Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Mister Rogers, You & Me

Less than fifteen minutes ago, I Tweeted the following:

"Three three days and $385 left to hit our $10,000 "Mister Rogers & Me" fundraising goal... Please help!"

Two minutes and two backers later, we hit our goal!

Wow, what a day!

This afternoon, "Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood " author and Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood co-founder Susan Linn agreed to appear in our film, adding authoritative ballast to our emotionally-grounded documentary.

And now this.

Plus, I realized a few days ago that we could still hit the Sundance Film Festival deadline; it's not until next Friday!

So, as I Tweeted just a few minutes ago, "Dear Internets: You believe! Deep and simple really is far more essential than shallow and complex! Thank you!!!"

Really, thank you.

4 comments:

Elizabeth Harper said...

Yea! Congrats on meeting your goal! I'm so looking forward to seeing the completed film.

Linda said...

Never underestimate the power of Twitter! Yay for the film, yay for you and yay for us who will get to see the film! Here's hoping the home stretch goes smoothly for you guys.

flowergirl said...

Congrats!!!! Cannot wait until the film is completed! I have always been a Mister Rogers fan and am saddened on the fact that now the show is only on tv once a week(Even on WQED- his home station). Thank you for supporting and spreading the message of Mister Rogers! Hope everything works out well and the film WILL be great!

Erin said...

I totally missed the deadline to contribute. I can't believe it - I'm so sorry! I went to the page but it looks like it's too late. Argh!!