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Box Elder Pitch Clip
(Brock and Kamau explain what's going on with Box Elder these days, and how you can help.)
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Box Elder follows four best friends through their last years of college. Dependent on their parents financially, and on each other emotionally, they spend their time sleeping in, hanging out, and eating lots of sandwiches. Using break-ups and re-occurring scholastic failures to impose a quarter-life crisis, they take turns postponing responsibility, avoiding accountability, and looking for someone or something to substantiate their lives, all the while hedging their bets and mastering the art of treading water and getting away with it.
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Box Elder Website
(Official Box Elder Website.)
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Box Elder Press
(Press section of the Box Elder Website)
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Filmmaker Magazine article
(An article about Todd Sklar and his unique distribution model from Filmmaker Magazine.)
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Tour de FOURS: Episode #4
(As the tour hits San Francisco, the boys hit the streets harder than ever in an attempt to pack a full house. They look everywhere for a heart, a hand to hold on to, and a face of somebody who needs you. Everywhere Rennie looks, he just finds trouble.)
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Range Life and the Great American Indie Film Tour.
(In May 2008, Time Warner announced their plan to pull the plug on Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures in a measure to cut costs. Such grim developments inevitably breed serious doubts and anxieties about the future of independent film distribution, but Todd Sklar’s Range Life Entertainment is striking back with a bold initiative: a cross-country indie film tour!)
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Indie Film on Tour: Todd Sklar on Range Life
(Sklar first went on tour last year with his own “movie about dudes being dudes,” Box Elder. Elder skipped the traditional festival route: after a super successful run at the Ragtag Cinema in Columbia, Missouri (a cinema-friendly college town and home of the True/False Film Festival), Sklar and his crew got in a van and hand-delivered the film to 30 cities, punk rock road trip style.)
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Filmmakers Taking Their Movies 'On Tour' Rock Band-Style
(Sklar and his pals took Box Elder on the road, screening in over 30 markets, most of them college towns like Columbia. They sold nearly 10,000 tickets, using only old-school, grass roots marketing techniques like handing out fliers and hosting on-campus events. That first tour went so well that Sklar and his friends decided to start a niche-oriented distribution company called Range Life Entertainment.)
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Slacker Bliss!
(... it’s particularly impressive to witness the exploits of Todd Sklar and his Range Life Entertainment company, who have created a mini film tour playing Sklar’s own current movie, college slacker comedy Box Elder...)
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On the bus
(Four filmmakers take their work on tour. And tonight's their last stop in San Francisco. When a band completes an album, they take to the road. And when you’re a rockstar filmmaker like Todd Sklar—you do the same. )
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Peace, love, and sandwiches.
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$10
(Dude)
Anyone who donates $10 will be sent a link to a secret website where you can buy Box Elder DVDs for half price. Plus free admission if Box Elder screens in a city near you.
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$50
(Bro)
Anyone who donates $50 will get everything mentioned above, plus a signed copy of the Box Elder DVD in the mail, a Box Elder postcard and an awesome Box Elder condom (while supplies last). Plus we will love you forever.
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$100
(Dude-Bro)
Anyone donating $100 or more will get everything mentioned above, plus either Todd or Rennie (or both) will call you on your birthday. And if we are ever in the same city as you we will buy you a cold beer and a sandwich.
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We still owe several thousand dollars to pay for the music rights for all of the songs in the film. We are hoping that we will sell enough DVDs to be able to pay for the music, but we can't do it alone.
We are planning to launch a marketing effort beginning in August and continuing through the end of the year, to raise awareness about the film and sell more DVDs.
In a nutshell, this marketing plan will consist of creating a new trailer, using Facebook and Google ads to promote the film online, and a tour in which the film will screen in theaters around the country this fall.
Obviously all of these things cost money, and that's where your donation money will help. Any amount will be greatly appreciated, but you can have access to the perks listed below by donating the amount listed next to each one.
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