Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 9:39AM 
Here is the official trailer for Leaves of Grass- Illuminated. Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 3:01PM We have a big month coming up!
We have Leaves of Grass premiering at the Twin Cities Film Fest October 23rd and a big fundraiser at The Women's Club of Minneapolis on November 4th! It will be the World Premiere of "Leaves of Grass: Illuminated" 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. Our in-person screening will be at 830pm on Saturday the 23rd. Come early to see Patrick on the red carpet. 
As most of you know, this movie documents the live performance of Scully's Walt Whitman at the Guthrie theater. I am so excited and can't wait for y'all to see this performance of Patrick's on the big screen!
Here is the link for tickets, https://twincitiesfilmfest.org/theater-event/leaves-of-grass-illuminated
The other news that we are excited to share with you is,
Patrick Scully and Mark Wojahn invite you to a Filmmaker’s Evening and Fundraiser to complete the new documentary “The Dance is Not Over: The Patrick Scully Story”
Thursday, November 4 | 6:00 – 9:00 pm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis | 410 Oak Grove Street
Dive into an evening of performance and film, hors d’ oeuvres and drinks, dancing and red carpets to raise the final funds to complete Mark Wojahn’s film that documents the life and work of Patrick Scully.
“The Dance is Not Over: The Patrick Scully Story,” documents and celebrates the life and work of Minneapolis’ well-known Gay dancer, performance artist, storyteller, and activist. Patrick’s story chronicles the events of a generation and is critically important to document for future generations. The completed film will be available on streaming services and will be preserved at the University of Minnesota’s Tretter Collection of Patrick Scully.
All donations will be designated for the completion of this work.
Funders giving $20,000 will be credited as Executive Producers
$10,000 will be credited as Producers
$5,000 will be credited as Associate Producers
Any amount will also be listed in the credits of the film.
Our goal is to raise $65,000 to fully fund and ensure that Patrick’s story – which in many ways is all our stories – gets told.
I want to thank Lee, Margaret, Wilbur & June for the $1558 we raised in the last 30 days!
In addition to screening clips from “The Dance is Not Over: The Patrick Scully Story,” scenes from “Leaves of Grass – Illuminated,” a related Wojahn documentary of Patrick’s show at the Guthrie Theater, will also be presented. (“Leaves of Grass – Illuminated” will premiere October 23rd at the Twin Cities Film Festival.)
Scheduled to Appear
Patrick Scully + Mark Wojahn, Director + Greg Winter, Director of Photography + Siama Matuzungidi and Dallas Johnson, musicians + Eyenga Bokamba, painter, writer and performance artist + DJ Cyn Collins
Suggested minimum donation - $100
Proof of vaccination and an ID is required for attendance and must be presented at the door.
Reservations required here on Eventbrite
Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/filmmakers-fundraiser-evening-tickets-180403079467 view on Facebook at https://fb.me/e/2BCJsu9zN
Donations Link:
Tax deductible: https://filmnorth.org/fiscally-sponsored-projects/patrick-scully-the-dance-is-not-over/
Non-tax deductible: https://www.gofundme.com/f/patrick-scully-moviethe-dance-is-not-over
For more information, contact Mark Wojahn and Patrick Scully via email at xlart2@gmail.com.
Thanks for all your love and help with this project!
Mark Wojahn
director
Friday, September 17, 2021 at 4:37PM 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.
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
Monday, August 9, 2021 at 4:13PM 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.
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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.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 11:52AM 