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Funding Successful

This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 1, 2010.

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7 Backers • Limited Reward (43 of 50 remaining)

Get ready for some CHAMPION sticker action! Good for putting on your forehead, your friends, and your trendy Apple device! You get a limited edition set of SEVEN stickers of characters from THE CHAMPION: William, Meg Musique, The Queen, Maurice, The Laughing Cloud, Lady Chaquita, and The Whisps!

Pledge $10 or more

7 Backers

YES! You now have access to THE CHAMPION KICKSTARTER UPDATES! We'll post secret updates (like character sketches and storyboards and director's notes and commentary) not available elsewhere as the animation moves along!

Pledge $20 or more

14 Backers • Limited Reward (16 of 30 remaining)

You will receive a bottle of our very own delicious home-brewed CHAMPION OF BEERS! Lovingly hand-crafted and bottled at Cory's house in Brooklyn! This reward is only available for people of legal drinking age in either NYC or the DC area.

Pledge $25 or more

26 Backers

Your name will be immortalized on screen in the "Special Thanks" section of the credits of THE CHAMPION!

Pledge $35 or more

8 Backers

Not only will your name be in the "Special Thanks" section of the credits, but you ALSO get a personalized thank you poem penned by the wonderful director/writer Lesley Choy! Your choice of Limerick or Acrostic!

Pledge $40 or more

4 Backers • Limited Reward (6 of 10 remaining)

Your name in the "Special Thanks" section of the credits AND an autographed copy of Lesley Choy's THE KLEZMER KATZ!

Pledge $44 or more

4 Backers • Limited Reward (21 of 25 remaining)

In addition to your name being under the SPECIAL THANKS section of the credits, you will receive a PINT of our very own delicious home-brewed CHAMPION ALE! Lovingly hand-crafted and bottled at Cory's house in Brooklyn! This reward is only available for people of legal drinking age in either NYC or the DC area.

Pledge $50 or more

15 Backers

WOO HOO! Because you are awesome, you get your name in the "Special Thanks" section of the credits PLUS a login and password so that you can view the exclusive backer's-only HIGH QUALITY screener copy of THE CHAMPION when we finish it! You will be part of our test audience, and we will be seeking YOUR opinion about our fine cut!

Pledge $75 or more

4 Backers

THE CHAMPION BACKER'S PACKAGE: Your name in the "Special Thanks" section of the credits, a login and password to our exclusive backer's only online preview screening, AND your very own physical LIMITED EDITION copy of THE CHAMPION complete with a super de dooper extras section!

Pledge $99 or more

2 Backers • Limited Reward (18 of 20 remaining)

In addition to your name being listed in the SPECIAL THANKS section of the credits, you will receive SIX BOTTLES of our very own delicious home-brewed CHAMPION ALE: The CHAMPION of beers! Lovingly hand-crafted and bottled at Cory's house in Brooklyn! This reward is only available for people of legal drinking age in either NYC or the DC area.

Pledge $100 or more

8 Backers

You are the best! Along with numerous high fives, you will receive THE CHAMPION Backer's Package AND a digital copy of RUDE AWAKENING, Cory Choy's first animation!

Pledge $250 or more

3 Backers • Limited Reward (22 of 25 remaining)

You and one guest are officially invited to the exclusive cast and crew party and opening screening of the CHAMPION in NYC! You will also receive a Champion Backer's Package, high fives, an autographed THE CHAMPION MOVIE POSTER and a BIG SMILE!

Pledge $300 or more

4 Backers • Limited Reward (1 of 5 remaining)

One of the original character design sketches, autographed by the amazing Tina Brunner, is now yours! You also get a Champion Backer's Package!

Pledge $365 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (1 of 1 remaining)

This is a one of a kind prize: You can have our PUBLIC ENEMY poster signed by Chuck D, James Bomb & Pop Diesel. BOOM.

Pledge $372 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (1 of 1 remaining)

Four New York Giants (2007 NFL Superbowl CHAMPIONS) have signed a mini-helmet for us. It could be yours! Shaun O Hara, Steve Smith, Aaron Ross, and Antrel Rolle!

Pledge $399 or more

1 Backer • Limited Reward (3 of 4 remaining)

BACK by popular demand! A THREE HOUR RECORDING SESSION at Silver Sound! Only 4 of these available!

Pledge $400 or more

1 Backer SOLD OUT (0 of 1 remaining)

SILVER SOUND will give you or a friend A THREE HOUR RECORDING SESSION at Silver Sound! (and a Champion Backer's Package)

Pledge $500 or more

3 Backers • Limited Reward (3 of 6 remaining)

You are a true CHAMPION of THE CHAMPION! You will receive a Champion Backer's Package and an ASSOCIATE PRODUCER'S CREDIT IN OUR CREDITS AND ON OUR IMDB PAGE!

Pledge $1,000 or more

1 Backer • Limited Reward (4 of 5 remaining)

Your likeness/caricature will appear in the movie as a minor supporting character! That's right, we're gonna animate you. You also get a Champion Backer's Package, an Associate Producer Credit in the credits and on our IMDB page, and an invitation to our cast/crew/screening party!

Pledge $2,500 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (3 of 3 remaining)

Congratulations! You are a co-producer of THE CHAMPION. You will be on our IMDB page AND you will be in our credits. You also will get a fancy private dinner screening of THE CHAMPION for you and three guests in Silver Sound's NYC studio!

Pledge $5,000 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (1 of 1 remaining)

Your name appears on the opening titles of our movie as an EXECUTIVE PRODUCER. You also get IMDB credit as an EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, as well as a CHAMPION BACKERS PACKAGE. You also will get a fancy private dinner screening of THE CHAMPION for you and three guests in Silver Sound's NYC studio!

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I was born in Silver Spring, Maryland.

My parents play a lot of music. One time I had a dream about a song. The next day I plunked it out on the piano in the living room. My mom asked me how I knew the love song my dad had written for her before they got married.

In high school I played in a band. We played a lot on the docks of Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.

In college I studied film at NYU. My focus was on sound and animation.

After college I apprenticed with sound mastercraftsman Bern Hayden.

Four years ago I opened up Silver Sound (www.silversound.us) with Robin Shore.

Now I'm sound engineering, and working on producing THE CHAMPION: an animated musical comedy that concerns William, a young publishing-house employee, who risks losing love in a quest to fulfill his ambition. My mom wrote it. It is a beautiful story. It has some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard in my life. It is my quest to complete this movie and share it with the world.

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