It has been 6 months since I posted here about anything to do with the documentary. The truth is, I haven't had much to update that was uplifting. My plan to create mini-documentaries has been counterproductive with the footage from Beltane on the Beach being rather limited, little time in my schedule to fit in interviews of the organizers and Druid College on nearly every weekend that the TotFD had their monthly meetings made it exceedingly difficult to actually engage in a manner that allowed filming.
Add to that complications with my own personal finances falling short of expectations at this point in time, I've had little money to put into the equipment I want to make the project shine. However, I need to be realistic about how likely it is that I can do a community fundraising effort that will net $5,000 for this project. Nobody I know in our community has a lot of money to give away and I have seen a number of crowd sourcing efforts for other projects fail or be near misses for much less. That said though, the show must be filmed in order to go on and so I still intend to film, albeit with limited resources.
It may mean that I can't be at every event I had planned on attending or traveling quite as far and as wide as I had originally intended but I have a year and a day of filming ahead of me and public Pagan events don't happen every single day. I have a camera, a nice camera and a few other tricks at my disposal. I don't expect this film to go up on every screen in America, if I can send out a thousand DVD's of it to interested people, I would be happier.
I will probably begin a kickstarter or gofundme.com campaign on October 31st, 2014 just to see if I can supplement my fuel bill as travel is likely to be costly. I may be looking for people to hold camera's, microphones, give me a couch to crash on if I am in the area, a hot meal on my way through town, etc. That, honestly, is better charity for this project than a $20 bill in most cases. If anything, a crowd funding effort will be to reimburse me for travel expenses and the few pieces of equipment I may end up needing to get this done. I will also be purchasing a membership with Vimeo.com which will allow me to upload my film(s) to a High-def online streaming video source so that all can see them. I have never intended to make a profit on this in any way.
As for the other, smaller projects, they are still underway. If I combine the 2013 and 2014 footage I took of Beltane on the Beach, I have plenty, I just need some interviews. The TotFD is more open to me now that I am in my Ovate year of Druid College where I am not travelling South every 6 weeks. So, stay tuned for those.
As always, please feel free to contact me to donate time or services, ask questions, lend support in the form of written encouragement or for any other reason. The email address is:
wheeloftheyearinmaine@gmail.com
