We’re back! And before mentioning the trip I’d like to send out a belated thank you to Nathan Groth, Juan Edwards, Myriam Garcia, Corina Aleman, Bill Stott and Alan Devenish for their donations while we were gone.
The total is now up to $1,890, THANK YOU!
What a trip. Will Sherman and I just returned this morning […]
…from computers, and the Internet, begins as soon as I finish this blog post.
In less than an hour The Chacabuco Project embarks on phase II: production. In an hour we will stop by Santiago’s place, give him the plane tickets, and then hop on the overnight bus to Antofagasta at 9pm ET.
But even though we […]
Thanks to Tom Marshall, Katie and Brian Hoeber, Raffaele Timarchi, Sheiva Rezvani and Sam Coble for their donations! We’ve soared right past the production cost goal of $1,580 with a total received of $1,750!
THANK YOU to all who have donated and helped in anyway by spreading the word of the existence of this project! We’re […]
Thanks to the recent donations of Jessica, Luis and Diego Aguilera-Steinert and George and Kim Gonsalves we are now at $1,485 in donations! We are only $95 from our goal of $1,580 (we past the old goal of $1,368 effortlessly). This means we are $95 from flying Roland and Santiago (the two concentration camp survivors) […]
Thank you Alan Alvarez, John Chandler, Lorraine Yglesias, Michael Rossman, Rona Eisner, Nadia Roberts and Jack Hirschman for your donations! Thanks to your support we have now closed the production costs for making the documentary. This means we just need to pay for the transportation costs of Rolando Carrasco and Santiago Cavieres (the two men […]
Thank you Elan Kamesar, Devin Atallah, Alissa Waddell, and Chrissie Lam for your generous donations! You have helped the funds reach the new total of $1,085! This means we are only $283 away from the old total of $1,368 and $495 from the new total of $1,580 (see details below)! Food and lodging are now […]
It’s amazing what can happen when you set your mind to something. The Chacabuco Project. It’s just a camera a few rolls of DV tape and film, and an intention. But the incredible things that unveil themselves before this intention.
Last Friday morning we sat down for about three hours with Rolando Carrasco and Santiago Cavieres, […]
Thank you Melinda Powers, Ephraim Freed, Reem Rifai, Gabriela Aguilera, Anthony Fontes, Xanthe Swift, Annie Sherman and Terese & Malia Atallah! Your donations and pledges have brought us to a new grand total of USD $885!
We passed the halfway mark and are now moving into the last 3rd of the total donation pot! Thanks to […]
Ever since my article about recent ex-Pinochet concentration camp survivor interviews for Chacabuco, The Desert’s Skin got published in Saturday’s issue of The Santiago Times, donations have been pouring in…relatively speaking. Thanks guys!
And I promise, I’m gonna update that Big Red Thermometer soon. I’ve just been a major slacker. I think we’re at $555 now. […]
…to the press. (Still got some more fundraising to do
Apparently, though, our project is interesting enough for The Santiago Times to make us a lead cultural story for this Saturday. Good call, guys. You can check it out here
In the meantime, we’ve got more interviews scheduled with former Chacabuco prisoners here in Santiago. Then, […]