Update #3: Learning Tea potentially going NATIONAL
So I can't divulge the full details but Katrell had a very promising meeting yesterday and a deal is in the works with a nationwide grocery chain to sell The Learning Tea in their stores. This is BIG!!!
What it means for the film is that Katrell's dream to spread the project to other tea producing areas is going to be possible. So we'll be able to follow her as looks for a tea plantation and an orphanage in the region where Assam tea is grown.
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Tea Leaf: The filmmakers will send you a hand-drawn or collaged postcard from India with an update from the field during production. Not a mass marketed generic image but your own postcard art and a handwritten note to boot! If you mailbox feels lonely and anonymous this is the support level for you!
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Teaspoon: In addition to a postcard from India with an update from the field during production. You will receive a signed 8 x10 digital photographic print on archival paper from Phoebe or Katrell. And you will get an advance copy of The Learning Tea on DVD upon completion. For those of you who like to be ahead of the curve.
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Teacup: In addition to a postcard from India and a signed 8 x10 digital photographic print on archival paper from Phoebe or Katrell, we will send you one suprise tea related item from India--could be a drawing, a teacup, who knows! In addition you will be sent one package of Learning Tea and you will get a free DVD and given a special thanks in the credits.
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Tea Lover: In addition to a postcard from India, you will receive a signed 16 x20 archival digital photographic print from Phoebe or Katrell, and 5 packages of Learning Tea with a specially chosen teacup. You will be sent a thank you letter from one of the girls in the orphanage, two free DVDs and a Contributing Producer credit. We will also send you a surprise perk from our travels--something weird and wonderful.
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Tea Farmer: You will get all of the perks that the Tea lover gets and a special handmade book of stories and photographs from India created by the director. Additionally you will be invited to a special VIP screening upon the film's completion and be able to have an open dialogue with the filmmakers about the process.
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An independent filmmaker with an MFA in photography who has written, produced and directed numerous short documentary films. Phoebe Brown’s film "99 to 1: Ovarian Cancer and Me" has screened in festivals worldwide and won the Jury Prize for Short Film at the 2009 International Health Film Festival in Greece. Phoebe co-produced “Grounded by Reality” the winner of the American Documentary/POV award in the International Documentary Challenge 2010 and hopes for a national broadcast in 2011.
Phoebe participated in Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School 2010 where she learned how to pick a lock and forge necessary documents which she will add to her other unusual skills: placing an IV catheter in a cat, propagating English heather, and booking train tickets in India.
