September 2021 Documentary Update

Welcome to autumn and happy September, This is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the cooler temps and the fall colors. We have some very good news to announce. We have a World Premiere of "Leaves of Grass: Illuminated"  this October at the Twin Cities Film Fest.

The fesitval runs October 21-30th at the Showplace Icon Theaters in St.Louis Park. There will be an in-person screening and also a virtual event for those who prefer to watch at home. Stay tuned for our screening time, we don't know it yet. As most of you know, this movie documents the live performance of Scully's Walt Whitman at the Guthrie theater. We are working hard polishing the audio and finishing the credits. I am so excited and can't wait for y'all to see this performance of Patrick's on the big screen! Below is our first trailer for the film.

The other news that we are excited to share with you is, there will be a A Fundraiser Gala & Cabaret at The Women's Club of Minneapolis on November 4th at 6pm. We hope you all can attend and help us celebrate these film and get our final finishing funds. More details will be forthcoming but Please Save the date, 11/4/21 at 6pm.

As I have said before, this film is 98% funded by your individual donations! We still are looking for more donations or grants for these finishing funds. Your gifts last summer of of $1073 got us a big step closer to our goals. Thanks Lee, Rebecca & Kerry!

Can you give $19? One thousand $19 donations gets us to our goal. 
This is what we have left to raise.

$3325 towards the edit of the films
$1200 for Color Correction of the 2nd film
$3,750 for original music
$5329 for Production and Direction 
$2750 for Audio mixing 
$2500 for Rights & clearances
$402 for Festival costs

The 19K 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

August 2021- Commercial Art Dept Update

As many of you know, Mark also works as a Propmaster, Art Director and Production designer.

Here are some updates he can share. Below, are some newly released projects and some new props that are available for rent.

Above is a recent Cellcom commercial featuring Green Bay Packer, David Bakhtiari. This is the third shoot I've gotten to do with the very funny director Fred Goss. It was produced by Rebecca Brown of Company Films. It was shot in Green Bay with production mgr & locations by Nicholaus Langholff.

Below is one of four spots I art directed for Travel Wisconsin, directed by Jeff Stonehouse, produced by Howdy Gang, It was super fun to shoot at some of the most iconic locations in Wisconsin found by Nicholaus Langholff. The campfire in this spot is made with my flame bar!

On both projects, I was part of great crews and I'm very happy with what we did. Go team film!
For those of you who don't know, I now work as a local out of Minneapolis and Milwaukee!

Here are some new prop to rent!

These both work, just got them this week. My research says they are from the 1930's. I will be ordering new ribbons asap. Photo by Mark Wojahn.

Production Design & Art Direction Reel (2020) from Mark Wojahn on Vimeo.

For those that haven't seen it yet, here is my Production Design reel for 2020. Lots of clips from the feature, "Tuscaloosa" by Philip Harder.  Click here to watch my reel, or watch above.

June Documentary Update

Welcome to June y'all! and happy HOT & colorful Pride Month.

I've been a little quiet on the Patrick Scully films for the last 7 weeks. Many of you don't know, that I also work as a production designer and prop master for film. I just got to do a film up on the North Shore. Now that is wrapped, I am getting back to directing my labor of love, documentaries.

The collage above shows all of the festivals that we have applied for. We've also applied to the McKnight grant for filmmakers, pls wish us luck! It would be great to have a late summer or fall premiere of "Leaves of Grass: Illuminated". As most of you know, this movie documents the live performance of Scully's Walt Whitman at the Guthrie theater. Our editor Skip Davis continues to master this film.

As soon as we get 'Leaves' mastered we will continue to edit the biopic, "The Dance Is Not Over". 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 in April of $671 got us a step closer to our goals. Thanks Lee, Jason B, Susan, Jason T and Elizabeth!

Can you give $20? One thousand $20 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

$5329 for Production and Direction

$2750 for Audio mixing

$2500 for Rights & clearances

$402 for Festival costs

The 20K goal is to finish post-production. You can donate tax deductible with our fiscal sponsor Film North, (https://filmnorth.org/.../patrick-scully-the-dance-is.../) or to our gofundme page (https://www.gofundme.com/.../patrick-scully-moviethe...) 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

Wojahn Art Directs Evanescense video

Hey Yall, here is a cool project I was lucky to Art Direct last month, Evanescence's new video "Better Without You". David Weiberg (MNFX) was the Production designer, Tiny Proctor was my FX Lead, Steve Hintz supplied gear, Scott Nordhausen and Jason Thomas were my set dressers. Directed by Eric Howell, Produced by Jillian Nodland and shot by Bo Hakala, gaffed by Mike Handley and shot at Acme Stage.There were so many more on this great crew, Enjoy!

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