Octavia:Elegy for a Vampire
A project in New York, NY by Dennis Leroy Kangalee000days
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Imagine if Billie Holiday was a vampire, had a punk band, and struggled with that mighty question: how can I fix the world's problems?
Backers: 144
Average Pledge Per Backer: $49
Funded: $7,072 of $25,000
Dates: Dec 15th -> Jan 17th (33 days)
Project By: Dennis Leroy Kangalee
Backers: 144
Average Pledge Per Backer: $49
Funded: $7,072 of $25,000
Dates: Dec 15th -> Jan 17th (33 days)
Project By: Dennis Leroy Kangalee
$7,072
current pledge level
Last Updated: January 17 @ 12:01 -0500 GMT
28%
of goal
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Latest News
With every ending comes a new beginning... 
January 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Our campaign is coming to a close and I want to thank everyone who so effortlessly and unabashedly shared our Kickstarter link and teaser and prompted others to do the same. And, of course, those of you who gave money – no matter the amount, it all... (Read More)
Speculative Arts & Social Justice
January 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
I am very honored to have been invited by Professor Ruha Benjamin to participate in this revolutionary and educational symposium to discuss Octavia: Elegy For A Vampire at Princeton University in September as part of the event Ferguson is the Future:... (Read More)
Octavia & The Black Female Character
January 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
It is unfortunate that within the wide prism of cinema that Black women have had so little opportunity to reveal nuance, ornateness, and strangeness of their own lives - in whatever circumstance they are rendered in. I have spoken and written at... (Read More)
Re-defining Blood and Guitars...
December 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Blood is such a huge part of the vampire mythos, and obviously a staple of the addiction lore -- its meanings abound in numerous interpretations, it holds different definitions depending on who is telling the story and what the context exactly is.... (Read More)
Beckett, Holiday, Nosferatu, Jusepe de Ribera and Spector showed up in a dream...
December 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Jusepe de Ribera's "The Penitent Magdalen", SAMUEL BECKETT's "Endgame," Ronnie Spector, Billie Holiday, and Nosferatu himself. They showed up in a dream. They were all clinging to the fringes of Harriet Tubman's long train. I couldn't tell if I was... (Read More)
Sometimes consciousness is a burden...
December 19th - via: kickstarter.com
If you can’t drink another man’s blood to survive, you must drink your own. At least you know where your own blood has been. In a capitalist society, we are all forced in one way or another to be vampires. And that is part of the horror I want to... (Read More)
Octavia: Elegy for a Vampire Indiewire Article
December 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Imagine Billie Holiday as a Vampire, w/ a Punk Band, Consumed w/ Fixing the World's Problems... (Fundraising!) by Tambay A. Obenson That's the set up, which I'm sure got you're attention! I'll be brief, in the interest of time, and also given that... (Read More)
Shooting the Teaser
December 15th - via: kickstarter.com
A lot of things happen while making a film and all you can do is expect the unexpected, be ready for anything. In our case, it was a freezing temperature that we didn't anticipate. Or rather, the wind that cut through the underpass below the... (Read More)
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