Every Day Is a Holiday - Documentary Film by Theresa Loong http://www.everydayisaholiday.org Allied Prisoners of War, World War Two Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:33:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 In Contract with ITVS! http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/in-contract-with-itvs/ http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/in-contract-with-itvs/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:33:03 +0000 admin http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/?p=38 ITVS contracted with Every Day Is a Holiday! Here’s the link. Sachi Schuricht (who made a great documentary about speedcubing) interviewed me: http://beyondthebox.org/newly-contracted-itvs-announces-funding-for-every-day-is-a-holiday/

I’m so thrilled to have the support of ITVS and my station partner, Kentucky Educational Television (KET). Stay tuned for local and national television broadcast dates!

The only catch is that I still need to raise a remaining $23600, to close my funding gap. These funds are needed to cover expenses such as post-production (ex : sound design, graphic animation, color correction), archival licensing and promotion/outreach. You can help me bridge that gap in three ways:

1) make a tax-deductible charitable donation through this Women Make Movies link:
http://www.wmm.com/filmmakers/sponsored_projects.shtml#473

2) introduce me to friends or partners who could be interested in supporting the project

3) encourage people to like my page on FB

As you may know, this adventure has been going on for a number of years. I am in the “home stretch” and I am very grateful for your support and generosity.

Join our roster of donors!

Thank you.

]]> http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/in-contract-with-itvs/feed/ 0 Crowdfunding: Kickstarter How To (with a nod to IndieGogo and Touscoprod) http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/crowdfunding-kickstarter-how-to-with-a-nod-to-indiegogo/ http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/crowdfunding-kickstarter-how-to-with-a-nod-to-indiegogo/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:12:53 +0000 admin http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/?p=37 In response to people asking me how I created my Kickstarter campaign, I offer you this Google Doc called “Raising Funds on Kickstarter”:

Quick background:
Last year, I was skeptical that anyone would be able to raise more than $10,000 on a crowdfunding site. My friend Ned Gubbins spoke with the folks at Touscoprod (a European version of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo) as well as a European representative of Facebook. The document includes his methodology and my edits, as well as advice from various people. Best of luck with your campaign!

Ned produced this film:
(No) Laughing Matter – the Film (Blagues à part)
Ned built the film’s FB fans to over 1000 during the course of the campaign
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=96271850996
Raised: 25,370€
419 coproducers
http://www.touscoprod.com/pages/projet/fiche.php?s_id=503
Btw, Ned still needs help with distribution contacts here in the U.S.
nolaughingmatter@eoproductions.net

Also I’m a member of a film collective called The FilmShop. We’ve raised about $140,000 for our individual projects on both KS and IndieGoGo thus far. See examples here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2094903991/a-regeneration-a-unique-documentary-from-leave-it/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/412656220/vegucated-documentary
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1819373046/the-musicwood-documentary
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1562349006/the-reiss-disorder-feature-film
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/836643438/the-commonwealth-over-and-out-music-video
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903394656/flag-football-a-documentary-about-gay-bowl-x-and-t-0
http://www.indiegogo.com/jerusalem
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1313570620/how-to-lose-your-virginity-help-our-documentary-go

Please share your success stories with me!

]]> http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/crowdfunding-kickstarter-how-to-with-a-nod-to-indiegogo/feed/ 0 Every Day Kickstarter Campaign Finished! http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/every-day-kickstarter-campaign-finished/ http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/every-day-kickstarter-campaign-finished/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:58:46 +0000 admin http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/?p=35 Every Day Is a Holiday received $11,445 in pledges from the Kickstarter campaign, which ended recently. Thanks so much for your generous support.

There is still time to donate to our overall campaign via our Support and Donate page. Help us unlock the matching funds from ITVS!

]]> http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/every-day-kickstarter-campaign-finished/feed/ 0 Every Day Kickstarter Campaign Launched! http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/every-day-kickstarter-campaign-launched/ http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/every-day-kickstarter-campaign-launched/#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:49:12 +0000 admin http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/?p=34 The palindrome has been vanquished!

As you know, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) has green-lit our film and will provide $79,000 towards the completion of the film if we can raise the revised number of $34,496. A big, big thank you to donors who provided an end-of-year push.

Now, we will be raising some of these funds through a crowd-sourcing web site called KICKSTARTER.

Help us meet the challenge! And score tickets to the premiere, an exclusive interview from the director, your name in the credits, and more!

And a big thanks to Annie Li! Annie is a student at Harvard and participated in this year’s January Experience program, since Harvard now has exams prior to winter break. She was instrumental in the launch of the Kickstarter campaign. Annie also created a documentary about the effects of the earthquake in Sichuan, China. Laura Wu is also helping with the campaign; I’ll introduce her in a later post.

]]> http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/every-day-kickstarter-campaign-launched/feed/ 12 Every Day – Greenlit! Help Me Match the Challenge. http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/greenlit-by-itvs-lincs/ http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/greenlit-by-itvs-lincs/#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:57:18 +0000 admin http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/?p=32 I would like to share with you some great news about the film.

“Every Day Is a Holiday” has been greenlit by public television through the Independent Television Service (ITVS)! Once I raise $38,313, ITVS will provide an additional $79,120 towards completion of the film.

Please support my effort with a tax-deductible year-end gift.

As of today, I have $36,763 to go. As much as I like palindromes, make this one go away!

Please visit the Support and Donate and follow the instructions on that page.

Thank you for your support.

