I also wanted to tell you a bit more about the wonderful things that's been happening on the Support Site:
As you know we had a live chat with Terry Gilliam on July 24th. The chat was great, Terry was so nice and generous with his answers to our questions about the movie and Heath, he thanked all of us for our support and at the end of the chat revealed that he's hoping to announce the US distributor soon. The transcript of the chat is available on the Support Site for all of you to read, here is the link:
http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/gilliam_chat_transx.
Terry is also going to be the judge in our fan video contest! Details about the contest can be found on the homepage and there are great prizes for the winners, with the first prize being a special gift from Terry himself. He's so kind to give us his time and support, and it's not every day that your home-made video is being viewed and awarded by a world-wide famous director with a 40 years career of filmmaking!! I still can't believe that...
We have also been contacted by the BFI (British Film Institute), a famous and distinguished organization, which led to another great contest on the Support Site: During the month of August the BFI will have special screenings of all of Terry Gilliam's movies in different locations in London, in order to promote the impending release of Dr. Parnassus. The first 5 members who will answer correctly to the Terry Gilliam Trivia on our hompage will each get two tickets from the BFI to see the movie of their choice in one of those special screenings. 4 winners have already been announced and I'm just sorry I don't live in London!!! I'd LOVE to see The Brothers Grimm on the big screen, since I didn't know who Heath was back when it's been released. Anyway, I think this contest is so exciting mainly because of our collaboration with the BFI, and they were the ones to contact us which means they learned about our site and our global campaign and wanted to support us. It's such an honour I'm just blown away.
Finally, the Support Site is designing a t-shirt called “Parnassus For The Masses” to raise global awareness and support The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus, that you can all order. We want to follow the tradition that Terry and all the actors (Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell & Jude Law) set for completing Heath Ledger’s final film as an act of love from them and $5 from the sale of every t-shirt will be donated to the Heath Ledger Scholarship which was created by Heath’s friends and family after his death to help aspiring Australian actors. After the sale of the shirts has ended, that money will be turned over to the Australians In Film as a gift from the fans and supporters of this film in his honor. THE SUPPORT SITE WILL MAKE NO PROFIT FROM THE SALE OF THESE T-SHIRTS. ALL COST WILL BE THE COST OF THE T-SHIRT WHICH INCLUDES THE DONATION TO THE SCHOLARSHIP AND SHIPPING. I will not post any link on this thread since it is against our site's policy to post any commercial links, but those of you who are interested in getting a shirt just keep an eye on the Suppost Site homepage as it will be posted there.
Of course, I want to remind you all that the fans photo campaign is still on, even my mom and dad agreed to take photos.
We've collected 70 photos so far, well done everybody! Don't be shy to recruit your friends and family, every photo is greatly appreciated.
Let's get the world to see this movie. Maybe we'll even get another award for Heath...
