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Update #12: 5 Seconds of Your Time to Vote for Shored Up
Remember when we won Indiewire's Project of the Week about a month ago? Well, now we're competing with four other films to be the Project of the Month.
We have until Friday to get as many votes as we can, and we need your help both to vote and then to share the link on Facebook and elsewhere. If we win, we get a consultation with the Sundance Film Festival and more recognition for Shored Up.
It truly only takes 5 seconds. Well, maybe 10. But no more than 10. Promise.
Ben
Update #11: Coming Up for Air
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Posted on November 10, 2011
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Update #10: The New Math: 2 Days To Go
I was really a sub-par math student in school, as my 9th grade algebra teacher, Mr. Norman would surely agree. But outside the classroom I could always handle the basic, practical stuff like tip charts, how many feet are in a mile, how many inches of snow it would take to cancel school for the day, etc.
So here we are on Kickstarter with 67 hours left to reach our goal which will require raising another $2,793. We have 142 backers, and presumably each has at least one friend who would find Shored Up to be an entertaining, important, and otherwise worthy project to support. If you need reasons or evidence, there's plenty of great examples of why it's such a great project right on our home page.
And so to get back to math if we take that $2,793 and divide by 142, we get $19.66. This means that if everyone can get just one more person to pledge $20...we're over the top. That's the kind of math I enjoy.
Thanks for your help,
Ben
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Greg Gordon on November 8, 2011
Hi Ben - I posted the Kickstarter link and a description of the movie with the video trailer on our South Florida surf site - www.dadecosurf.com
The ACOE wants to destroy one of the best lefts in Miami Beach! And it's going to cost at least $1.2 million for an experimental break water. Arrrgggh....
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Ben Kalina on November 9, 2011
Thanks for the shout out Greg, we can use all the support we can get. Sorry to hear about the Corp's plan. I'm curious to hear more about the experimental break water, and let's talk about scheduling a screening or two down your way once the film's finished.
Ben
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Update #9: Please VOTE this weekend for Shored Up on Indiewire
This will take you LESS THAN A MINUTE. Shored Up is a Project of the Day on Indiewire, and we need everyone to VOTE THIS WEEKEND for us to be Project of the Week. Voting is ONLY today and tomorrow. We're up against 3 other projects and we can win this! Click here and follow the link to the Facebook poll. It will only take a minute, and if we win we are on the path to a consultation with Sundance!
(If we win Project of the Week, we will compete for Project of the Month, and the prize for that is a consultation with the Sundance Institute. More info here.)
Update #8: We're Shooting the Clam Jam on LBI Tomorrow
Hey everybody, we wanted to let you know we're going to be filming tomorrow at the Jetty Clam Jam on Long Beach Island. We'll have cameras on the beach, in the water, and all around for this surf competition with a mix of pros and locals. Keep an eye out for an update next week during the last days of the campaign with some footage from this weekend, and remember...there's only 6 days to go! Time's running out to tell a friend why they should jump in the water and help us finish this film.
Cheers,
Ben and the crew
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on November 11, 2011.
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SPREAD THE GOOD WORD. Help us finish SHORED UP by sharing our Kickstarter campaign with others. Tell 10 friends, tell 100. Post on FB, Google+ or your website, write about us on your blog. We'll put your name up in lights on our WEB WALL OF FAME at www.shoredupmovie.com
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Get your feet wet! The SHORED UP BUMPER STICKER + your name on our web wall.
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DIGITAL DOWNLOAD: Your own digital download of the finished version of SHORED UP + the bumper sticker + web wall
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THE SHORED UP LIMITED EDITION DVD: Be the first to own it! + the bumper sticker + web wall
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A SEA CHANGE: A DVD copy of the award-winning documentary A SEA CHANGE. Ben was the Associate Producer on this film about ocean acidification. Broadcast on Discovery Planet Green. Signed by Ben + web wall & bumper sticker
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VIRTUAL TEST SCREENING. Give us your two cents! These preview screenings are a critical part of the filmmaking process. Watch a rough cut of SHORED UP online and in your own time, then give us feedback in a live, virtual Q&A or through a survey + bumper sticker + digital download + web wall
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MORE BEACH GLASS JEWELRY: By popular demand! Crafted by Glenn Klotz, blogger of @thebeach and featured in SHORED UP. New Jersey beach glass is forged by the same forces of nature that shape beaches and islands. Poetic, right? visit http://shoredupmovie.com/?page_id=105 to pick yours out. Pieces 8-12.
