The Café

A project in Boston, MA by Terrence Masson and Dana Boadway Masson
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To court his muse, an artist must first outsmart her dog.
Backers: 140
Average Pledge Per Backer: $55

Funded: $7,764 of $40,000
Dates: Jul 10th -> Aug 9th (30 days)
Project By: Terrence Masson and Dana Boadway Masson
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Latest News

VIDEO UPDATE: "4min about our Director"

August 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Café friends and fans! We've made a special video for you to get to know our Director, her background and influences and why she is passionate about animation. We are trying hard to press forward and keep spreading the word with less then 3... (Read More)

Success by the numbers - 'SPLAIN IT TO ME!

July 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Let's run the numbers folks!  1297 people have watched the pitch video .. 72 people have backed the project with (almost) $4500 pledged so far. If the other 1225 people would just pledge $29 each we would hit our goal of $40,000 ... for $30 you get... (Read More)

Media alert! Let's have a REALLY BIG push folks!

July 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Following our great surprise article on AWN last week ...  http://www.awn.com/news/cartoons/cafe-launches-funding-campaign I've arranged for a LIVE RADIO interview about The Café and the Kickstarter campaign for Wed. August 7th with local Boston... (Read More)

Animation VIDEO update coming! Questions?

July 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Fans, followers and soon to be converts ... DANA MASSON our Director is preparing a VIDEO UPDATE talking with her animators about (you guessed it!) The Café's ANIMATION.  She's in LA right now doing professional animator stuff :) so you've got... (Read More)

Updated VIDEO!

July 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey fans ... we've updated the main VIDEO to make is just a little tighter (we hope), and tweaked the main page content too ... please check it out and let us know what you think. We've had almost 800 people watch the video so far, how great is that!... (Read More)

AWN article on The Café

July 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Did everyone see the great promo article AWN published on our film the other day? http://www.awn.com/news/cartoons/cafe-launches-funding-campaign The good word is spreading fast! Will YOU be the FIRST to spread the word to your friends!? Terrence... (Read More)

"What have we done? What do we need to do?"

July 14th - via: kickstarter.com
A major video update folks ... our first of many to come! Check this 4 min message PACKED with info from our Director and Producer about just what we've been doing these last few years to get us to this point ... what do we have left to do and most... (Read More)

PLEDGE PIN!??

July 14th - via: kickstarter.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9_EiSaNw3Q  "A P-PLEDGE P-PIN!? ON YOUR UNIFORM!?" Well, we don't have pledge pins BUT we need YOU to get 10 of your friends to hit our pledge BUTTON ... Dana and I promise we won't scream in your face AND we will be... (Read More)

Big milestone .. First $1000 down!

July 12th - via: kickstarter.com
We got the Small Dog to HOWL with happiness! It may not seem like much, but boy does every $5 (or $100!) count ... we've passed the $1000 mark so this is the first of many THANK YOU notes to be going out from Dana and myself. If you love this... (Read More)

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