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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on May 6, 2011.
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Obrigados! You'll win our heart-felt gratitude as well as online credit for the world to see at SPIA MEDIA PRODUCTIONS, INC website AND AtlanticPortals.com when we build it!
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Foxpointer: Give a shout out as a native "Fox Pointer," past or present, with your name on the Atlantic Portals website and the film's credits.
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Granny's: A tribute in honor of all "Granny's" the traditions and culture of our ancestors’ journey to America and memories of laughter, food and Crioulo music at Granny's house. This reward includes a digital download of the finished film, an audio CD of Candida Rose “KabuMerikana: The Sum of Me,” a voice from the other side of the Atlantic. (PLUS ALL OF THE EARLIER REWARDS)
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Working the Boats: A nod to Local 1329 of the I.L.A. (International Longshormen’s Association) founded in 1933, the first black and predominantly Cape Verdean Union on the eastern seaboard and the economic lifeline for the Cape Verdean community in Fox Point. With this reward we'll send you a special edition ATLANTIC PORTALS DVD sub-titled in Portuguese and French. You’ll also receive access to the digital download AND a copy of SKFPR on DVD (PLUS ALL OF THE EARLIER REWARDS).
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Atlantico: A salute to culture, history, and music, this incentive rewards from both sides of the Atlantic, backers at this level receive a SKFPR signed poster (8 ½” x 17”) and an audio CD of Maria de Barros's album “Morabeza” (PLUS ALL OF THE EARLIER REWARDS).
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VIP: This reward includes "VIP Tickets to the final cut sneak premiere at CABLE CAR CINEMA with an after party in Providence, Rhode Island. You will also receive Associate Producer credit on the finished film and your name appears in the end credits under Associate Producer. (PLUS ALL OF THE EARLIER REWARDS)
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Fox Point Walkabout: Walking tour with the Director of Atlantic Portals of old Cape Verdean community in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island ending in brunch at a Cape Verdean restaurant (Rosinha’s). (PLUS ALL OF THE EARLIER REWARDS)
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Packet Captain: This reward includes a special Producer credit on the film! You’ll also receive a limited edition print of the poster. (PLUS ALL OF THE EARLIER REWARDS)
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Nha Terra (My Country): This package includes 2 (two) ten day travel packages from Neves Travel for two (double room) to island of Sal, Cape Verde to attend Cape Verde and World Premiere of the film at the Cape Verde International Film Festival/CVIFF in October (dates still to be confirmed) ; package includes air fare, hotel (not meals), VIP passes to CVIFF, tickets to the premiere party and dinner with the director. (PLUS ALL OF THE EARLIER REWARDS)
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Filmmaker, historian and second-generation Cape Verdean born and raised in Fox Point. I am an Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, and since 2007, I am a Visiting Scholar at Brown University in the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, and a Swearer Center Community Fellow. I am founder and President of SPIA Media Productions, Inc., a production and distribution company specializing in media from the Africana Diaspora.
http://www.emerson.edu
www.brown.edu/Departments/Race_Ethnicity/
Professor Ray Carney, Boston University, graciously gave me permission to share the comments he sent to one of my colleagues @ SKFPR after it aired on WSBE RI PBS on March 26 and March 27.
---"...... I meant to tell you that, for the second time, I viewed an amazing documentary made by one of your faculty, Claire Andrade-Watkins about growing up in Providence Rhode Island in the "black Portuguese" community/ghetto. Title: “Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?"
Just a marvelous piece of work. The whole rounded story. Truth from every angle, full of joy, anger, nostalgia, dread, fear, and life to the max! So rare not to have reality ground down to fit a thesis or a racial or sexual grudge. Andrade-Watkins gets it all: the boys in the Boys Club, the men in the bars, the music, the dancing, the loving, the hard hard work of a longshoreman, the horrible hours, the joyous weekends, the families at home and at church, the awfulness of urban renewal, the kindness of a few caring politicians..... Everything........ They(RI PBS) can't afford to show the expensive Ken Burns things that Channel 2 does, so they show these low budget indie small scale docs at midnight. And they are all amazing, amazing, amazing. But Claire's took the prize.
Now if you know her, or if she's still there, tell her how amazing she is......."
Ray
Ray Carney, Prof. of Film and American Studies
Author of: The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism and
the Movies (Cambridge University Press); The Films of Mike Leigh:
Embracing the World (Cambridge University Press); Speaking the
Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Cambridge University
Press); American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra (Cambridge
University Press); American Dreaming (University of California Press
at Berkeley); Shadows (British Film Institute/Macmillan); Cassavetes
on Cassavetes (Faber and Faber/Farrar, Straus); The Adventure of
Insecurity; Necessary Experiences; Why Art Matters; and other books,
essays, and editions.
Ray Carney's web site--"The Independent Film Pages"
http://www.Cassavetes.com
I am so proud to be a partner in this project. Claire, thank you so much for giving me the honor of having my CD as part of your rewards package. You are an amazing film-maker, and an even more amazing person. I wish you all of the success in the world. I know we can do it. I will keep doing my best to spread the word.
Beijos e Abracos,
Candida Rose
Keep it up as soon as my card has money I will be donating till then I will spread the word, can't wait to see the film! Congratulations on the success so far.
We hit $3,000! A good way to roll into week TWO. Thank you everyone, and keep spreading the word!