Tag: Seed&Spark

Penina Finger

January, we hardly knew ye

At the beginning of the year, I posted a lovely blog update that looked back at the progress we made in 2018, and mapped out the road ahead for 2019 (and beyond!). And for the most part, we’re sort-of on schedule, give or take a few weeks. The interview transcripts and last principal interviews are being done…
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Funded

Our 30 days are up! The Parkway of Broken Dreams crowdfunding campaign ended Oct. 17 having reached 90% of its goal–a total of $13,609 contributed by 166 amazing people. Even though we surpassed 80% and got the Green Light, we did not get enough followers to qualify as a finalist in the Hometown Heroes rally.…
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Photo: Leila Navidi

News of the week(ly)

Hey, check it out: The Las Vegas Weekly wrote a little blurb about our crowdfunding project (image above by Leila Navidi from that article). Cool, right? Seems appropriate, given Parkway of Broken Dreams is based on an article I wrote for that fine publication about 12 years ago. We’re now four days into our crowdfunding…
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Seed&Spark video preview

Seed&Spark crowdfunding campaign is now live!

This is it, folks! The official PARKWAY OF BROKEN DREAMS crowdfunding campaign is now LIVE on the film funding/distribution platform Seed&Spark. We have 30 days to raise at least $12,000 and gain 1,000 followers. No problem, right? Why 1,000 followers? Because PARKWAY OF BROKEN DREAMS is participating in Seed&Spark’s Hometown Heroes rally, in which hometown-centered…
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San Antonio Museum of Art

Crowdfunding? More like anxietyfunding

So, I had just come back from a four-day expedition to Las Vegas, where I was filming interviews for this documentary (or trying; one fell through) and being interviewed by my alma mater (UNLV, ‘natch). It was Wednesday evening, and I had until 11:59 p.m. Friday to finish building a crowdfunding campaign for Parkway of…
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