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ABOUT
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This is the story of a boy growing up in southern Spain during the Franco years—a boy from a poor gitano (Gypsy) family whose release from a harsh life was his love of the flamenco singing that was his heritage—that, and his own growing talents as a singer. We tell his story, then leave him as he becomes a teenager: a teenager already singing professionally. But by that time as well, he’d had to drop out of school, ensuring that his only real career opportunity would be as a fl ... (read more)
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ABOUT
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This is the story of a boy growing up in southern Spain during the Franco years—a boy from a poor gitano (Gypsy) family whose release from a harsh life was his love of the flamenco singing that was his heritage—that, and his own growing talents as a singer. We tell his story, then leave him as he becomes a teenager: a teenager already singing professionally. But by that time as well, he’d had to drop out of school, ensuring that his only real career opportunity would be as a flamenco singer, a cantaor.
We’re treated to some great singing in this show. And you can be sure we’re providing an authentic, inside view.
In addition to the singing (cante), the show treats us to vistas of the southern Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera and stories from Antonio’s childhood and youth using actors in period costumes. His life is part and parcel of the Spain of his era, especially the Spain of gitanos—it also has its special characteristics.
We see his parents working as farm laborers—and who erupt into a flamenco fiesta when there’s the break for lunch. We see Antonio as a 3-4 year old child trying to imitate the great flamenco singers as he sits on the doorstep of his home. We see him cross the ancient city of Jerez with his mother, on their way to the market. Then there;re the children’s games, his first forays into the professional world of flamenco singing—and the beautiful night with the full moon rising over the house his parents built, as he and his 5 sibling prepare to sleep.
Finally, there’s the story of the story of the chocolate—that sweet the tasting of which led to such disastrous consequences
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WHAT MAKES THIS PROJECT DIFFERENT
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Our project is unique because it's about famous flamenco singer, Antonio de la Malena; because it's a story about gitanos (Gypsies) told from the inside (Antonio, a gitano, is co-writer, and co-producer/director); and because it shows what it was like to grow up poor in Franco's Spain.
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TEAM
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EveAMa
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Co-producer, co-director and co-writer with Antonio de la Malena. We conceived of this show through a deep love of flamenco. We're looking at a world that's disappearing--a gitano (Gypsy) world and gitano form of life out of which flamenco grew. We see Franco's Spain from a personal point of view. And we see why Antonio sings the way he does.
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Antonio-Malena
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Co-director, co-producer and co-script writer. In addition to extensive experience as a stage performer (flamenco cantaor), Antonio de la Malena has directed numerous stage productions in both the United States and in Spain. He recently released his first video short, and has also acted as camera person and sound tech for video productions.
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| VIP PERKS |
| $25 or more = Web site recognition |
| Your name to appear permanently on our web site´s THANKS page. Su nombre lo colocamos por nuestra pagain web. |
| 5 Claimed |
| $50 or more = CD OR note cards |
| Antonio de la Malena's CD "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo," OR a pack of 12 note cards with original design by Eve A. Ma and Antonio de la Malena. Un CD de Antonio de la Malena ("Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo") O cartas postales con diseno orginal creado por Eva Ma y Antonio de la Malena. |
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| $100 or more = CD AND note cards |
| Antonio de la Malena´s CD, "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo," AND a pack of 12 note cards with original design by Eve A. Ma and Antonio de la Malena. ALONG WITH recognition on the THANKS page of our web site. CD de Antonio de la Malena "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo" y TAMBIEN cartas postales con diseno original creado por Eva Ma y Antonio de la Malena. |
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| $250 or more = DVD |
| Any DVD listed on our web site (www.PalominoPro.com). Que elige un DVD (cualquier) de nuestra pagina web (www.PalominoPro.com). |
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| $500 or more = Thanked in show's credits |
| Your name in the show´s credits. Su nombre colocado en los titulos de credito de la pelicula. |
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| $1,000 or more = Thanked=credits, LOGO=web site |
| Your name in the show's credits and your LOGO on the web site. Su nombre en los titulos de credito y su sello-logo colocado por nuestra pagain web. |
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| HOW THESE FUNDS WILL BE USED |
| Finish work on the show's web site--note that the web site appears in two languages (English & Spanish). Desarrollar la pagina web. (A NOTAR--la pagina se ve en dos idiomas--ingles y espanol). |
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EveAMa referred someone
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(3 months ago)
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EveAMa posted an announcement
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(3 months ago)
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Last week, just before I left Spain for California, we videotaped some very visually rich material for the section where the small boy goes with his mother to the traditional market. We also inserted a section of a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca that we´ve long wanted to put into an appropriate place in the show (“Oh city of the Gypsies, who has seen you and doesn´t remember you…”) as well as some cante of Antonio de la Malena and some solo guitar as background music.
