T minus 22 Days (and counting)...

This is a not for profit project for school credit. We will be having a final project of a full documentary that will be hosted free online and submitted to film festivals. It is also a hope to have free or at cost DVDs to be distributed for educational purposes. Due to the nature of this project and my status as a college student "surviving" on financial aid and loans while raising my daughter on my own, this is a call to have some help supporting this timely project. Every little bit helps!!

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This is our current project status of what we still need at this point (11:50am on the 23rd of July), I will be updating this blog as we get each item addressed. We appreciate any help in getting this done! Essential items are noted with a *

We need:
- 2 man ultralight tent
- two sleeping pads (ala camping style, like Thermarest)
- Coleman or like propane/gas camping stove *
- gutter mount roof rack for car (Thule or Yakima) *
- bike attachments for roof rack *
- cargo pod for roof rack
- padded backpack for 13" laptop, camera and gear *
- wireless lapel mic *
- Rode videomic shotgun mic attachment
- 1 or 2 terabyte external hard drive *
- extra 16gig SD memory cards *
- spare battery for Canon Vixia HF100 *
- food suitable for traveling *
- AAA membership / insurance *
- Veggie oil 2 tank conversion (kit or homemade) *
- Better quality cell phone with unlimited plan
- Satellite internet connection for MacBook

We welcome loans of goods to be returned at end of trip, gifts of goods, sponsorships by socially and environmentally conscious businesses in return for advertising on www.jessicaandolivia.com, cash donations to our PayPal account (jessicaandolivia@gmail.com) on the website or mailed to my parent's address (contact for info, if you would like the funds earmarked for a certain purpose let me know) or...

This is hard to ask, especially during a time when our economy is uncertain and many are facing donor fatigue with election season fast approaching. However, if we weren't facing so many uncertainties there would be no need for someone to undertake a project like this. We want to show you everything from new innovations, interviews, the Democratic National Convention, grassroots movements... you name it... from coast to coast and from the North to the South, from a non-biased standpoint not being currently conveyed by our media. So many stories are not being told, including how we are going to save the middle class, rebuild our economy and address issues of climate change and environmental degradation.

This is a once in a life time opportunity for all of us. Please join my daughter and I in making this documentary happen.






Note: in process of putting together full grant proposal. Will have it posted soon (tonight?), including complete budget, methods, objectives... if interested please request one at jessicaandolivia@gmail.com.