Dear Friends –

After more than a decade of trying to bring The Winding Stream to life, we are beyond thrilled to say that we have a picture-locked cut and - if the stars continue to align - we will be finished in February of 2013!

As you well know, it’s been a long haul for this project. But we’ve made tremendous progress in 2012, thanks to you. Your moral and financial support just buoyed us and made it possible to move ahead.

What we have now is a very-close-to-finished cut of an exciting, sweeping story about America’s first family of country music – the Carters and the Cashes!

That said, we still have post-production hurdles. We have to clear music and archival rights, finish the online edit, mix the sound, and do color correction.

In what can only be called a daring move, we’ve already started applying to a number of spring film festivals, so the urgency to wrap everything up is very real. Fingers crossed that the first festival up in March will be South X Southwest, the prestigious music and film festival in Austin, Texas. To us, this seems like the perfect place to premiere The Winding Stream.

We can’t attend those festivals if we haven’t cleared those pricey music and archival rights and completed all the post-production steps.

To meet the festival goals, we need to raise an additional $50,000 by February.
Can you help us get there? Can you share this with others who might be interested in supporting a project like this? We know many of you have already been very generous but if you’re inclined to give again, we’d be grateful.

Please watch this video to see what we’ve been up to!

Remember, your contribution made out to our non-profit fiscal sponsor, The Center for Independent Documentary, is fully tax-deductible. And for the first 15 backers who donate $100 or more, we will send you this beautiful David Lasky giclee print! 

And if you’re in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, January 17, we’re hosting an old-timey event at the Bagdad Theater to benefit the completion phase of the film. The illustrious Foghorn String Band will be playing, we’ll show new clips from the film, there will be a raffle for great prizes and a Carter singalong! Get it on your calendar. More details to come! 

We hope your holidays are filled with love and warmth and good music.


Gratefully,

Beth and The Winding Stream Team