Author Archives: Xtopher
A Brave New Year
Happy New Year everyone — I hope you are as thrilled and excited for 2011 as I am!!! Things are once again moving at a rapid pace now that the hustle and bustle of the holidays have passed. Silver Fish … Continue reading
The Magic Number
As I was trying not to look at the treadmill display in my local gym yesterday morning, I happened to glance down just as the time read 20:01, and I couldn’t help but smile; 2001 is definitely a magical number! … Continue reading
The Price on Kickstarter: A Rallying Cry
(Originally posted on www.nathanielhansen.com, by Christopher’s co-producer Nathaniel Hansen) The Price on Kickstarter: A Rallying Cry It’s been an emotional roller-coaster over the last two weeks as I’ve worked comfortably behind the scenes to spread the word about our animated … Continue reading
How to determine the price of “The Price”
I have received several questions from potential backers asking how their donations for The Price will be utilized and how we chose the specific amount, so I thought it might be helpful to explain how that number was reached. The … Continue reading
15 Days to Go!!
I wanted to send an update this morning to thank every one of you who has pledged to this project — you are all wonderful!!! (You’ve not only helped with your financial contributions, but with your tremendous words of support … Continue reading
Chart-topping cellist Zoë Keating on board for “The Price”!!!
I’m really excited about this bit of news…and think you will be too!!! If you don’t know her work, Zoë Keating is an award-winning recording artist, cellist, composer, and performer who has been topping the billboard classical charts this year … Continue reading
600 and counting …
Congrats to John Spink, our 600th backer so far!!! And additional congrats to all of our new Associate Producers out there, including one who is a comic writer/filmmaker himself, flying out to LA to sell his own feature right now, … Continue reading
What … a … day!!!
Unbelievable … it’s been an unprecedented couple of days for this project!!! As you know, I’m in the middle of a historic Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for an animated version of Neil Gaiman’s wonderful short story The Price. It’s historic in Kickstarter terms, … Continue reading
Our Story featured on Blastr.com
Earlier today SyFy’s news site Blastr.com published a story about our effort to raise $150k over the next 28 days (gulp!). We need all the help we can get from fans on this one. We’ve been trying to take traditional … Continue reading
“The Price” by Neil Gaiman—A Kickstarter Drive (TOR.com)
Brit Mandello over at TOR.com has written a wonderful article which (in our opinion) really nails the mission of this kickstarter project: To create a film by fans for fans and to do it without the restraints of traditional financing/production/distribution … Continue reading
