Festival Submissions

By: Jesse Mursky-Fuller - November 17th, 2009
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This update has been a long time coming and we apologize for the delay. It's not that we've been lazy, but rather the opposite. 'Mary and Bill' has had a number of successful and helpful test screenings over the past few months and we're very happy with the feedback. Thank you to all who contributed.

Instilled with confidence and a new cut of the film following the screenings, we proceeded to submit to festivals. We have submitted to 17 festivals so far, including Sundance, True/False, Full Frame, Atlanta, and Cinequest. We will let you know as soon as we have heard back from any of them.

If you're on this page, you probably passed through the homepage and saw that we have a new 60-second teaser trailer cut and posted. If you missed it or haven't been to the homepage we encourage you to go there and watch it. Andrew spent a good amount of time putting it together and we'd love to hear your thoughts.

Coupled with the release of the trailer we have started an online donation collection through payPal. Our goal is to raise $1,500 by December 14th in order to submit to 30 more festivals and spread Mary and Bill's stories more broadly across the world. If you'd like to help us achieve this, go here https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9425590. You can donate securely with any credit card or payPal account. Thank you to those that collectively donated $134 in the first day of the collection.

Contribution Benefits:
Any contributor of $30 - $149 receives an 11" x 17" Mary and Bill Poster.
Any contributor of $50+ receives an album form the composer of the 'Mary and bill' soundtrack (this album is not the soundtrack)
Any contributor of $150+ receives a full size 27" x 41" Mary and Bill Poster.

We thank you as well if you have donated previously. The film would not be on the path to greatness that is without you. Your continued help in spreading the word and the new teaser trailer by directing your friends, family, and any other interested persons to the website would be greatly appreciated.

That's all for now. We promise to do a better job of keeping you up to date from now on. 'Mary and Bill' has an eventful year approaching.