Minister of Self Defense Indiegogo
While writing Huffington Post to support and bring shine to other filmmakers ( A Lady Must Live, Millie and The Young Lords) I was learning about crowd funding too. Last month I attended a workshop on at IFP Media Center in Brooklyn with John Trigonis and Kristen Konwitz from Indiegogo Film. Thanks to the talented actors at Intar Theatre where scenes from the screenplay were read weekly. Backstage gave me access to post casting notices.This month I launched a crowd funding campaign "Minister of Self Defense" . "Minister of Self Defense" is a feature film project about Huey P. Newton of The Black Panther Party. As New York took to the streets in protest of the Eric Garner grand jury verdict ( I can't breathe!) I have been working on a three year journey to bring Huey's activism against police brutality in the 1960's to the big screen.This is the first step in a journey to make a feature film that can't be made without the peop