THANK YOU

We want to thank everyone that helped us out with the benefits at UVSC and Ken Sanders Rare Books, both of which were very successful. As of today all of our expenses are covered for our trip to NYC and Italy/Sicily...which is a MASSIVE relief. We've had our plane tickets for quite some time now and it has been kind of up in the air whether or not we were going to have all the funds that we had budgeted the travel costs, transportation, food, film, equipment, etc. Now, with that taken care of, we can now fully focus on getting the best possible footage while we are away. We are right on time with our original schedule for shooting, editing, and promoting the film. The School of General Academics at UVSC has been especially helpful in the past few weeks, thanks especially to Bonnie Henrie and Michelle Kearns. Also, we want to note that the Integrated Studies Department has constantly helped us from the very beginning...we wouldn't have ever been able to get this project off the ground without the sustained support we've received from Don LaVange and Scott Abbott. 

We also want to thank all of the various private donors, the many UVSC schools/departments/programs, and all those who helped us along the way in getting this far, there are way too many at this point to name comprehensively in a single blog post. We still have a lot of work to do on the film, but we feel confident that we can do it, and do it well...especially with such incredible support.

In Gratitude...

Wow, things are really coming together for us! We wanted to formally express our appreciation to everyone that has helped us along the way. Thanks to Jack Christianson, Stasha Wright, and the Center for Engaged Learning at UVSC (as well as those on the Community of Engaged Learners grant committee(s)) for awarding the CEL grant to our project, this will really help make our project materialize! Thanks to Dean Bonnie Henrie and the School of General Academics at UVSC for supporting our project and approving our application for the CEL grant. Thanks to Scott Abbott, Don LaVange, and the Integrated Studies Department at UVSC for their constant support, and for their generous donation. Thanks to Eleanor Cleverly-Takahashi and Jack Waters and everyone at The College Times (independent newspaper at UVSC) for the amazing article on our project, and for their continued support. Additionally, thanks to the long list of people (that have not yet been named) who signed on to our CEL grant application, that give us advice, encourage us, support us, and help us in this massive process: Jans Wager, David Knowlton, Laurie Whitt, Larry Harper, Alan Clarke, Scott Carrier, Nancy Rushforth, Michaela Giesenkirchen-Sawyer, Phil Gordon, Errin Julkunen-Pedersen, Vegor Pedersen, Erin Donahoe-Rankin, Ben Rankin, Jason Grotegut, Ashley Thalman, Cade Thalman, Andrew James, Marissa Bernhard, Joey Mayes, and (of course) Alex Caldiero. We must be forgetting a few people...if so, we apologize. We certainly wouldn't have ever been able to (or even imagined that we could have) accomplish so much in so little time without so much help.

Sincerely,

-Torben Bernhard and Travis Low-