Muffin Top "Girls' Night Out" Red Carpet Premiere Tour

A project in Los Angeles, CA by Cathryn Michon and W. Bruce Cameron
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Hollywood would never make a rom com about female body image, but we did! We need your help to bring Muffin Top to theaters nationwide.
Backers: 738
Average Pledge Per Backer: $123

Funded: $91,101 of $75,000
Dates: Oct 23rd -> Nov 22nd (31 days)
Project By: Cathryn Michon and W. Bruce Cameron
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Latest News

Cathryn Michon's 'Muffin Top' Movie-Ment to Put Chicks Back in Flicks

November 22nd - via: saltedscarletry.com
Cathryn Michon is not your average Hollywood writer, actor, director. She's not even male! And that's the point of her latest film project Muffin Top: A Love Story which she co-wrote, directed and stars in, and where the mission and "movie-ment" is to "put chicks back in flicks." (Read More)

Special Postpartum Q&A by Bruce!

November 21st - via: kickstarter.com
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TO OUR AMAZING DREAM TEAM MUFFIN TOP From Director, Cathryn Michon

November 21st - via: kickstarter.com
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TO MY BELOVED TEAM MUFFIN TOP: From Cathryn Michon, Director

November 18th - via: kickstarter.com
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TO MY BELOVED TEAM MUFFIN TOP: From Cathryn Michon, Director

November 18th - via: kickstarter.com
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Marissa Jaret Winokur: I'm Like A Healthy Teenager

November 18th - via: myfoxla.com
Marissa Jaret Winokur wants you to help get her new movie into theaters. The movie is called "Muffin Top: A Love Story" and it pokes fun at how women are portrayed in movies and on TV. It's a comedy that was written and directed by women, stars Cathryn Michon, and features Haylie Duff and Diedrich Bader (both from "Napoleon Dynamite"), Markie Post, David Arquette and Dot Jones (from "Glee."). (Read More)

Muffin Top Movie: Reclaiming the Female Image

November 17th - via: huffingtonpost.com
Muffin top is the bit of blubbery overhang on a woman's mid-riff. Even it is barely noticeable, the female mind expands it exponentially to a monster truck tire. On this natural and normal belt, sadly, self-esteem dangles in despair. Is it possible to reclaim the muffin top as something positive? (Read More)

Muffin Top: A Love Story

November 15th - via: midlifeboulevard.com
My friend Tracy Beckerman from Lost in Suburbia introduced me to her friend Cathryn Michon this week. Cathryn is a writer, actor and director. That last one is especially important since only four percent of directors in Hollywood are women. (Read More)

Action-packed movies seem to be missing independent women

November 14th - via: post-gazette.com
“Only 6% of studio movies have a cast that is 50% women,” Cathryn Michon points out in the funding pitch. Which is kind of funny, considering real life has a cast that is half women. Not that Hollywood is famous for putting real life on the big screen, but still. (Read More)

This One Goes Out to All the Muffin Tops, Dimply Thighs, Sagging Boobs and The Women Who Own Them

November 13th - via: thesuburbanjungle.com
OK, here goes. I feel like I should take a deep breath and then spew out everything I have to say in one long run-on sentence that would totally impress you if you weren’t reading rather than hearing me do it. Yes, something is lost in the not hearing it part, but just imagine that’s what’s happening so you can be impressed when I’m done. (Read More)

Muffin Top: A Love Story

November 13th - via: lostinsuburbia.com
According to Glamour Magazine, 97 out of 100 of women report that they have at least one negative thought about their bodies per day. Every. Single. Day. (Read More)

Muffin Top: A Love Story

November 13th - via: hollandsentinel.com
I’m Cathryn Michon and one of the 4% of feature film directors who are women. I just made my first independent feature, Muffin Top: A Love Story, a hilarious romantic comedy about the body insecurity madness that overtakes us… the 97%. (Read More)

Everyone: Thank you.

November 11th - via: kickstarter.com
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Put Chicks in Flicks! Muffin Top: A Love Story

November 11th - via: joonbug.com
Joonbug interviews the hilarious and fabulous Cathryn Michon and Marissa Jaret Winokur about their new film, and the campaign behind it. (Read More)

TO THE GREATEST TEAM MUFFIN TOP I COULD EVER ASK FOR! An update from Cathryn Michon, Director

November 10th - via: kickstarter.com
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TO MY BELOVED TEAM MUFFIN TOP FROM DIRECTOR CATHRYN MICHON

November 6th - via: kickstarter.com
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A Message to Our Amazing Team Muffin Top Pledgers from the Film's Director, Cathryn Michon:

October 30th - via: kickstarter.com
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Marcia Wallace, voice of 'Simpsons' Krabappel, dies (update)

October 26th - via: scpr.org
Cathryn Michon, Wallace's friend for 15 years, directed Wallace in her last film, the romantic comedy "Muffin Top: A Love Story," in which she played herself. (Read More)

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