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Update #10: DVDs being shipped
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Posted on March 12, 2011
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Update #9: DVD is ready to send you
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Posted on March 5, 2011
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Update #8: Film in Theaters
Hello All,
Thanks for supporting this film. The film is currently in select theaters.
You can view which ones at www.burroughsthemovie.com or on our Facebook.
If you live near any of the showings and want to attend and qualify from your donation, let me know and I will get you tickets. DVD will be available in February.
Update #7: William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Hey all,
Thank you so much for supporting us. We will mail out your rewards as soon as they become available.
Please check our website for updates
Thanks!
Yony
Update #6: You rewards & Slamdance
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Posted on January 21, 2010
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Update #4: Thanks for continuing to support
Thank you all for continuing to support us beyond our goal! This helps us secure more footage of Burroughs, and more music!
Yony.
Update #3: Clarification
So just to clarify,
The film is finished, and now we have enough money to present it at Slamdance, which is amazing.
The film will premiere in two weeks, and after that should tour around the world in the spring/summer/fall.
Let me know what city you all live in and I will try to get it to play there.
The post below refers to certain material that we are trying to get rights to use. Whether or not we get the rights, the film is here to stay.
Thank you,
Yony
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Darren Nelsen on January 9, 2010
I'm near Atlanta, GA. Would love to see the film play here. Congrats on your funding.
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Update #2: Thank you!
We are at our goal!
Thank you all for helping us make our goal.
We however, have been hit by some unfortunate additional charges trying to license music, but it will happen.
Please help us settle these before Slamdance.
And, as an added incentive, I will send a Screen Printed poster, signed by one (or more) of the interviewees in the film for all gifts that come in the next eleven days for over $100
Thanks! Kickstarter, you have been great!
Yony
Update #1: New Pledges, new updates
Thank you so much for pledging and spreading the word.
Patti Smith and Sonic Youth have recorded music for the film and DONATED it. It sounds great!
yony
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Darren Nelsen on December 30, 2009
Awesome! I really look forward to seeing the film (and hearing the music!)
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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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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.
