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UPDATE:: My goal amount has been made however you can still donate. Any further amounts donated will go towards equipment, and a party afterward for everyone who pledged into that plus advertising for the film. Keep it going and lets make this campaign a legend about the Chelsea too!
*Editors note: Anyone who pledged before, the filming is still on going however over Xmas break I will be filming Dec 21st - Jan 5th non stop and over that time sending out cards and such that didn't require the finished product. Thank you all so very much. I also apologize for not allowing paypal or amazon payments, sadly they make it little to impossible for me to collect the funds due to the fact I'm an alt model online and it breaks their TOS*
As you may have noticed, I have a similar campaign running right
now called "Saving the legends of the Chelsea Hotel & becoming one
myself"; however I cannot change the amount required to make my goal. I
have am starting a new project with the same design. A few things have
changed.
I have steadily worked on ideas & understanding the truth
in how long this is going to take me to do this. Im no longer scared
& realized Im more than qualified to do this. Ive had the chance
to explore different areas of film making over the last few months.
Having been behind the camera, choreographing, writing story boards and
lastly scripts. I am ready. I feel assured. The Chelsea Hotel is home
for me. Ive never walked in anywhere and have been greeted with both
attitude & enjoyment. I wouldnt have it any other way either.
The residents of the Chelsea have the real stories and my goal is to
give them each a a camera to film their day to day life for 3 days.
During this time I will film & up date with my camera my day to day
life as I become an actress, as a more established model past
her prime. Im also going to be showing the side of me Ive hid
most of my life.
HollyWood is fixated up on the tragedies & the stars but
what about the people who sit behind the scenes: painting, writing &
living? They ARE the legends & what makes
the Chelsea the building (dare I just call it that?), in which it is
today.
HollyWood tends to just skip over the residents within the hotel
unless famous or as I feel, intrudes upon the ones
that are chose to speak about their life. I want everyone to be
themselves and to express their anger, their love & most importantly
Id love to know their uniqueness on why they remain at the Chelsea.
Most importantly I want to know their personality and their art(s).
Im a single mother of two sons. We are are all 3 heavily
involved in creating this film together as it speaks to our hearts. The
hotel, the famous artists that have written and sang from there, have
been apart of our family time spent and many memories created. In a
sense Im preserving our memories but also with this film creating a new
one, one that will out live us. Above and beyond creating this film, I
want my sons to have the chance to stay there as adults. I want them to
have a chance (as well as their generation) to write, sing and live out
their artistic desires. Im frightened that one day this wont happen,
not just for them but also for their generation and the generations
after them. That the hotel will be gone because the city will turn it
into some horrid tourist attraction or just something people look at as
just a relic and not a place designed to still allow artists to go to.
Ive decided to wait till August so that both children can fly
with me to the Chelsea and be apart of the film. I want us to be apart
of history together.
Im creating this film out of the kindness of my heart &
soul (the way a film should be created), the passion is to drawl
attention to those whove forgotten it exists & that you can still
become a legend for the right reasons.
My "legend" worthy performances are set and aligned up. I have
auditions, modeling shoots and most importantly the overwhelming support
from the community in doing this.
Thank you for your time, and I hope youll participate. I would ramble further but theres a character limit & I have a blog
