We received an email today from Brian Truglio, an LRC visitor, with a worthy cause. He's producing a film for public television on a cross country rivalry between two Native-American high schools and needs the help of the LRC community to get the project funded. His email is self explanatory and appears below.See film trailer here: http://www.nativetelecom.org/racing_the_rezKickstarter page here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1808230198/racing-the-rez-a-documentary
Brian Truglio wrote:
Hi Weldon and Robert,
I am a frequent visitor and fan of LetsRun.com as well as a runner myself and independent filmmaker. After reading your guidelines, I wanted to check first about posting information on my documentary, Racing the Rez, and its Kickstarter fundraising campaign.
Racing the Rez follows Navajo and Hopi cross-country runners from two rival high schools in Northern Arizona as they put it all on the line for tribal pride, triumph over personal adversity, and state championship glory. I'm raising money to finish the film on Kickstarter.com (www.kickstarter.com) and have seven days left to raise $5,000. The film has been picked up by distributor American Public Television for broadcast on public TV stations across the country in late 2012 and has received partial funding from Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT).
I'd like to post a message, possibly more, talking about the film and fundraiser and providing a link to the Kickstarter site. Please let me know if that is acceptable according to your guidelines.
Here are additional links if you need them:
Kickstarter Page [www.kickstarter.com/projects/1808230198/racing-the-rez-a-documentary]
Racing the Rez Facebook [facebook.com/RacingTheRez]
Racing the Rez Trailer on NAPT [nativetelecom.org/racing_the_rez]
Thank you very much for your time and kind consideration.
Brian Truglio
Support my documentary on Kickstarter
Brian will be monitoring this thread and will be able to post below and provide more details or answer any questions that people have.