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£3,000 Tell A Friend

An update for Debut Short, 'Real Thirsty', starring Bryan Cranston, Joely Richardson, John Douglas Thompson and Jack Dee

Sep 30 2018

Hello faithful backers!

We broke £3,000!!!

We are super happy about that but we only have twelve days and we are a little behind. 

There are 57 of you who have already kindly supported us. If each of you tell 5/10 people about our project we have a real chance to reach our target. You can tag us on instagram and twitter @realthirstyfilm and direct them to this page!

Thank you so much for your support and stay thirsty. 

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Publicists and Posters

An update for Debut Short, 'Real Thirsty', starring Bryan Cranston, Joely Richardson, John Douglas Thompson and Jack Dee

Sep 24 2018

Beautiful backers, 

We have recently brought a publicist and a social media consultant on board to try and grow our social media reach. We're very close to pushing into £3,000.

If you haven't already, sharing on social media about your support for our project is a great way to encourage others to donate. Right now out goal is to get the word out to as many people as possible.

Below is a rough draft of our poster by Desk Tidy Design. 

Thanks again, 

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£2,000, Peter Bradshaw and Pop Bitch

An update for Debut Short, 'Real Thirsty', starring Bryan Cranston, Joely Richardson, John Douglas Thompson and Jack Dee

Sep 20 2018

Real Thirsty backers, 

We've breached £2,000 and had some press support from Peter Bradshaw and the infamous comedy/culture newsletter Pop Bitch. 

We're so thankful for your support and encourage you to follow us on instagram and twitter @realthirstyfilm and pleased on continue to share this page and our promo video. 

Stay Thirsty, 

Rob and the team. 

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We broke £1,000! Thank you.

An update for Debut Short, 'Real Thirsty', starring Bryan Cranston, Joely Richardson, John Douglas Thompson and Jack Dee

Sep 12 2018

Real Thirsty investors!

We just broke £1,000. Thank you so much for your kind investment. 

Please continue to share our instagram, twitter and fundsurfer to help us keep going and reach our goal.

Thanks again and stay thirsty

x 

The Jump Update... We are Back!

An update for El Gran Salto (The Jump)

Aug 19 2018

Hello my friend! 

Sorry for being so absent this last months regarding the updates to our project "The Jump" (El Gran Salto) around here. I got news... We are back!!

Two years after completing production, we are glad to announce that we are starting postproduction as I write to you guys. Fortunately we were granted the Mexican tax credit stimuli EFICINE, with with we will be able to complete the film!

Right now I'm in Monterrey Mexico having a couple of meetings with our music composer Bernardo Flores while still working with our editor Aldo Osorio to get our best final edited cut for the documentary. 

 Thanks so much for all the love and support you gave us two years ago when we launched our fund surfing campaign. I´ll never forget that because of you this documentary will be available to everyone very soon. Back on track I promise I´ll make my best to keep you up to date with all news regarding post-production. We are aiming to have the completed film by January to start a good festival run.

Love,

Jorge Porras / Director 

Your rewards will be with you soon!

An update for Help Save the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade

Jul 23 2018

Hello lovely backers

I hope you are enjoying this glorious weather - I know that the #bemmylanterns team are.

We are so super excited and super grateful to each and every one of you, so thank you for making the 2018 Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade happen.Plans are underway and the project will be starting in September!

But! To other super important things! 

Your reward(s)!

The team is fixing the logistical bits and pieces out, and will be in touch via email very soon to sort out getting your chosen Reward(s) to you.  You will receive an email during the next week, so keep an eye out from a message from info@bwlp.org.uk. 

Thank you again for being so brilliant.  Go ahead and give yourself a high five.  

You deserve it.

Love the #bemmylanterns team x

Thank you Thank you Thank you

An update for Bristol Shakespeare Festival

Jul 15 2018

The fundraiser is closed for this year . Thank you so much to all of you who donated you are all fantastically kind and generous .  Your funding went to support our in- house production 1599 A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE  and to kickstart a new educational project.

Well done for helping to bring the bard to Bristol and for being our favourite Bristol Bard Buddies - Enjoy the rest of the festival :)

Some good news and another terrible meme

An update for Help Save the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade

Jul 8 2018

Crivens!  Time has flown by and we are only one week away from the end of this epic Fundsurfer. 

Here’s the good news

Thanks to the generosity of the people who donated the awesomesauce Rewards, and the kindness of the splendid people who donated hard cash, we made the target last week.

Phew!  And yay!

But there’s some bad news

As previously mentioned, we’re rinsing the #bemmylanterns account to make ends meet this year.  We’ll have zero. Zilch. Zippo.  Nothing in the bank to give us the whiff of a hope for future Lantern Parades. 

But here’s the extra good news!

We still have 7 days and we still have some superfantasticwicked Rewards for you to choose from, including:

• Coffee & cake at the Milkshed
• 1 hour Pilates lessons from Bristol Pilates Studio
• A visit to the heartfm studio breakfast show
• Bundle of 3 book by paul.j.newell
• Hot or cold drink after the Parade
• Milkshed venue hire
• And of course, the 2018 lantern kits which will get you into the actual 2018 Parade! Woop!

So lets get on this!  Help us secure the future of the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade and bag yourself a treat while you’re at it.

But where's the terrible meme? (said no-one ever)

Here you go.  You're welcome.

No I am Shakespeare!

An update for Bristol Shakespeare Festival

Jul 4 2018

Fantastic Globe selfies and great reviews , can only mean one thing, 1599 is here!!!

Audience Reviews

Great show exploring one of the most important and eventful years in the career of Bill Shakespeare - playfully combines the past and present to explore what might have inspired As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar and the building of the Globe. Loved the gender-swapped roles - especially the female Shakespeare! Enjoyed the in-the-round performance culminating with a magical building of the Globe Theatre itself.​

1599 is a witty and amusing suggestion of where Shakespeare’s incredible works may have come from. 

The performance was engaging from start to finish.

We can't wait for you to come and enjoy the best seats in the house :)

But please do continue to spread the word about our fundraiser and 1599 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. We want to go on to develop new shows, encourage creatives and bring and engage the word of Shakespeare to EVERYBODY!!

A really important update (and some football references - it seemed topical)

An update for Help Save the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade

Jul 2 2018

I don’t know what to say.  I really don’t.

As I may have hinted yesterday, I was a bit nervous about hitting our target in the next two weeks.  That was a bit of an understatement.  I had about the same tension levels as Peter Schmeichel during yesterday evening’s penalty shootout between Denmark and Croatia.

What I didn’t expect was today’s news, which made me feel like this:

(and I might have used some of the “Language” than observant lipreaders might have spotted during his happy outburst)

For, today we received a donation, which has meant we have only hecking well hit the target!  And that means, unlike poor Denmark, victory is ours! Ours!

That's right!  You heard it!

The Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade 2018 is on!  That’s right!  It is on! You are the first to know this news because you, you awesome people you, are the reason why it will be a thing.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to each and every one of you!

But the story doesn’t end here. 

Not by a long shot.

We’re through to the next round!

We’re going to be able to put on the Parade this year, but it will use up all of our Emergency Super Back Up Cash Stash that we have in reserve to keep our collective heads above water.

Anything that we raise from here on in increases the chance of there being a 2019 Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade (I can’t believe I’m saying that!), so lets keep the momentum going.

We still have a host of lovely rewards available (including some super treats I had been keeping to one side just in case we needed a big push), so you know what to do – keep on sharing and hassling friends, family and perfect strangers to donate to keep the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade shining!

And I'm out of football references.  Thank goodness.

Thank you so much, folks!

love from the #bemmylanterns team x