Essay in NyArtsMagazine today!

Woke up today and found out this wonderful nugget of happiness was sitting on the NyArtsMagazine website. What a wonderful way to begin your day. ;-) An awesome push for the documentary. Keep on getting it out there, and thanks to all that made it happen. Definitely including all the wonderful donors.


http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/curated/documentary-painting-and-beyond

Almost 1K in the first week.

Thanks to all the people who have donated for the film project so far. Got almost to $1000 right now. 44 more days to go to get to $15,000. So I am definitely in need of help from all my friends who wanna see this film get made. Many emails have been sent to news outlets through the last week and I'm ready to send out more. There is so much to do, and I'm hoping that with your help, and your friends help, and their friends...we'll all together be able to revel in the fact that you and yours helped bring this film to fruition.

We don't want these stories to go untold. History needs documentaries like this.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/105716108/untitled-conversations-on-art-1970-2012-documentar

Thanks for your help.

Jeffrey

Kickstarter Campaign is LIVE!!!

I have finally gotten the project ready for this phase of the film. I am very proud of what I have accomplished so far, and need your help to get to the next phase till the finish. You can really grasp all I have been working on and all the time I have been desiring to do this documentary.

Have a look...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/105716108/untitled-conversations-on-art-1970-2012-documentar

And THANKS for your help.

Jeffrey

Camera Rig.

I welcome you to see the camera rig I have built with the help of the Frugal Filmmaker and his ingenious designs to help filmmakers save money. It's all built to be able to break down and be easier to carry. As I had to carry my first version all around New York when I was there in November 2011 shooting interviews for my documentary. This one is a bit more streamlined and easygoing. As you can see it has a place to rest your shoulder, along with the ability to use it as a shoulder rig, or you can break it down and use it more as a handheld rig. Everything you see that is in the last photo is all glued together with PVC glue and can easily be put together or taken apart for travel.

A little help goes a long way

As you might know. I've been working on this film for over a year now. Most of it was time spent planning, getting in touch with people, learning about the equipment I had. Well recently I got to make my first big push to NYC to film a number of the participants in this film, and through a number of donations was able to do all of that. So I thank all of you who donated.

I know i'm not asking for much here. If you have $5.00 you'd like to help out with, or $500...either way it's an awesome gesture of support and enjoyment on my part. I'm going to be putting the project up on a website called Kickstarter soon to try to reach my full funding goal, but I'll always have the links to the right of the page on at all times.

In the meantime, or if you know you'd rather me get your donation right away, instead of waiting two months. Just click any of the donation boxes and your funds will be generously donated right to me and will only go for travel and film expenses.

I will have a trailer of the film online in a few weeks. I'm waiting till the Kickstarter project goes live to let everyone see it from there.

Thank you all for your support and caring.
Jeffrey Collins

Clip of Curator Klaus Kertess...

Clip of Curator Karen Wilkin speaking about Jules Olitski.