2 weeks to gogo!!

Our grassroots fundraising campaign at indiegogo.com/educate-me is only 2 weeks away from completion!

Visit indiegogo.com/educate-me - to watch the trailer and other little clips we've posted! We will continue to post a few more updates and clips over the last two weeks of the campaign.

We need you to spread the word!! Be sure to 'like' it and 'share' it with your network of friends and family! (if you've already shared - thank you! - and please share again!)
Online keeners please 'join' the facebook group and 'tweet' away! Help us show there is an audience for a documentary exploring the privatization of our public education system!

We know there are way too many things to contribute towards these days (cancer research, environmental protection, disaster relief efforts, homelessness & poverty...) and if you're a parent you probably have fundraising of your own to do to cover something important for your school as well. But if you do have the means to spare any amount to our production, please take advantage of one our great VIP Perks by making a contribution today! T-shirts, signed DVD's, film credits and private screenings - what kind of perk would you like for your donation? ; )

Gratitude for all of you who choose to support our "Educate Me!?" project in whatever ways you can.

on with production

When I came up with the idea for this documentary a few years back, I really had no idea what making a film actually entails. Among the many things I've learned on the fly I have found that the creative process is hard to rush and there are always setbacks to work through. And trying to fund a project as a first time filmmaker is near impossible. So much competition with highly qualified experts who also have amazing ideas to develop...and not enough grants or other funds to cover even a small percentage of them thanks to continued budget cuts to arts and culture in Canada.

So I have plugged away at this, grateful for the help of friends with enough experience to guide me to each next step I need to climb. The learning curve has been steep and at times overwhelming while juggling family, friends, 3 part time jobs, a few volunteer hats and other distracting ups and downs life throws our way. Well, the volunteer hats have fallen off as I want to be effective when I give my time and I wasn't anymore. But that gave me the energy I need to put all my extra time into finally getting this project done!

I'm lucky to have pulled together a team (Jessica, Cindy and David) that provides me with great motivation and the combined skills to do this in a professional way - could not do this on my own!! We now have a production schedule that continues to fill with interviews and other filming and things to do that will keep us busy for the next few of months, and with much gratitude to the first bunch of donations we can even pay for some equipment rental to do things right...at least for a few days!

With only 3 weeks left of the indiegogo.com/educate-me campaign we're still a long way from our fundraising goals at this point, but it sure feels good that it has continued to spread a little further every week and awareness of the project is growing. If you haven't shared it with your networks yet - please do so now! :)

To entice you to visit the indiegogo.com/educate-me page (and to return for another look if you've seen it already) I have posted a few video clips of random things we thought worth sharing in the Gallery, and we'll continue to add more clips through the final weeks of the campaign. Let me know what you think.

the trailer is a gogo!

After two weeks of editing footage I've collected over the past couple of years, I finally have a rough cut trailer to share. Hope you all enjoy my editing debut, with many thanks to all of my Saucy Side team for their direction and support along the way, and all the people who have participated so far!

We still have many interviews and other things to capture on film before we actually create the theatrical trailer to showcase the full documentary once its closer to completion.

In the mean time, I will use the rest of the footage I have to add little clips of interest to continue to attract attention to our indiegogo.com/educate-me fundraising campaign page and help us reach our production goals!

I'm full of gratitude to the folks who were first to make contributions towards our project by taking advantage of our VIP perks! Every little bit makes a difference! Can't wait to do a private screening for any people or groups that donate $1000 or more (nudge, nudge to all you groups with some room in your budgets to contribute to a doc like this!).
Remember the campaign ends on March 15th so enjoy the VIP Perks while you can and donate today!

Also crazy thankful for all my friends who have spread the word: 'liked' and 'shared' the campaign with their networks thru email, facebook (join the group!) and by posting on their sites, as well as chatting the doc up with people they see day-to-day...all of these efforts mean the world to me ♥

The money is crucial to helping us get this done as an independent project, but its also a big help to simply show their is an audience for a film that explores the impacts of privatization on our education system in Canada.

I would love your feedback if you have thoughts to share about the trailer, or the project in general. Send me a note kathy@educate-me.ca