March 2021 Update

Thanks for your support of the Patrick Scully films!

 

Some Color possibilities on Leaves of Grass: Illuminated by Colorist Dave Sweet of Pixel Farm productions.

Happy spring to our supporters of the Patrick Scully films. It's so sweet to see the snow melt!

The coloring has just begun on "Leaves of Grass: Illuminated"! This film is the live performance from the Guthrie theater in the summer of 2019. Above you can see a possible look to the movie's final color tone. I am very happy to have Dave Sweet doing the color on "Leaves of Grass: Illuminated".

I want to thank Patrick for putting out a call for performance videos that were filmed at the Cabaret during his tenure. 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. Because of this call, the Walker Art Center has contacted us about looking at some events they held at the Cabaret. That is very encouraging. This is another example of the collaborative nature of films. This film isn't just about Patrick, its also about the community around him and the Cabaret.

We are looking for possible film fests to premiere the live performance film this year. If you know of a great one, pls send me a link.

We continue to edit the biopic, "The Dance Is Not Over"  about Patrick Scully. Our editor Skip Davis has just made another cut, which I will review this week. We are getting close 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 $125 got us a step closer to our goals. Thanks Jay and Adam!

Can you give $22? 1000,  $22 donations gets us to our goal.  This is what we have left to raise.

$5,000 towards the edit of the films

$1500 for color correction for the Biopic

$3,750 for original music

$6,000 for Production and Direction

 $2750 for Audio mixing 

$2500 for Rights & clearances

$500 for Festival costs

The 22K 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

January 2021 Film Update

Thanks for your support for the Patrick Scully film!

Happy New Year! We continue to edit the films about Patrick Scully. As I said in November we are now making TWO films about Patrick! The first is a film about his performance as Whitman at the Guthrie theater and the second a biopic of of his life and art.

Photo provided by Dave Sweet
Digital Colorist Dave Sweet of Pixel Farm productions.

The performance film is nearing the point where we will working with film colorist Dave Sweet of Pixelfarm productions. He will adjust the film's images so that all three cameras we shot at the Guthrie will match and look great for its premiere at a film festival or on TV. Big thanks for our editor Skip Davis to getting both films to this point.

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 during Give To The Max got us $3,150 closer to our goal of $25,000. thank you for that!

Can you give $22? 1000,  $22 donations gets us to our goal.  This is what we have left to raise.

$5,000 towards the edit of the films
$1500 for color correction for the Biopic
$3,750 for original music
$6,000 for Production and Direction 
$2750 for Audio mixing 
$2500 for Rights & clearances
$500 for Festival costs

The 22K 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

Give It To The Max 2020

Thanks to all the generous friends and supporters who gave to our project on Patrick Scully. We raised almost 3K of our 25K goal. It has been amazing to see how many of you want and support this film to be made! https://www.givemn.org/story/Bs3gcf

Please support the Patrick Scully Film on Give It To The Max!

I want to thank all who have sent in donations in the last two months. You donations paid for the remote interview we just did last Friday with John Killacky. John is the former Walker Art Center Performing Arts Curator, he's currently a State Representative in Vermont. It was a fantastic interview, with so many good stories from his time in MN in the 80s and 90s. We wouldn't have been able to do that without your generosity. As you know, this film is 98% funded by your individual donations!

This year we have teamed up with our non-profit fiscal sponsor Film North so you can support the Patrick Scully film on Give it to the Max! For the next 4 days, please use this link, https://www.givemn.org/story/Bs3gcf. If we get enough, your donations may help us qualify for extra bonus GITHMax awards.

We are now setting our sites on fishing funds, we're hoping that the Killacky interview is our last interview. As you know filmmaking is costly. Can you give $25? 1000 $25 donations gets us to our goal. This is what we have left to raise.

$5,000 towards the edit of the films

$4,500 for color correction

$3,500 for original music

$6,000 for Production and Direction

$3,000 for Audio mixing

$2500 for Rights & clearances

$500 for Festival costs

The 25K goal is to finish post-production. You can donate tax deductible with our fiscal sponsor Film North here, https://www.givemn.org/story/Bs3gcf or after Thursday 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

October Film Update

The work and the progress on my documentary about Patrick Scully continues. I'm thriled to say we are close to finishing up with all the main interviews.

Our next interview, with former Walker Art Center curator, John Killacky, photo by Todd-R-Lockwood and used with permission.

I hope you all are enjoying Autumn. During peak color in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, I was riding my bike and had the pleasure of running into Patrick and his partner Kevin near the Mississippi. I asked them how they were? and they said, "We're great, we come down to this spot on Main Street and look at this wonderful red maple every fall."  It was a truly glorious bright red and a perfect day to lay on the grass and enjoy nature. I found that to be a perfect moment of synchronicity to bump into them. Even though its gotten colder, as an optimist I'm holing out for a warmer November. Who is with me? We are getting close to covering the costs of our next interview with former Walker Art Center Performing Arts curator John Killacky. I hope to be directing that interview this November. I am eager to hear his opinion on Patrick's influence and his importance to the local and national dance and performing scene. John was also an important gatekeeper to many GLBTQ performers while at the Walker and a key insider to the NEA culture wars of the 1990s. It should be very interesting. I want to thank all who have sent in about $800 in donations in the last two months. If you haven't given yet, please consider it. We have applied for grants but are still waiting for our lucky phone call. Right now this film is 100% funded by your donations. We did receive our first Institutional donation by the Chinese Heritage Foundation. So I thank them for their generous gift of $250. Our goal is to raise another another $11,000 to finish shooting and interviewing. You can donate tax deductible with our fiscal sponsor Film North or on 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. Lastly, Lets all wish Patrick a happy birthday this month on the 22nd of October! Thanks for all your love and help with this project! Mark Wojahn director

Here's our teaser for the film, check it out!