A Kickstarter Request From a Friend

So I am never sure about request like this BUT Cheryl is AMAZING and has done sooooooo very much for my career. Here is a link to the short documentary she did about me as a low vision artist which will be followed by her request.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NJYt7wewi4 

Dear Lavaun,

I'm hoping you might be willing to share this email with anyone you think might be interested in supporting my documentary film from your personal and professional networks. If you can pass it along to whoever sends things out for PCOD and OEHR as well, that would be amazing so they can consider sharing it on their email lists and/or Facebook pages. You are probably way way way too busy to put this on your blog, and it really might not fit on your own blog. But if it does and you are interested in doing that, well, it would be tremendous beyond tremendous. My constant thanks,

Cheryl

 

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Post-production time!

Filming the movie is only half the work.

We can never thank our funders enough, because it's our community's support, energy, enthusiasm, and drive that has helped us reach this huge milestone:  We completed filming "Who Am I To Stop It" in September, 2014. This is a feature-length documentary film on isolation, art, and transformation after brain injury. It's being created from within the brain injury community. We're now asking for community support to fund post-production work for this independent film! And who are we?

Cheryl Green: Director/Producer
Cynthia Lopez: Director/ProducerPaulius Kontijevas: Director of Photography (That's right, it's moving pictures!)Shawn Willis and Esteban Ortiz: Sound recordistsCassie Cohn, Eric Macey, Kai Tillman, and Steve Benassu: Super trusty fill-in videographers and sound recordistsTheresa Pridemore: Logo designerEmily von W. Gilbert: Editor

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Visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/807526735/who-am-i-to-stop-it to participate in our fundraising campaign. Please share with all your networks, friends, colleagues, and email lists.
Kickstarter has an amazing track record of helping independent filmmakers like us get their work completed!

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We are raising $12,000 by October 31st!

The money goes toward some of our post-production costs:

• Editing
• Color correction
• Sound design
• Audio post production
• Closed Captioning
• Audio Description
• Music licensing

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If you know of a business that might want to become a corporate sponsor, let us know, and we'll be in touch with some paperwork!

 [Image description: Close up of a person's arm. A tattoo in cursive script says "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger 10-30-07". This is the date of Dani's severe TBI. She got the tattoo recently as a reminder of her experiences and how far she has come.]   

Your efforts are helping us amplify the voices and the wonderful work of people who have experienced traumatic brain injury. We are a community of talented, creative people with agency. We thank you for seeing us as valued contributors to society.

Our humble thanks,

Cheryl and Cynthia  [Image description: A drawing of a pale pink brain in the shape of a heart.