]]> http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/greenlit-by-itvs-lincs/feed/ 0 Rough Cut Screening of Every Day Is a Holiday http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/rough-cut-screening-of-every-day-is-a-holiday/ http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/rough-cut-screening-of-every-day-is-a-holiday/#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:45:31 +0000 admin http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/?p=30 Every Day Is a Holiday - rough cut

I am showing a rough cut at the Chen Dance Center on Dec. 28, 2010. Optional dinner in Chinatown afterward at Old Sichuan; other possible activities include a visit to Apotheke or Winnie’s. Please do stop by if you can. Otherwise, here’s to a happy, healthy and prosperous 2011!


Tuesday, December 28, 2010 

Reception at 6:30pm 

Screening starts at 7:00pm (one hour)

Q&A following screening
Venue: 
Chen Dance Center 
70 Mulberry St, 2nd Floor 
New York, NY 10013
Admission: 
Free to the public; suggested donation 

Please RSVP by calling (212) 349-0126
“Every Day Is a Holiday” is made possible with generous assistance from the Chen Dance Center and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund.

]]> http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/rough-cut-screening-of-every-day-is-a-holiday/feed/ 1 It’s a Small World http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/its-a-small-world/ http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/its-a-small-world/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:22:41 +0000 admin http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/?p=29 I attended an art opening of “Drill Baby Drill” at gowanusedge.com on Thursday for Dan Ford and other artists in a group show.  One of the other artists was named Emily Auchincloss. I wasn’t going to ask her, but then decided, why not? It turns out that Emily is the great-granddaughter of Congressman Auchincloss, the man who sponsored a bill so that my dad could become a U.S. citizen. She had no idea her great-grandfather would do something like that.

It really is a small world. Many thanks to Christine Chen, who introduced me to Jocelyn Ford, who introduced me to Dan, and that’s how I met Emily. I was just working on an extended trailer that talks about Congressman Auchincloss.

]]> http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/its-a-small-world/feed/ 0 What I Did on My Summer Vacation – Chicken Fat Music Video http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation-chicken-fat-music-video/ http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation-chicken-fat-music-video/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:33:07 +0000 admin http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/?p=26 When not working on documentaries, talking bears, and digital media, I think up quirky projects. One of my latest projects is creating a music video, set to a song I heard in Phys Ed class called “Chicken Fat.” I adapted the song into a two-minute version, collaborating with artists from The FilmShop, as well as my new friend Katrina Gregorius. Hope you like it!

Also known as “The Youth Fitness Song,” “Chicken Fat” was composed by Meredith Willson and sung by Robert Preston for President Kennedy’s Physical Fitness Program. Recordings of this song were sent to school districts throughout the United States to accompany the official U.S. Physical Fitness program of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.

Thank you, Director,Vinti Bhatnagar; Editor, Graham Meriwether; Puppeteer and Editor, Kate Cook; Archival Editor, Sally O’Grady; Actor, CK; Animator, Katrina Gregorius. Thanks to: Shelldon the Tortoise, Geoff Green, Archive.org

]]> http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation-chicken-fat-music-video/feed/ 1 Recap of HBO Documentary Films’ Sheila Nevins Chat with Tribeca’s Geoffrey Gilmore http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/recap-of-hbo-documentary-films-sheila-nevins-chat-with-tribecas-geoffrey-gilmore/ http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/recap-of-hbo-documentary-films-sheila-nevins-chat-with-tribecas-geoffrey-gilmore/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:02:55 +0000 admin http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/?p=23 The Force Behind HBO’s Documentaries.]]> It was a busy June and has been an even busier July, but I wanted to share some notes from a conversation between Sheila Nevins and Geoffrey Gilmore. The discussion happened on April 25 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival.

Geoffrey noted that Sheila has been called the “Medici of TV” or the “Dominatrix of Docs.” She used to work at NY’s Channel 13 and has a theater background. She likes to see TV as theater, and says, “Curtains Up!” when she turns on the TV. Sheila mentioned that she gets bored easily, which she repeated in a recent article in the NYTimes called, “The Force Behind HBO’s Documentaries.”

HBO Documentary Film Stats:
Acquire – about 15%
Produce in-house – about 70%
Finishing funds – about 15%

Sheila said that if your film (she calls them “docus”) could be on free tv, HBO won’t take it. I would like to know if other people agree.

Here’s how HBO rates its programs in order of importance:
1 Movies
2 Series
3 HBO movies
4 Sports Docs
5 Fights
6 Docs

If you send your work to HBO, they should get back to you within four weeks. Sheila suggested contacting her associate, Lisa Heller, VP of Documentary Programming, at extension 5303.

Another fact about Sheila:
Sheila Nevins participates in a web site called Women on the Web . There are other high-powered women “of a certain age” who write for the site regularly, including Liz Smith, Whoopi Goldberg and Joan Ganz Cooney. Sheila said that the site is like a hobby, “like needlepoint.” I think (and hope) wowOwow will evolve, especially since I received an online questionnaire asking me what I liked about the site and if I would be ok with a wowOwow online store.

]]> http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/recap-of-hbo-documentary-films-sheila-nevins-chat-with-tribecas-geoffrey-gilmore/feed/ 10 Busy June for Every Day Is a Holiday http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/busy-june-for-every-day-is-a-holiday/ http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/busy-june-for-every-day-is-a-holiday/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:46:24 +0000 admin http://www.everydayisaholiday.org/?p=21
  • - I have been working with my composer, Samantha Sutton, on creating a score for the film. I am very excited by her work.

  • - As you can see, I have relaunched the film’s website. Many thanks to Jacqueline Yue and Doug McLellan for their time and effort. Please let me know what you think of the new site!

  • - I screened part of my work-in-progress at the FilmShop and received some valuable feedback.

  • - I attended a really great panel at Women Make Movies with Caroline Libresco and Debbie Zimmerman about the Sundance Film Festival. More in a separate post.

  • - I am working on grant proposals!

  • - I missed “Kevorkian,” the last film of Stranger Than Fiction’s spring series.
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