Reel In The Closet

A project in San Francisco, CA by Stu Maddux
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A documentary that reveals the endangered and invisible home movies made by LGBT people dating back to the 1930s.
Backers: 127
Average Pledge Per Backer: $158

Funded: $20,019 of $15,000
Dates: Oct 1st -> Oct 31st (30 days)
Project By: Stu Maddux
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Latest News

The Final Day!

October 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Our campaign ends at 5pm edt. /2pm pdt. and we feel history calling to us. We have passed our initial goal, and now every $248 received above our initial goal allows us to make a high quality transfer of one more home movie made by an LGBT... (Read More)

Goal Reached with 2 days left! With the extra time let's transfer the never before seen home movie with Dr. McCoy

October 27th - via: kickstarter.com
We did it! Thank you!! Dare I dream? If we keep going even more cool things start to happen.  If we can reach $20,000 by Friday then we can transfer a final box of home movies from the late 1930s. One of them says “DeForest Kelley” on it.   We... (Read More)

72 hours and $2000 to go!

October 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
I am sure I'll be asked in Q&As why there is a toaster oven in this shot and I'll say something about what it symbolizes. But only you backers know the truth, I have no f*ing clue why it's there. A tremendous thank you if this is your first... (Read More)

Costume Ideas from Halloween 1968/ We made Huffington Post

October 19th - via: kickstarter.com
We are about 2/3rds to our fundraising goal with a week left in our campaign.  As many of you know Kickstarter is an all or nothing deal. We make our goal of 15K or we get nothing.   We will make it if folks continue to forward this update to... (Read More)

Double down Sunday/ 12 days to go/ Check out this clip!

October 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Until midnight PDT, anyone backing us with $100 gets upgraded to the $250 level. Already backed us? Add $100 to your current donation and you are in. That's some green, but if we make our goal of ten donors, I have promised to post this performance... (Read More)

With 13 days to go, some great coverage and more on tap

October 12th - via: kickstarter.com
The coverage of our campaign for LGBT History Month is happening! Next Thursday: Huffington Post Next Monday: Outtakes Voices Today:   Dear Stu, Here's a link to the piece we just published on Indieplex Online... (Read More)

Fun thing to pass on if you don't mind

October 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Our campaign is off to a strong start thanks to some large donors. We are using the weekend to up our number of backers.  More backers (even $1 backers) create more buzz on kickstarter as many of you know.  Here's what's going on over at our... (Read More)

This is how we do it

October 4th - via: kickstarter.com
I am borrowing a friends apartment in Washington DC to focus on getting the edit done on Reel In The Closet.  But there was a screening of our LGBT aging doc, Gen Silent, here last night at an aging conference.  I thought you might like to see how... (Read More)

Sneak 10 min peak of the rough cut as of this morning.

October 4th - via: kickstarter.com
 Let's take a peak at what we are creating together.  Lot's of good old home movie clips in this rough cut of the first ten minutes.  Since this is a collaboration, I would love your comments and questions.  Ask me anything! -Stu  (Read More)

Kickstarter or beach? Kickstarter or beach? Kickstarter or...

October 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Director Stu Maddux editing Reel In The Closet after a conference screening of another film Kickstarter. Here I am editing Reel In The Closet after our screening of another film, Gen Silent, at an aging conference. I got to the beach a little bit... (Read More)

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