New Year Newsletter #9

Happy New Year to our Producers around the world, over 8,800 in 55 Countries! As we move into 2008, we wanted to review our past years progress, and give a quick look ahead as we finally begin post-production!

Road to Oprah Report

We returned from the Road to Oprah with more stories that we can ever tell, thanks to more people than we can ever thank. Over the past 6 months, we raised enough to buy a school bus, converted it to bio-diesel, set up a collaborative tour, and drove 10,000 miles across America to ask Oprah for $1. On our way, we visited 28 states, giving dozens of presentations at various venues from YouTube & Google to skate parks, universities, a Veteran's Home, and street corners -- enlisting over 1,000 new Producers with donations ranging from $1 to $10,000!

Ironically, the day we finally reached Chicago, Oprah was out of the country on an unexpected trip to Africa! Fortunately, our journey really is the destination. :) The good news is, we are now in touch with Oprah's Producers and editing clips from our tour to send them, with plans for another possible tour in the works, so our journey continues! Big thanks to EVERYONE that set up events, gave us a warm meal, a place to stay, or a dollar to keep going!

Check out these Photo Highlights from our trip and Video of our YouTube Presentation! More Video coming soon- Subscribe to our YouTube Chanel to get updates!

Help! Our Bus Needs a New Home!

The Armory Center for the Arts NW Location (where our Road to Oprah Bus has been happily residing) is being torn down! This is unfortunate on many levels, and means our Bus is soon to be homeless. Therefore we are sending out a plea for HELP! We need ideas/contacts/referrals for a new home for our bus. If you know somebody who has a safe place we can park in the LA area, please let us know. Screen Credit will be provided!

Budget Report - $250K Raised

We have now raised over $250,000 in donations and in-kind services! We have put together a BUDGET OVERVIEW for everyone to see how donations have been spent, what we have accomplished, and what remains to be done.

We Have a New Office - Editor and Interns Wanted!

FotoKem has generously donated office space for The 1 Second Film's post-production! Combined with the recent $25K donation from Apple of workstations and editing software, we are finally able to start post-production! This means digitizing and transcribing over 400 hours of our documentary footage. We are also assembling our editing team. If you would like to help transcribe footage (no experience necessary), or if you are an experienced editor and would like to apply to edit our documentary, please contact us!

Fundraising for Editing: $50K Goal!

Our next goal is to raise funds in order to hire a full-time editor for our documentary. We have consulted with seasoned film producers (Stephen Nemeth and Albert Maysles) about the challenges of editing a documentary of this scale; with over 400 hours of footage, our film will take an estimated 12 months to edit and will be a full-time job. A good editor can cost anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000 a week. We estimate our editing will cost $100K (including an assistant editor). We are trying to raise the first half ($50K) as soon as possible to get started! If you can help, please login and donate $1 or more to add to your credit. Every penny really helps!

Top Donors

Big thanks to some of our new top Executive Producers! Michelle Brown who donated $10,000.32, Timothy Peierls who added $1,111.11 to his previous donation for a current total of $2,345.67 - regaining a coveted Top 11 spot, Coffee.net ($850), and Christopher Leps ($801). Generous support like this has really helped make a difference!

Sponsor of the Moment :: VonDutch

Many thanks are due to VonDutch for donating rad shirts for our Road to Oprah tour! The shirts were a big hit. We still have a few shirts left, so if you would like one, just add $20 or more to your producer credit and contact us with your size and mailing address! Outside the US, please add another $5 to cover shipping. Girl's shirts are available too. 1 month limited time offer for our current producers while supplies last! Check our Shwag.

Foundation Name Change :: The Collaboration Foundation

We have officially changed the name of our non-profit from "The 1 Second Foundation" to "The Collaboration Foundation." The new name better reflects the driving mission of this project: collaborative art creating change. The new site will be developed in 2008 and will create a hub for future collaborative works. www.collaborationfoundation.org

3 Things You Can Do to Help Now:

1. Blog about us! Have a blog? Write about The 1 Second Film, why you’re participating, or simply promote yourself as a big time Hollywood Producer!

2. Connect With Your Crew and Participate! Update your 1 Second Film Producer Profile and add new folks (and your favorite celebrity producers) to your crew. Let us know what's going on with you! Share it with a blog, forum, or comment.

3. Link to us! If you’ve got a website, a Myspace page, a Yahoo profile, ANYTHING that’s out there in cyber space, you can add the1secondfilm.com to your favorite links. Bookmark us on del.ici.ous, stumble us, etc. And be sure to link OUT to whatever site you’d like to promote from your 1 Second Film profile as well! Let’s spread the love, and the awareness, cyber style!

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What Next?

We have some very exciting plans for ways to increase involvement and interaction of The 1 Second Film's producer community in 2008 that we will be ready to unveil in the New Year, so stay tuned! Until then, we wish you all a Happy New Year of Peace, Love, and Perfect Moments.

Road to Oprah Sponsors

Production Services: FotoKem ~ Computers: powered by Apple ~ Vinyl Graphics: CrankySigns.com ~ Web Hosting: Pair.com ~ Shirts: VonDutch ~ Art Lovers: Michelle Brown, Travel Lifestyles, DreamMullick.com, Celco ~ Bio-Diesel: Standard-BioDiesel, Piedmont Bio-Fuels, Austin GeoGrowers ~ Special Thanks: Armory Center for the Arts, The Evangenitals, all our producers, friends, and family that helped!