La semana pasada, poco antes que me marché de Jerez para volver a California, hemos grabado algunas escenas preciosas para la sección en que el niño con su madre entran en el mercado central de los abastos. También hemos puesto una parte de un poema de Federico García Lorca dentro del video (“O ciudad de los gitanos, quien te vio y no te recuerda…”) tanto como cante de Antonio de la Malena y guitarra sola como música de fondo. |
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EveAMa posted an announcement
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I just added two photos of a scene we shot today in the countryside. It looked like it would rain but it didn´t. Acabo de colocar dos fotos nuevas. Pensé en mirando al cielo que va llover pero no lo ha hecho y entonces, hemos podido grabar. |
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EveAMa added a new image
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Co-directors at work. Co-directores grabando.
Here are the co-directors, Eve A. Ma and Antonio de la Malena, in the scene we shot today in the countryside. Aquí nosotros, los co-directores (Antonio de la Malena y Eva Ma) en el campo por la grabacción que hemos realizado hoy mismo.
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EveAMa added a new image
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Shooting a pick-up scene. Grabando por la nea.
Here we are shooting a scene in the countryside. This is a pick-up scene to supplement something shot earlier that we decided needed MORE. Aqui estamos en el campo, grabando otro material para la escena en que el padre corta la nea con un compañero para llevarlo a casa, dónde la madre hace sillas de nea.
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EveAMa posted an announcement
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(5 months ago)
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Yes, we are working on this show. We have a lot of polishing to do on the material we´ve already shot plus we REALLY need to raise money—LOTS of money. If you know anyone with $5,000-$7,000 to offer us, we´d be able to shoot a really cool scene in which our hero is daydreaming about how the gitanos (Gypsies) came to Jerez.
This scene will include an old fashioned Gypsy caravan, a mule, a goat, a gitano family from Romania that speaks Romani, and many other really great features which are, yes indeed, in the script. |
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EveAMa posted an announcement
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Yesterday, we got together with our web master & graphic designer in Spain to get started on the web site for this show. SOMETHING should be up within a week, AND our publicity piece will be ready for us to take around to potential funders. We’ve also just updated our perks for anyone interested in contributing. Ayer, hemos trabajado con el chico que nos hace las paginas web y diseno grafico y pensamos que dentro de una semana vamos a tener colocado la pagina por este proyecto. Tambien vamos a tener revisado la publicidad que necesitamos para llevar a empresas que pueden darnos apoyo. Por fin, acabamos de revisar los “perks” que ofrecemos a los que nos dan contribuciones. |
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EveAMa posted an announcement
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(9 months ago)
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Yesterday we spent seven hours in the countryside in the full sun shooting a NEW SCENE…with four young girls portraying Antonio’s grandmother and her friends in the early 1900s. We’ll post a few photos soon. Ayer, hemos pasado siete horas en el sol, la temperatura 45 grados o más, grabando una escena con cuatro chicas de unos 15 años que representan la abuelita de Antonio y sus amigas por los años 1910. En pocos dias colocamos algunas fotos. |
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EveAMa posted an announcement
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THANK YOU Media Art Works (MAW) for your contribution of $100. We used $55 of that to complete our $500 goal here on IndieGogo and the other $45 we deposited directly into our account. GRACIAS Media Art Works (MAW) por su contribución de $100. Hemos utilizado $55 de este dinerito para llegar al $500 desde IndieGogo y lo demás $45 lo hemos puesto directamente en nuestra cuesta bancaria |
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EveAMa added a new image
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Scene of grandmother's childhood--niñez de la abuela
Here are three of the four young girls we´ll use in the scene we´re shooting tomorrow, recollecting what his grandmother told him about her youth. As should be clear, the girls are dressed in period clothing. Aqui tres de las cuatro niñas que vamos a grabar mañana en una escena por un pozo, recordando lo que le ha dicho a Antonio su abuela, hablando de su niñez. Las chicas llevan ropa de la época, ¿si?
