Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:01:20 +0530 Subject: Fwd: Crowdfunding for "Abotani" the short animation film from Arunachal Pradesh From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Dear Rini, I trust you are well. I would like to ask for your help now with raising the funding for the short animation film from Arunachal Pradesh, “Abotani”. Please see this crowdfunding pitch with Kickstarter. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/340816312/abotani-a-short-animation-film-from-arunachal-prad It is a website where you set a target amount and make the pitch and then receive donations towards that target. It is a secure site, and it is very easy to donate, there is a button on the main page to “support this project”. There are even some rewards offered. The pitch continues for just 15 days more. If we do not achieve the target, we get nothing, nor do the donors lose anything. The funding will make it possible to go into the next stage of the project – that of making a short animated folktale from Arunachal Pradesh using the technique of stop-motion animation. This work would be done by non commercial animators with help from young artists from Arunachal Pradesh (some of those from the workshop held in January 2013). The Adivasi Arts Trust organised a very successful and well received event recently in London, at the Nehru Centre on 6th August to celebrate the Art and Culture of Northeast India, and this included a very rich and interesting presentation about the animation project from Arunachal Pradesh, by Jonathan Marchant, who is a volunteer animator from England. Jonathan is already going ahead and making the main characters as stop motion models. These models will have to be to a high standard and well made to withstand the handling that is required in animation. It is hoped that the animation will take place in India when all the models are ready. Please see this link here for his daily progress with the model making: http://www.abotani-production-diary.blogspot.in The short film “Abotani” will be a part of the half hour long collection “Tales of the Tribes”. In this collection, the other films are in production. Each film features designs inspired by the indigenous artworks of each community represented. The collection will be dubbed into several indigenous languages as well as Hindi and English, and they will be screened back to the communities where the stories originate, as well as on Doordarshan channel and on MG Alba (Scotland). They will also be screened in the United Kingdom in schools and Asian cultural centres. We need financial supporters to donate to the crowd funding pitch so that the target can be achieved within the deadline and we can move ahead and complete the animation film. Sponsors will be acknowledged, and will receive credits on the film. I would be very grateful if you could work to help us achieve this by recommending it for sponsorship to your contacts. Thanking you very much, From Tara _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
