A trip down memory lane to the early days of Gods and Kings. Click here to view
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By admin, on January 11th, 2012 Happy 2012! A million thanks to all of you for your support. We feel the love, but we still have a long way to go in 20 short days to make our fundraising goal, and to help with this we’ve added several new reward categories, including the actual fiberglass Disfraz masks featured in the film. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1660103647/gods-and-kings/posts/161102 Please take a moment to look at the new categories and spread the word to friends, family and coworkers. Together, we can make this happen! By admin, on December 22nd, 2011 Dear Friends, I am pleased to announce that “Gods and Kings” is extremely close to completion. Four years from my first solo shooting trip in January 2008, a 93 minute fine cut has been sent off to try its luck at several important festivals. But while we wait to hear which ones we got into, we need your help to make it legal, and make it pretty. That’s why we’ve launched a kickstarter campaign to raise $15,000 in finishing funds by the end of January. For those of you not familiar with Kickstarter, donations begin as pledges and only go through if the project reaches the goal it has set; in other words we get it all or we get nothing! We’re pretty sure we can get there, but it’s going to take everyone’s help. Your contribution will go toward finishing touches like color correction, a sound mix, special effects, and licensing historic archival footage. They’ll also allow us to make one last trip to Guatemala to share the movie with the community that helped create it. Donations above $30 reserve you an early edition of the DVD, complete with deleted scenes and an in-depth look at Momostenango’s festival tradition. As you gather with your family around the menorah or the yuletide hearth this year, think of Momostenango’s Christmas “Diablo Dancers”, who will soon be donning their rubber Beavis and Butthead masks and silver body spray to dance half naked in the chilly mountain air. Let’s get this timely story of Maya magic and mass media off the ground for 2012, and reach the world before the world ends! Thank you for being a part of this strange little project – and have an amazing holiday! All the best, Momostenango Diablos Dance in the 90s, photographed by Kermit Frazier By admin, on September 26th, 2011 I know it’s been a dog’s age since you heard from us, but let me tell you what’s happened since the last post: The multitalented Rachel Lears has signed on as co-producer. Her first contribution was to cast our fantastic voice over narrator, Anais Alexandra Tekarian, who is continuing to record with us, as we finalize the script. Ryan Blotnick has returned from the wilds of Maine to compose and record an original score. We’re supposed to start working on that today in fact. We’ve been digging through archival footage all summer, and unearthed some rare beauties, like “Desafio 10” a USAID-produced reality TV contest starring Guatemalan gang members – a spectacular and tragic failure. Many thanks to filmmaker Rob Davenport and former contestant Sergio Nix for that footage. Next week, we’re making a trip to the National Archives to grab the final pieces of our film’s historical jigsaw puzzle. As of this moment, we have a watchable two hour rough cut, but we’re trying to chop it down to ninety minutes this week, to prepare for Madison avenue-style focus group screenings. Expect your invitation soon! With all this momentum, we are boldly setting our sights on several festivals with October and November deadlines. The next stop will be a return to Momostenango to share the project with the participants. Oh yeah – and thanks to our Associate Producer Josh Weiss (happy birthday Josh!), with the help of our friend Marvin at the Hotel Otoño, a Utah woman named Letty Perez was able to locate her husband’s long-lost family in Momostenango. Here’s a clip from her letter to Josh:
If that won’t bring some good fortune to the project and everyone involved, I don’t know what will! All the best, |
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