Camp Kickitoo. They have licensed 6 screenings of the film over the next 2 years on pay TV for the entire continent of Africa and adjacent islands. It's not a lot of money but it's a start and, as my father used to say, "it beats a stick in the eye."
With your help, we are kickinit!
Ric & Sully
Sully and I returned from 5 days in Santa Monica this past Wednesday. With your help,we were there at the American Film Market to try to get distribution deals for Camp Kickitoo. What a scene - wall to wall film industry people, all either buying or selling (or both). We managed to get a bunch of meetings and gave out over 30 screener DVDs to distribution outfits who requested them. Hopefully, some deals will come from all that activity. We are cautiously optimistic. Meanwhile, progress continues on the 5.1 mix, which your backing is also helping fund . Korey is working on it as I type and hopes to have the final version in my hands really soon. Yee haw!
There has been a special request from one of you (you know who you are), who has helped this project immensely, for a reel of outtakes from the updates. So here it is - busted takes and scenes that didn't make it into the final edits of two of the update videos.
Enjoy!
Ric
So sorry, but in my haste to post our backers' names to the Camp Kickitoo website, I had accidentally left out a bunch of names. It has now been corrected and can be viewed here. From there, you can navigate to the rest of the site or, just click this link.
Profuse apologies.
Kickinmyself,
Ric
Our generous Kickstarter backers' names have now been added to the official Camp Kickitoo website here. If you haven't looked at our website yet, please do. Here's a link to the homepage.
Thanks, once again, for your support.
Still kickinit!
Ric
Funding period
May 15, 2012 -
Jun 14, 2012
(30 days)
5 backers
A big thank you on our website, as a proud contributor to the film's success.
27 backers
The website thank you, AND a pre-release DVD of the movie. (For overseas shipping, please add an extra $3.)
14 backers
The thanks, a Special Edition pre-release DVD (which will include a "Making Of" video and an Out-takes reel), plus a packet of two dozen, full color, Camp Kickitoo postcards. (For overseas shipping, please add an extra $5.)
15 backers
The site thank you, the Special Edition DVD, the postcards, PLUS a cool, blue, Camp Kickitoo Crew tee shirt, just like those worn in the movie by the camp staff. (For overseas shipping, please add an extra $5).
5 backers
All the above plus a 20"x30" glossy, full color, Camp Kickitoo movie poster, signed by some of the film's actors.
0 backers
All that other good stuff plus a fabulous, high quality, embroidered, blue denim, Camp Kickitoo Crew baseball cap. AND, at the $500 level, you'll also get an invitation to a cast, crew and backers' screening in a theater in Austin, Texas, where you'll get to wear that cap. Don't worry, hats are allowed (even encouraged) inside here in Texas).
0 backers
When we were beginning the production process, our Associate Producer, Annie Borden (who is a terrific painter and 3D artist), created a few beautiful 3D storyboards. It quickly became apparent that it was way too time consuming and way more detail than we really needed so we switched to more traditional type hand-drawn storyboards. But tell you what we're gonna do: Anyone backing us at the $800 level will get, in addition to the above rewards, signed prints of two those storyboard frames, each matted with a print of a frame from the finished film.
0 backers
At the twelve hundred dollar level, you will get the other rewards AND your name will appear in the film's end credits. Plus, If you live in the Austin area (like within 20 miles of the theater), we'll come and pick you up in the Camp Kickitoo bus and bring you, along with some of the cast members, to the Austin theatrical screening. Sorry, but If you live elsewhere, you will have to provide your own transportation to Austin for the film.
1 backer
Now get this! Kick in fifteen hundred bucks and get the other rewards, plus dinner and a movie - an invitation to a great dinner for two, along with a private screening of the film at the Pedernales River home of Ric & Annie (producer/co-director and associate producer). Come early if you like and have a swim in that gorgeous river (which is prominently featured in the film). Sorry, but transportation to and from our house is not included. You'll have to get here on your own but it will surely be worth the trip.
0 backers Limited (1 of 1 left)
With a $2,000 pledge, you will get the above stuff, plus a one of a kind film collectible - one that is very dear to us - the hand stitched parasol with a bear head handle, that Sunny used in the beach scene.
1 backer All gone!
At this pledge level, you will get Rewards 1-9, plus what might be the coolest clapper-slate in movie history. With a clapper in the shape of a bus, painted by Carlos, one of our (semi-anonymous) graffiti artists, this slate was used to mark every take over the course of the shoot.
0 backers Limited (1 of 1 left)
OK, here is the ultimate movie memorabilia offer. To one person who would like to back us at the $10,000 level, we will turn over the keys and title to our fabulous Camp Kickitoo bus. This is more than just transportation. It is art, an art bus with graffiti painted by some of the Austin area's best graffiti artists. And have no fear, you will also be entitled to rewards 1-9 listed above.