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| VIP PERKS |
| $25 or more = Web site recognition |
| Your name to appear permanently on our web site´s THANKS page. Su nombre lo colocamos por nuestra pagain web. |
| 5 Claimed |
| $50 or more = CD OR note cards |
| Antonio de la Malena's CD "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo," OR a pack of 12 note cards with original design by Eve A. Ma and Antonio de la Malena. Un CD de Antonio de la Malena ("Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo") O cartas postales con diseno orginal creado por Eva Ma y Antonio de la Malena. |
| 3 Claimed |
| $100 or more = CD AND note cards |
| Antonio de la Malena´s CD, "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo," AND a pack of 12 note cards with original design by Eve A. Ma and Antonio de la Malena. ALONG WITH recognition on the THANKS page of our web site. CD de Antonio de la Malena "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo" y TAMBIEN cartas postales con diseno original creado por Eva Ma y Antonio de la Malena. |
| 2 Claimed |
| $250 or more = DVD |
| Any DVD listed on our web site (www.PalominoPro.com). Que elige un DVD (cualquier) de nuestra pagina web (www.PalominoPro.com). |
| 0 Claimed |
| $500 or more = Thanked in show's credits |
| Your name in the show´s credits. Su nombre colocado en los titulos de credito de la pelicula. |
| 0 Claimed |
| $1,000 or more = Thanked=credits, LOGO=web site |
| Your name in the show's credits and your LOGO on the web site. Su nombre en los titulos de credito y su sello-logo colocado por nuestra pagain web. |
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| HOW THESE FUNDS WILL BE USED |
| Finish work on the show's web site--note that the web site appears in two languages (English & Spanish). Desarrollar la pagina web. (A NOTAR--la pagina se ve en dos idiomas--ingles y espanol). |
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$25
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CD AND note cards |
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| VIP PERKS |
| $25 or more = Web site recognition |
| Your name to appear permanently on our web site´s THANKS page. Su nombre lo colocamos por nuestra pagain web. |
| 5 Claimed |
| $50 or more = CD OR note cards |
| Antonio de la Malena's CD "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo," OR a pack of 12 note cards with original design by Eve A. Ma and Antonio de la Malena. Un CD de Antonio de la Malena ("Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo") O cartas postales con diseno orginal creado por Eva Ma y Antonio de la Malena. |
| 3 Claimed |
| $100 or more = CD AND note cards |
| Antonio de la Malena´s CD, "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo," AND a pack of 12 note cards with original design by Eve A. Ma and Antonio de la Malena. ALONG WITH recognition on the THANKS page of our web site. CD de Antonio de la Malena "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo" y TAMBIEN cartas postales con diseno original creado por Eva Ma y Antonio de la Malena. |
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| $250 or more = DVD |
| Any DVD listed on our web site (www.PalominoPro.com). Que elige un DVD (cualquier) de nuestra pagina web (www.PalominoPro.com). |
| 0 Claimed |
| $500 or more = Thanked in show's credits |
| Your name in the show´s credits. Su nombre colocado en los titulos de credito de la pelicula. |
| 0 Claimed |
| $1,000 or more = Thanked=credits, LOGO=web site |
| Your name in the show's credits and your LOGO on the web site. Su nombre en los titulos de credito y su sello-logo colocado por nuestra pagain web. |
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| HOW THESE FUNDS WILL BE USED |
| Finish work on the show's web site--note that the web site appears in two languages (English & Spanish). Desarrollar la pagina web. (A NOTAR--la pagina se ve en dos idiomas--ingles y espanol). |
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| Co-directors (co-directores) Eve A. Ma (Eva Ma) & Antonio de la Malena. (Here we are in the countryside, shooting a re-creation of his parents working with other gitanos pruning grapes in a vineyard near Jerez. Gitanos normally worked in groups of 12-14 and sang flamenco as they worked.
