We have great news! About a Donkey will be premiering as one of 5 feature films at the Georgia Film Festival on Saturday, May 19th, at 2:30pm! We're super excited to be screening the film in the South, particularly because our mission with the film is to create conversation and build some bridges towards acceptance. We could use help spreading the word to locals, so if anyone knows people in the Oakwood/Atlanta area, please let us know!
About A Donkey
Official About a Donkey poster!
Today marks the anniversary of wrapping production of our 2nd feature film, About a Donkey! To celebrate, we reveal our official poster design!
Created by Sean Mannion of 4milecircus.
A new way to Watch!
We have a lot of our content (a feature, a web series, a dozen shorts) released publicly now. Maybe you want to check it all out but can't decide what to watch and in what order? Our site features projects in production order. But we recently curated our Vimeo channel albums to be by theme! So now you can find exactly what you're in the mood for quickly & easily via our content!
Check it out! We'll be building this search-ability into our site next.
About a Donkey: Cast, Crew, Supporter Screening
Saturday was the one year anniversary of starting principal photography for About a Donkey, AND it was our unofficial premiere of the film. We rented the beautiful Anthology Film Archives' 187-seat theater for our cast & crew screening. Seed&Spark supporters who originally contributed $100 got an automatic invite as part of their campaign incentive; and we decided, since we had such a large theater rented and so many friends and family eager to see the film, it'd be a great idea to offer limited tickets to cover the cost of the theater. We didn't advertise to the public, so as to not blow our premiere status, but we offered tickets to family and core supporters. We ended up with 96 total people in attendance and ended up making $764, just over enough to cover our $740 theater rental!
As for the screening itself, it was a success! The audience seemed to really enjoy the film. It looked absolutely beautiful on the big screen. It got laughs at spots we were hoping; and we were so humbled to hear about how certain moments, and especially the ending, made people emotional. We set out to make a timely but hopeful piece about working towards acceptance. It was so lovely hearing comments about how it resonated with people who didn't know what to expect from the film.
Hearing it in a theater setting was a big help and made us realize we need to revisit our audio cleaning and levels a bit to better balance tracks for such a wide space. We'll be doing that over the next week or so. And we'll be submitting to festivals and crossing our fingers. We can't wait to share it again in more theaters and with more audiences!
Thanks everyone who made getting here possible!
About a Donkey is finished! (Seed&Spark Update)
One year ago today, we launched our campaign for this film! And today is the day we finished it! It's been nine months since we wrapped principal photography, and post-production is officially done! We did it! We made a movie! Thank you, we couldn't have done it without all of you, our cast, and our crew!
To celebrate, we put together a sneak peek of a scene below that shows what post-production entails!
Post Credits: Editing: Matt Gershowitz, Color Grading: Anna Marie Nguyen, Sound Mix & Design: Sean Mannion (Foley: Frank Huang), Musical Score: Alexandra Kalinowski
Also, we're having a cast and crew screening at Anthology Film Archives on March 10th. Anyone who contributed $100 or more received a free invite. (Please let us know if you didn't get this email.) For anyone local who wants to see the film before private links are sent out next year, you can purchase an exclusive ticket for $12 here: http://www.congestedcat.com/about-a-donkey-premiere. We have 100 seats available and are hoping to sell enough tickets to cover the cost of renting the theater. Hope you can join us!
For anyone not local, we hope to have a festival screening near YOU sometime this year. Stay tuned for that festival news!
Thanks again for everything!
-Christina, Kelsey & the team