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

Halloween Party

I had an awesome Halloween party at my house. The winners of the costume contest are below. My good friend George was "Ashevegas" as a casino dealer with the table attached as part of his costume. It was both an awesome costume and a functional game, as everyone at the party took turns playing poker. Mom was a dumb blond who heard there was a costume party and wore a "mask." And I learned how to make sugar glass, which is basically just hard candy. I broke up a sheet of it and stabbed it into red velvet cupcakes with a little red icing for some awesome bloody cupcakes. I love Halloween.

Katie

Asheville Cinema Festival

I had an amazing weekend at the Asheville Cinema Festival! The festival was very well organized and they treated the filmmakers really well. I attended great panel discussions on screenwriting and distribution and my movie screened 4 different times. The most exciting screening was at Regal on a really really big screen! I met a lot of great people and now I can't wait for next year's festival. The film that got in is a very short claymation (1 minute and 15 seconds in total) called "On High" and I'll have that posted soon.

Katie