Aquí estamos rodando en una viña. Los padres de Antonio trabajaban en el campo por muchos años. Gitanos normalmente trabajaban en grupos de 12-14 personas. Trabajaban y a la vez, cantaban flamenco.)
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| Singer Rosario Soto who portrays the mother. Cantaora Rosario Soto--la madre. (Antonio's parents constructed their house from scratch as did all their neighbors. The small houses were connected by a common wall. When Antonio was born, the floor was dirt, the street was dirt, the house had only one room.
Los padres de Antonio se han construido su propia casa poco a poco durante muchos años. Cuando nació Antonio, el suelo era todavía de tierra y no había que un cuarto.)
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| Antonio de la Malena (the smaller one) & a brother . Antonio (el chiquito). (Antonio de la Malena with his older brother Manuel de la Malena (also a flamenco cantaor). There were six children in the family: four boys and two girls.
Antonio de la Malena con su hermano mayor (Manuel de la Malena, también es cantaor). Había seis niños en la familia, cuatro machos y dos embras.)
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| Antonio de la Malena with his parents, 2007. Antonio con sus padres, 2007. (Antonio and his parents, 2007. His mother, partially crippled by a hard life, died later that year.
Antonio con sus padres, 2007. Su madre, que ha mucho sufrido y subido mucha daño de una vida dura, se ha muerto antes del fin del años.)
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| Part of the crew in the vineyard. Una parte del equipo en la viña. (We were lucky enough to be offered use of a vineyard by a major winery in the area, Gonzalez-Byass. Crew members visible here are Richard Gonzalez (sound), Javi Aguilar (camera) and Eva Ma (yours truly--co-producer, co-director, and that day, camera #2 as well). It was a hot, hot day. )
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| Actors waiting for the call. Actores esperando que los necesitamos. (This is a still from the scene in the vineyard. Farm workers ate and often slept in the countryside during growing and harvesting season. Many of the larger farms and estates had special barn-like buildings called "cortijos" where there was a kitchen, and space enough for them to eat and sleep. These actors are waiting inside the cortijo.)
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| Last photo from the vineyard shoot--make-up. El maquiaje en la viña. (Most of our actors were gitanos. Those that weren't had to have some color added to their faces and hands.)
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| Dieguito playing Antonio aged 4-5. Dieguito (el Antonio de 4-5 años). (Other than Antonio de la Malena himself, the star for the first half of our show is a very sweet and bright little boy named Dieguito who plays Antonio at the age of 4-5, when he was called Antonito ("little Antonio"). Dieguito loves acting and dancing flamenco. He's in the second grade and is a charmer.)
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| Sound tech and actors. Técnico de sonido y actores. (Here's Antonio Moreno Jimenez, one of our sound tech with two actors--Nicolas Montoya (the father) on the right. The scene shows Antonio's father and a friend gathering cat-tail reeds for Antonio´s mother to use to weave chair bottoms.
Aqui un técnico de sonido (Antono Moreno Jimenez) y dos actores (a la derecha, Nicolas Montoya que protagonisa al padre de Antonio) en la grabacción de la escena en donde el padre coge la nea para que la madre pueda hacer sillas de nea.)
