Crawford

So, my friend David Modigliani has made a terrific documentary about the residents of a small town in Texas by the name of Crawford. Crawford, TX is not the town that many people assumed (ie, it's not just the bike-riding, brush-clearing, summit-hosting vacation home of our soon-to-be-former President).

Crawford has been accepted into the South by Southwest Film Festival (SxSW) and it needs a little help. Because the film features footage from television newsreels, they must raise some money to keep this original (and essential) footage in the film. In truth, I feel like my introduction is sort of a ramble, when I am posting with a real purpose. I will leave the details to Modig:

It's been great news for CRAWFORD -- first we got into SxSW, then we were given 3 screenings, all at the Paramount -- the 1300-seat Theater downtown.

Check out the trailer:


Exciting stuff. Been working 18 hrs. a day to knock out the final cut -- bringing the project from standard def. back into HD (which we shot it in) for the big screen, mixing audio at a professional studio for the 5-1 speakers in theaters, and - this has been the hardest - licensing about 7 minutes of archival news footage at $80/sec. The networks nail you on that.

I'm really proud of the movie and this is the final push -- we give SxSW the master on March 1. We need to raise $50K and we've raised $38K. Getting close. A contribution (tax-deductible) would be a huge boost. You can contribute online -- here or you can write a check to Refraction Arts with "Crawford" on the memo line and send it to me at:

Crawford Movie
1312 Willow St.
Austin, TX 78702

It looks like we'll have a chance to screen the film in NYC this summer.

So please give if you can. It's really important to support independent filmmakers, particularly a filmmaker like David who has really captured an amazing story. Give if you can!