1st pearl jam show was incredible. Special thanks go out to kelly for being excellent PJ company and driving…. More details on that later…….but first:
The lastest update from Niles about his amazing Chacabuco documentary…
I’m leaving this coming monday, the 22nd for Chacabuco, to shoot the documentary and the project is really evolving! Here is a little update on what’s been happening:
Last week I interviewed two concentration camp survivors from Chacabuco. They had been in the camp for one year between 1973 and 1974. Both men are now in their 70s, one of them spent 2 years in 6 different concentration camps in Chile and was then exiled to Panamal until 1990. It was an incredible experience interviewing them- painful and awakening. Both men were so grateful to be interviewed, we spoke for about 3 hours all in all. And by the end of the interview they told me they wanted to come with Will (a friend who is coming with me) and I to Chacabuco. They are going to meet us there on May 24thand 25th and return to Chacabuco for the first time since their incarceration there! I was dumbfounded, and still am really.
“The men are going to pay for their own tickets since the amount of funding I’ve gotten so far is just enough to get the project on its feet. I have enough to film it and get there… so Will and I are going by bus, cutting costs… but we need to at least make the old budget goal of $1,400 to be able to reimburse the tickets for these two men, it is the least we can do for them!
Please visit the website
http://www.chacabuco.org/support.htm to support the project with whatever donation you can muster up (really, anything is appreciated even $5 or $10). All who donate will get a credit in the film (if you don’t have a problem with it of course, if you want to remain anonymous just let me know). Time is running out, less than a week left so hurry! AND THANK YOU! Check out the article in the Santiago Times here:
http://www.tcgnews.com/santiagotimes/index.php?nav\u003dstory &story_id\u003d11248&topic_id\u003d1 And keep updated by checking out the blog which is updated 2 or 3 times a week. The men are going to pay for their own tickets since the amount of funding I’ve gotten so far is just enough to get the project on its feet. I have enough to film it and get there… so Will and I are going by bus, cutting costs… but we need to at least make the old budget goal of $1,400 to be able to reimburse the tickets for these two men, it is the least we can do for them!
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Ever wanted to help make a movie but just never had the time? Here’s your chance! My dear friend Niles, whom I first met in Santa Cruz and had many adventures with is getting ready to shoot an amazing piece in Chile. I went to Niles’s’s’s wedding in January, and while there he started telling us about an amazing abandoned village he stumbled across while traveling for a previous piece in Chile. Chacabuco is a deserted mining town in Northern Chile that was used as a concentration camp during the Pinochet regime. After Niles recounted his story and it became apparent how important a place Chacabuco was in Chilean history, I immediately pledged $100 if it would help him make the documentary happen. For the full story, checkout the full details of the project at http://www.chacabuco.org/.
If you want to support this amazing project you can make a donation HERE.
It doesn’t take much, just $5 or $10 will go a long way to helping him reach his budgetary needs!
Niles will be traveling with another friend, Will Sherman, who’s blog you can check out here: http://c.hileno.com/
Help preserve history and make this film happen! Niles is an amazing filmmaker and individual, check out some of his previous work at http://www.lanina.cl/
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