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Tomorrow we will be sending out an e-mail (.jpg to the right.) Would you mind keeping an eye out for it and sending it along to your friends? The campaign has been tremendous. CNN has picked up the story, the Atlantic, and I had a wonderful call today with a producer at The Today Show (they are tracking the story) so you’re making headlines. Production meetings have been going almost daily in Nashville. There is a spirit in the room that is inspired. The entire crew is feeling your support. When crews work on film projects, everybody wonders whether what they are making is special. It is very, very rare for a crew to know their project is special before the cameras are even turned on. You’ve made this project special. You’ve made it historical. When you give even a dollar, you will be put on an exclusive list of investors, and you’ll be treated as such. We will be sending you the same updates we send our primary investor (whose story of sacrifice and generosity is equally amazing) telling you how production is going. The list of people who have donated to the film will be our main focus [...]

It’s all over tomorrow! If you’ve donated to the film, thanks. Thanks, thanks and thanks again. Tomorrow we want to press hard all the way to Midnight (EST). So here are some last minute things you can do to help us…And once again, THANKS. 1. Donate if you haven’t. Even a dollar gets you on our mailing list so we can send you updates about the film. 2. For the final 16 hours or so, I’ll be sending tweets counting down the hours. Each tweet will have the kickstarter link. Will you retweet a couple of these? Don’t bug your friends too much, but this would help a great deal. 3. Please write a blog about the campaign that explains why you’ve donated. 4. Kindly make the link your facebook status. Here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/2vudtwg 5. Email your friends the link. http://tinyurl.com/2vudtwg You’ve been incredibly gracious and kind throughout this insane turn of events. Some of you know how uncomfortable it is to ask for help, and you’ve shown us nothing but grace as we’ve gone about this. Tomorrow at midnight, we will stop asking, and start giving back. With much gratitude, Don Miller

I hope you are having a terrific Sunday morning. Tomorrow is the big day. Tomorrow the kickstarter campaign ends, and nobody else will be able to make small investments in the film. The greatest aspect of this entire, rather miraculous story, is the remarkable community that has sprung up almost overnight. We, and by that I mean literally thousands of us, are making a movie. But the movie will hardly trump the story you have already told. This morning, I wanted to give you a few pages from the script. This is a scene from act one, and it’s one of my favorites. It’s a scene in which Don’s dad pulls into town. He’s a professor but something of a vagabond, and he and Don’s mom have differing opinions about Don’s religious upbringing. He’s called the Hobo in the scene because Don and his friend Jordan gave him this nickname in that he comes through town randomly and without notice, and also because he travels in an old RV, filled with Jazz records, beer and often an intern with which he has an inappropriate relationship. The actor we are bringing in for this scene is fantastic. His audition was impressive [...]

Kickstarter is no longer counting down the days for the Save Blue Like Jazz campaign. They’ve switched over to counting down the hours. Unless each of us become multi-millionaires, this may be our last opportunity to invest in a movie. Please join us today. Before we roll into Monday, when we will be asking people to run full-court press up to the deadline, I wanted to give you one last video update (there will be tons more once we start shooting, but this will be the last regarding joining the team). A few things we want to promise: 1. After the campaign, we won’t leave you in the dark. We have two blogs planned, a production blog and an investor relations blog. We are even planning conference calls in which you will be able to call in and hear weekly updates from the set (technology allowing). 2. If you give even one dollar, you will be on a list of high-priority partners. We will be emailing you shortly after the campaign closes asking for your phone number (I will be calling you personally to thank you) and mailing address (you will be the first to get promotional swag). So if [...]

For the last couple weeks, Steve Taylor has been as busy as ever. You brought the movie back from the dead, which meant he had to hire a crew, hire actors, scout and lockdown locations and make thank-you calls to donors (I’m gladly taking over that task!) all while cutting the budget as much as possible. He’s been incredible. Once we start shooting, you won’t be in the dark. Updates like these will continue to hit the blog, and if you’ve donated, you’ll be getting tons more communication through e-mail. Here’s a special message from Steve as we move into our final few days of fundraising. If you’ve not donated to the project yet, please join us here. And if you have, please share the link through Facebok and Twitter. We are very grateful. Here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/2vudtwg Thank you again for your support. Things normally slow down over the weekend, but will you help us by talking about the campaign on Facebook? Email your friends? Tweet about the project? We are going to hit it as hard as we can on Monday. Please forgive us for being annoying. It’s going to be something like a telethon as we recruit [...]