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| Ronda: 11th century bridge. Ronda: Esta puente data del siglo 11. (We'll include a bit of Antonio's family history in our show. His family comes from "los negros de Ronda," gitanos who left Romania (presumably after getting there from India), went down into Barcelona and then moved to Ronda. I'm guessing they would have encamped in the countryside and entered Ronda via this 11th century bridge. Later, many families settled in southern Andalucia, including Jerez.
La familia de Antonio llega de "los negros de Ronda." Aqui una puente para entrar en el pueblo.)
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| Scene of grandmother's childhood--niñez de la abuela (Here are three of the four young girls we´ll use in the scene we´re shooting tomorrow, recollecting what his grandmother told him about her youth. As should be clear, the girls are dressed in period clothing. Aqui tres de las cuatro niñas que vamos a grabar mañana en una escena por un pozo, recordando lo que le ha dicho a Antonio su abuela, hablando de su niñez. Las chicas llevan ropa de la época, ¿si?)
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| Shooting a pick-up scene. Grabando por la nea. (Here we are shooting a scene in the countryside. This is a pick-up scene to supplement something shot earlier that we decided needed MORE. Aqui estamos en el campo, grabando otro material para la escena en que el padre corta la nea con un compañero para llevarlo a casa, dónde la madre hace sillas de nea.)
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| Co-directors at work. Co-directores grabando. (Here are the co-directors, Eve A. Ma and Antonio de la Malena, in the scene we shot today in the countryside. Aquí nosotros, los co-directores (Antonio de la Malena y Eva Ma) en el campo por la grabacción que hemos realizado hoy mismo.)
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Synthesis of the show--long & short versions
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You are more than welcome to comment on these. The Spanish version is at the top and the English version underneath.
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Summary--ROUGH DRAFT and PARTIAL
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Here's the rough draft of the first half of the show. We have two scenes left for the period when he's nine years old, and then several scenes from when he was 13--at the end of which, we end the show.
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Resumen--preliminario y borrador
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Aqui el resumen del proyecto en forma preliminario y borrador. Vamos a trabajarlo un poco que después podemos utiizar para desarrollar bien el guión y también enviarlo con solucitudes para subvenciones.
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| VIP PERKS |
| $25 or more = Web site recognition |
| Your name to appear permanently on our web site´s THANKS page. Su nombre lo colocamos por nuestra pagain web. |
| 5 Claimed |
| $50 or more = CD OR note cards |
| Antonio de la Malena's CD "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo," OR a pack of 12 note cards with original design by Eve A. Ma and Antonio de la Malena. Un CD de Antonio de la Malena ("Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo") O cartas postales con diseno orginal creado por Eva Ma y Antonio de la Malena. |
| 3 Claimed |
| $100 or more = CD AND note cards |
| Antonio de la Malena´s CD, "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo," AND a pack of 12 note cards with original design by Eve A. Ma and Antonio de la Malena. ALONG WITH recognition on the THANKS page of our web site. CD de Antonio de la Malena "Yo Soy Asi, Asi Soy Yo" y TAMBIEN cartas postales con diseno original creado por Eva Ma y Antonio de la Malena. |
| 2 Claimed |
| $250 or more = DVD |
| Any DVD listed on our web site (www.PalominoPro.com). Que elige un DVD (cualquier) de nuestra pagina web (www.PalominoPro.com). |
| 0 Claimed |
| $500 or more = Thanked in show's credits |
| Your name in the show´s credits. Su nombre colocado en los titulos de credito de la pelicula. |
| 0 Claimed |
| $1,000 or more = Thanked=credits, LOGO=web site |
| Your name in the show's credits and your LOGO on the web site. Su nombre en los titulos de credito y su sello-logo colocado por nuestra pagain web. |
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| HOW THESE FUNDS WILL BE USED |
| Finish work on the show's web site--note that the web site appears in two languages (English & Spanish). Desarrollar la pagina web. (A NOTAR--la pagina se ve en dos idiomas--ingles y espanol). |
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