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Backers,

We wanted to update you that as of yesterday, 'BUTTONS' has been submitted to Sundance for consideration of screening in the 2012 festival shorts program.  We are so happy to have finished the film on time.

We wait to hear back by mid-DEC as to whether or not we will be selected for screening.

There are several other film festivals we are tracking and preparing submissions for. 

Soon we will have a new website geared towards promotions & marketing of the film.  This website will also have our trailer and we hope to launch the website this coming week!

Thanks for your continued interest & support.  As always, you can follow our news by liking us at: www.facebook.com/buttonsintheground

-the BUTTONS team!

Backers!

The exciting time has come to invite you to the Turlock Premiere of BUTTONS IN THE GROUND!  The Turlock premiere will be the first official screening of the film.

We felt it appropriate, if not a "must", for us to screen the film in the town that provided the landscape and majority of support for us to make this dream a reality.

The premiere will be SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 at 7PM at the home of Tom & Cindy Waterson in Turlock, CA (4631 S. Washington Rd, Turlock, CA 95380).  While we begin at 7PM, we'll be sure most of our audience shows up (and the sun is down enough) that the colors of the film will play appropriately against a night sky.  We will host a question & answer series after the screening with possible cast and surely crew before we head to the backyard for some snacks.

So that we have enough seats, please RSVP yours and your guests' names to: buttonsRSVP@gmail.com.

Preparations are underway to start submitting 'BUTTONS' to film festivals.  We'll be relaying more news about this later in an update as well as live at the premiere!

We look forward to sharing this film with you!

- the BUTTONS team!

Backers..

It's been some time, and we want to say HAPPY NEW YEAR to you with a little update.

RE: POST PRODUCTION!

Since early DEC, we have been cracking away at the "rough cuts" on our project. We've had a few passes at it and each time our story continues to shine while we tighten up things here and there and deliberate amongst each other with notes and critiques.

Our Editor, Ben Sellick, and Director, Andrew, have been working hard and have delivered us rough cuts with a fairly quick turn-a-round.

Our plan is to try to test a cut of our project to an unbiased / unrelated audience either last week of JAN or first week of FEB. This will be the first time we can get TRUE, fresh eyes on our project and we will see how the reactions work based against what we can do to fine-tune the project.

In FEB, we will be calling on more resources (and perhaps pulling a few more funds from yet-to-come sources) to get through digital color correction, sound mixing & foley (adding the effects that create the ambiance of the Calvin home), score our project and then, ultimately, dub the project in 5.1 stereo sound so that it plays amazingly well in theaters.

RE: FILM FESTIVAL PLANNING!

During this process, we also find time to start researching film festivals nationwide (and even a couple closer-by international festivals?) and we have begun concept meetings about our marketing & publicity strategies- including a refreshing of our website (with teaser trailer & media downloads, facebook & twitter links...)- all this coming live to you in FEB or by MARCH!

Yes- the movie is shot and wrapped, but a lot of work remains ahead of us. All work we're very excited about, however!

RE: REWARDS FOR YOU!

We also wanted to write you to let you know we have not forgotten about various rewards promised to you during our fund-raising period. Some rewards (like digital updates, BTS videos and the like) have been easy to distribute as the internet is free! Other rewards, like t-shirts, will take more time for us as right now we want any money we saved during production to be first applied to post-production.

We feel that this is the the most responsible, prioritized way to spend the money you generously donated us!

If anyone has concerns about these rewards, we'd love for you to please email us directly. You can contact Trenton and Ben at:

trentonwaterson@gmail.com / benjamin.d.long@gmail.com

We would gladly get back to you with our plan on when we can finally distribute to you the items owed.

Thanks for your buzz and encouragement on the internets! We love the LIKES on facebook (our buttons facebook page: search, "BUTTONS IN THE GROUND") and we love the ways the internet has shared our project onto other blogs & sites where people have mentioned us.

That's quite an update! Thanks for your time reading...

-the BUTTONS team!

Backers...

All good things must come to an end... and this, our friends, is the end of our 'Buttons' shoot in Turlock, CA. What you'll see here is quite the last day. Not only did we battle high winds and rain in order to cover our garden (so we could set up the scene where Lucy picks Buttons...) but we had to pray, hope, dance for SUN to come out...

You'll also catch our wrap moment and finally be introduced to the crew of Buttons in the Ground!

LINK HERE: http://vimeo.com/17465555

Also BELOW is our CREW PHOTO!

Our coral reef shoot day is SAT 12/11.

Our thankful spirits are still with you as we send this your way. It's incredible to know that we have shot (most of) the movie. We are already into our rough cut to be finished with post-production by early MARCH.

Our deepest gratitude,

-the BUTTONS team!

PS: This is one of the last kick-starter updates. For future updates, please email trentonwaterson@gmail.com to get on the list or find us on facebook by searching "BUTTONS IN THE GROUND" and clicking the 'LIKE' button!