New Web Series for Comedy Feature Film

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/233019965/touched-by-angels-feature-film/posts

I'm working on a new web series called "The Adventures of K.T. and Mezudio."  It's a comedy.  We started doing the series as a way to promote the feature film I'll be directing in June.  Right now the only place you can watch these is on kickstarter at the link above.

The series stars Matt Shepard (pictured to the left) and David Dietrich (below.)  Matt plays the demon K.T. who is forced to work with Mezudio an angel who is trying to teach the demon his angelic ways.  The webisodes are only a couple of minutes each and there will be 5 episodes.  In the meantime check out the introduction here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/233019965/touched-by-angels-feature-film/posts/204379

And keep up with the feature film as we release more webisodes and work to raising funds to make out movie in June.

My documentary "My Toxic Backyard" is still in it's slow post production phase.  My editor is back from Ecuador and we're meeting next month to work out how we will transfer footage and share editing time lines over different systems.  I have a great music supervisor Michael Greer O'Shea music producer at Solotechne Records.  I have also been working with Bryan Matthew Warren on computer animation and graphics.  Things are moving along for the project.

In bigger news the CTS site was just accepted onto the National Priority List!  This is huge!  This means the site is a big priority for the EPA.  This is what's supposed to get the site cleaned.  I say "supposed to" because I've been hearing from residents that they will not be getting hooked up to city water like they need.  I imagine this will be a long process and the battling with no doubt continue.  I do feel like this is a step in the right direction and I'll be following the developments and let you know what happens.

Katie

I'm making a Comedy Feature Film!

The documentary is still in the works. I'm still editing and there will be just a little more shooting to be done with that. For the past 2 years I've also been developing a comedy feature length movie with a local production company (Gorilla With a Mustache Films) and we're about to start our fund raising so we can shoot this summer.

On Wednesday, March 28th we'll be launching our kickstarter campaign. A lot of you have already given to my documentary and I expect the rest of the group will be doing most of the fund raising. What I'm hoping to get from my friends is $1. Seriously, just $1 on Wednesday will help boost our interest level on the kickstarter site and hopefully get us listed prominently.
I'll be sending a link to the campaign on Wednesday. If you want a copy of the movie or want to give more, that's awesome. Just know that giving $1 right in the beginning will really help our visibility. Thanks everyone!

Katie

Kickstarter Success!

We did it! I really was loosing hope in the end, but I got my Christmas wish and funding for my documentary was successful! The campaign was 104% funded by 85 people! Everyone who pledged played a part in making this happen. I’m so grateful to my friends and family who helped and also to the complete strangers who contributed. Now I’m able to move forward and get this documentary finished. It’s back to the grindstone. My goal is to have this documentary finished by this summer in time for some big film festival deadlines. Thank you everyone!

Katie

Over $1000 Pledged to my Documentary!

We passed the S1000 mark and someone from Japan even pledged. There's still more to go. Please share this project with friends and help spread the word and thank you everyone who has already supported the project.

Katie

Kickstarter!

My kickstarter page is launched:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/233019965/toxic-asheville-feature-documentary

Go pledge your support to this project and help raise awareness about a problem most Americans don't even know about. Clean drinking water isn't just an issue for third world countries. We have our own set of problems right here at home. Hint: watch till the end of the video, there are some funny bloopers.

Katie

I'm Crowdsourcing my Documentary!

So what is crowdsourcing? Well, instead of funding a project through a few large investors, you use a large group of investors giving a small amount. The site I'm using is called Kickstarter. You can check out my profile here: http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/233019965

They have lots of artists who need funding to complete their projects. The project I'm working on is my feature length documentary "Toxic Asheville." With kickstarter, if you don't meet your goal, no one pays. I will be fund raising for 40 days and my goal is $5000. The really neat thing about this site is that when you pledge and the goal is met, you will get different rewards for your pledges. For example, with my project if you pledge $25 you'll get a thank you credit in the movie and a DVD of my movie when it's finished. So in a way, it's kind of like pre-selling. I won't go into detail here, because that will all be on my page when I launch it.

So why and I telling you all this now? I'm hoping everyone will go and pledge on my opening day (Wednesday the 16th) or shortly there after. You don't have to give big, just $1 on Wednesday will get me some attention. If I can generate a big start with a lot of interest in my page, it might be featured as one of their "New and Noteworthy" projects and hopefully get seen by a lot more people. So go check out kickstarter and register now. The payments are made through Amazon.com, so if you've ever bought anything on Amazon, it will be easy to set up an account at http://www.kickstarter.com. I'll send out a reminder on Wednesday with a link when the page has been launched. Wish me luck!

Katie