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HOMEMADE SALT WATER TAFFY: A gift box of homemade salt water taffy made, stretched and boxed by Ben and his epicurious 3 year old daughter + bumper sticker + digital download + web wall.
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BEACH GLASS JEWELRY: Crafted by Glenn Klotz, blogger of @thebeach and featured in SHORED UP. New Jersey beach glass is forged by the same forces of nature that shape beaches and islands. Poetic, right?
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The SHORED UP BLU-RAY DVD: See it in High Definition! Plus our bumper sticker + digital download + web wall
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DOUBLE FEATURE: Get the SHORED UP BLU-RAY DVD + A SEA CHANGE DVD (unsigned) + bumper sticker + web wall
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AMAZING PRINTS: Pick from one of four different 10x12 prints of Ann Coen's incredible beach photos from New Jersey. Autographed by Ann, whose husband Jon is the surfer featured in our trailer. Unmounted.
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DVD SURF & TURF. Autographed copies of Alex Dephillipo's acclaimed New Jersey surf doc DARK FALL the SHORED UP limited edition DVD (when finished).
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FRIEND OF THE FILM: You're helping us make Shored Up possible. For your support we'll get you an autographed, limited edition DVD, a print of one of Ann Coen's photos, the mini-movie poster, the sticker and your name on our web wall (you'll receive everything but the DVD right away).
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WETSUIT JACKET: Stay warm and stylish after wrestling with frozen waves in a Hyperflex PLAYA [HZ] 2 mm Neoprene Jacket + bumper sticker + mini poster + SHORED UP digital download + web wall
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WETSUIT: Hit the winter surf with a Hyperflex AMP 3/2 Wetsuit + bumper sticker + mini poster + SHORED UP digital download + web wall
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SURF LESSON: Hit the water! Get a personal surf lesson from John Weber, East Coast Regional Manager of the Surfrider Foundation. John is a force in Shored Up and at Surfrider, and you can meet him near Asbury Park, get some surf tips and the scoop about what Surfrider is up to + bumper sticker + mini poster + SHORED UP digital download + web wall
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CARVE YOUR OWN CUSTOM SURFBOARD with Greenlight Surfboard's Deluxe private mentoring program in Belmar, New Jersey. Greenlight makes their boards and parts out of bamboo and other sustainable materials. Fun, and good for the planet! Plus the Limited Edition DVD (when finished) + mini movie poster + bumper sticker + web wall and we'll even throw in some salt water taffy!
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WORLD PREMIERE: You and a guest go to the World Premiere of SHORED UP (travel & expenses not included) + bumper sticker + limited edition DVD + full-size movie poster
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PRIVATE HOME SCREENING: Paddle for It! A screening of the finished film at your home or for your organization with the director (director's travel expenses not included) + bumper sticker + limited edition DVD + full-size movie poster
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YOUR OWN PERSONAL BEACH REPLENISHMENT: We'll deliver 1 dump-truck of beach-grade sand to your home. If you're not on the beachfront you can have a sandbox to make all the neighborhood kids, or adults, jealous. *We'll bring the sand, but you must provide all the permits.
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THE ULTIMATE PARTNERSHIP: Epic. Help us get there. Be listed as a Producer in the film's credits and on IMDB.
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Ben Kalina - Director/Producer
I'm interested in where science, culture and the environment intersect, and that's what I do in my work. I was the Associate Producer of Two Square Miles and A Sea Change, two amazing films along these lines, and I live with my family in a funky row home in South Philly, yo.
My amazing, hard-working, vastly under-paid (i.e., barely not-really-paid) principal crew:
Jen Schneider - Director of Cinematography
Ian Markiewicz - Sound/Lighting/Camera
Alex Tyson - Editor
Caroline Savage - Outreach Coordinator
