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.