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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on July 11, 2011.
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You'll receive a Digital Download of the film when it is completed. 2012 is the plan.
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You'll receive a hard-copy DVD of the film when it’s completed along with our appreciation! 2012 is the plan.
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Show your support in style with your own Nelson Algren limited edition T-shirt! You will receive one T-shirt with your choice of either the Pulp Cover of Algren’s classic Never Comes Morning or one of 3 Art Shay iconic photo-images: Algren with Simone, Algren with his typewriter, or Algren with a punching bag. You will also get a Digital Download of the completed movie.
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Wear it. Read it. Watch it. You will get one of our limited edition T-shirts, a signed copy of Art Shay’s book Nelson Algren’s Chicago and a DVD of the completed film.
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Along with our gratitude you will receive all of the above, along with two tickets to our opening night premiere, and exclusive project updates and glimpses of the project as we edit it, via email.
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You will receive all of the above, along with an Associate Producer credit on the film, and an invitation to the Chicago premiere after party, along with our deepest thanks!
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Along with our gratefulness you will receive one of each of the items listed above plus a never released, exclusive, signed Art Shay Photo print of Nelson Algren.
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Connected as Michael Caplan (377 friends)
Michael Caplan is an independent film director, producer & teacher. His most recent film, A Magical Vision, is a feature length documentary that spotlights Eugene Burger, a magician and guru of the magical arts, which has shown in festivals from Chicago to India and won an Audience Award at the Spirit Enlightened Film Festival. Caplan also directed Stones from the Soil, a documentary on his father that showed on national PBS in 2005. He is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Film & Video Department at Columbia College Chicago.
Michael-- I'm not sure if you'll reach your goal in time, though I hope you do. If you don't,
you should consider re-approaching your backers anyhow, and seeing if they would make
the same contribution regardless of KS/Amazon. I know I would. I thrill to the idea of an Algren Doc...