April 2021 Update

I hope y'all are enjoying the spring. We have been busy with the Patrick Scully films. We are applying to grants and film festivals with "Leaves of Grass: Illuminated". As most of you know this movie documents the live performance of Scully's Walt Whitman at the Guthrie. Dave Sweet has done an awesome job coloring the film. Shane Rock Nelson of Omni-Fusion Media did a bang up job creating motion graphics titles for it and he found some wonderful music for those beginning and ending sequences. Your donations paid for all these efforts! Thank you donors!

We got a good response from Patrick's call for footage and photos from the Cabaret. The Walker Art Center, David Daniels, Timothy Herwig and Rosy Simas all sent things in. I'm still reviewing the footage. Thank you, together we are making this!  If you have films or tapes from your performance, pls send them to me. We'd love to review them and also look at any show bills or photographs.

Like I said above, Leaves of Grass: Illuminated is being sent to film festivals! Please cross; fingers, legs and toes for a late summer of fall premiere.  It felt so great to get to a place where one of the films is at a submittable stage. Your donations paid for the festival submissions!

We continue to edit the biopic, "The Dance Is Not Over". I had three sessions with our editor Skip Davis in March and he is just about to make another cut. We are getting closer to having the "audio cut" finished on that film. Thanks Skip for getting both films closer to completion.

As you know, this film is 98% funded by your individual donations! We still are looking for more donations or grants for finishing funds. Your gifts last month of $602 got us a step closer to our goals. Thanks Lee, Pat, Andy, Carol & Rachel!

Can you give $21? One thousand $21 donations gets us to our goal.  This is what we have left to raise.

$4398 towards the edit of the films
$1200 for Color Correction of the 2nd film
$3,750 for original music
$6,000 for Production and Direction 
$2750 for Audio mixing 
$2500 for Rights & clearances
$402 for Festival costs

The 21K goal is to finish post-production. You can donate tax deductible with our fiscal sponsor Film North or to our gofundme page. Click on those highlighted links. Click here to see our funding trailer. If you've spread the word through sharing this email. I appreciate it. If you want to help in other ways pls contact me and we can talk.

Thanks for all your love and help with this project!

Mark Wojahn
director