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Funding Successful
This project successfully raised its funding goal on January 17, 2010.
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Typhoid Mary -- Thanks on website
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Clem Snide -- 1. Receive a copy of the film on DVD or digital download once it is released
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JOHNNY YEN -- At this level you will receive: 1. A ticket to a screening at a film festival in your area 2. A copy of the DVD 3. Special Thanks on the website.
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DR. BENWAY -- At this level you will receive: 1. A Special Thanks in the film 2. A signed framed still from the film 3. A ticket to a screening at a film festival in your area 4. A copy of the DVD 5. A Special thanks on the website.
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Old Bull Lee -- At this level you will receive: 1. An original Burroughs Adding Machine, invented by William's grandfather. There is only one of these rare relics. 2. A Special Thanks in the film 3. A signed framed still from the film 4. A ticket to a screening at a film festival in your area 5. A copy of the DVD 6. A Special thanks on the website.
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NAKED LUNCHMATE -- At this level you will receive: 1. An Associate Producer credit 2. Dinner with the director 3. A Special Thanks in the film 4. A signed framed still from the film 5. A ticket to a screening at a film festival in your area 6. A copy of the DVD 7. A Special thanks on the website.
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Connected as Yony Leyser
Yony Leyser is a twenty-five-year-old filmmaker living in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He has directed several short films. His award winning feature length film William S. Burroughs: A Man Within has played extensively around the world and in theaters in the United States.
He also works as a curator, video artist and photographer, documenting people who are outside the mainstream of society. His photograph series have included a utopian transgender commune in Tennessee; an anarchist village in Copenhagen; Berlin’s largest squat, and naked bike rides in the US. His work has been shown work in galleries and theaters around the world. Yony Leyser brings a more personal perspective to his films, choosing subjects very carefully.
He attended California Institute for the Arts, and The New School University, receiving his Bachelors in Arts degree in 2007.
