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ICEBOUND - a feature documentary

Help us secure final rights clearance to allow for the distribution of ICEBOUND, a feature documentary about an Alaskan legend: The great Serum Run to Nome, AK.

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ICEBOUND - a feature documentary

ICEBOUND - a feature documentary

ICEBOUND - a feature documentary

ICEBOUND - a feature documentary

ICEBOUND - a feature documentary

Help us secure final rights clearance to allow for the distribution of ICEBOUND, a feature documentary about an Alaskan legend: The great Serum Run to Nome, AK.

Help us secure final rights clearance to allow for the distribution of ICEBOUND, a feature documentary about an Alaskan legend: The great Serum Run to Nome, AK.

Help us secure final rights clearance to allow for the distribution of ICEBOUND, a feature documentary about an Alaskan legend: The great Serum Run to Nome, AK.

Help us secure final rights clearance to allow for the distribution of ICEBOUND, a feature documentary about an Alaskan legend: The great Serum Run to Nome, AK.

Anker Productions
Anker Productions
Anker Productions
Anker Productions
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New York, United States
$876 USD 9 backers
2% of $30,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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This funding campaign helps us to pay the "rights clearances" for ICEBOUND,   which will allow us to use and licence music, images, and archival footage.   These funds are necessary in order to distribute the film and will make it possible for us to undertake our educational outreach initiative.

This is the last stage of our funding for the film itself, and we are so grateful for the support of so many people to date!    

ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE


*******UPDATE******

We are pleased to announce the Alaska Premiere of ICEBOUND, as the opening night gala of the 2013 Anchorage International Film Festival.  Join us on this special evening, as we honor the descendants of the original Serum Run mushers. 

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THE STORY: 

In January 1925, more than thirty men, and at least 150 dogs, battled storms and life threatening cold weather, in a daring relay of antitoxin across the frozen wilderness to save the children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly outbreak of diphtheria.  

In the 90 years since then, the story has been told in many ways -- through the sensationalist tabloid media of the time, through storytelling and oral history passed down from one generation to the next, through numerous children's books, and the Spielberg animated movie, BALTO.  It is a story memorialized with statues and monuments in New York, Cleveland, Anchorage, Seward and elsewhere.   The spirit of the Serum Run is commemorated, in part, by the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.  

The story of the Serum Run is a legend -- an heroic testament to the human spirit, and to the indomitable achievements of the dogs of the far north.  

But beyond the legend, there is a tale that is far more complicated, filled with ironies, with tragedy, and with myth.   The story of ICEBOUND encompasses a layered history that, while uniquely Alaskan, speaks to a fascinating moment in American culture.  

Icebound tells the full story, accurately, for the first time.   Help us preserve this great Alaskan story, in a film that will reach audiences of children and adults around the world. 

After eight years of work, we are almost finished, an effort that has involved hundreds of people -- researchers, crew members, scholars, archivists, mushers, and citizens throughout the state of Alaska, particularly in the villages of Nenana, Galena, Unalakleet and the town of Nome.   We are hoping to find our last funds through this crowd funding effort, funds that will allow us to pay for the rights for archival images, footage, music, proceed with our last finishing processes, color correction, graphics and final mix, and plan for distribution.

It has been difficult to build support to allow the breath of research, and the extensive shooting necessary to bring the story to life.   We are just shy of funds needed. Your generosity will help finish the film, and will allow a broad distribution to enable it to reach a worldwide audience, and ultimately, through a subsequent educational distribution, will bring the story and its nuances to schools throughout the United States.

Thank you for your help. 

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VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE HERE

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     "A breathless adventure story told with sophistication and fascinating detail."

                       STEVE LINDBECK, President, Alaska Public Telecommunications


ICEBOUND tells this true story through the authentic voices of Alaskans, including the last surviving children stricken with Diphtheria, elders from Nome and the Interior villages who were witness to the events, and descendants of the original mushers.  Others who appear include mushers George Attla, Dan Seavey, Howard Farley, and Richard Burmeister, historians Paul Ongtooguk, Stephen Haycox, Dirk Tordoff, Matt Ganley, Joan Antonson, Neal Gabler, Preston Jones, Kevin Keeler, journalists Michael Carey, Dermot Cole, Craig Medred, and many others. The production team also collected rare photographs, footage, and thousands of newspapers articles, in an attempt to separate fact from myth, and tell the full story of this true-life adventure for the first time. 

Now, with the recent addition of our narrator, the extraordinary and incomparable Sir Patrick Stewart, the film is nearing completion.  

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We are grateful to our contributors to date, which include:

The National Endowment for the Humanities,The Rasmuson Foundation, the Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance, The Atwood Foundation, The Alaska Humanities Forum, The Bering Straits Native Corporation, Dr. Mary Totten, The Gottstein Family Foundation, and Gan-A'Yoo Ltd. Native Corporation.

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ICEBOUND is produced and directed by Daniel Anker (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy; Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust; Music from the Inside Out).  It is co-produced by Tiffany Peckosh.   ICEBOUND is written by Daniel Anker and Susan Kim, and edited by Bruce Shaw (The Thin Blue LIne, Ken Burns' The Civil War, Imaginary Witness) and Jean Tsien, a.c.e (Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, Crouching Tiger, Please Vote for Me).  The Cinematographer is Tom Hurwitz, a.s.c (Valentino, the Last Emperor, Liberty, Woodstock, Dancemaker).   Additional Cinematography was done by Tom Pillifant, Joan Churchill and Michael Chin.   Alan Barker was the Sound Recordist.  Additional Alaskan crew includes Line Producer Bob Crockett and Grip/Gaffer Greg Kern, assisted by Gene Boyd.  Aerial photography was by Daniel Zatz.   Tyler Rhodes provided additional camerawork in the town of Nome.   Mushers included Aaron Burmeister, Bill Cotter, Donald Towarek, and Benedikt Beisch.   And more than 50 incredible dogs lent their patience and talent to the project.

The film received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities production grant in 2007.  

Numerous individuals and organizations throughout the state of Alaska have participated and been supportive of the project in a variety of ways, including: Judy Bittner, Paul Brown, Aaron Burmeister, Amanda Byrd, Shirley Cleaver, Terrence Cole, Ruth Coy, Al Crane, Dick Evans, Suzanne Evans, Lanie and Hugh Fleischer,  Matt Ganley, Larry Hausmann, Stephen Haycox, Maggie Halleran, Lori Henry, Sidney Huntington, Midi Johnson, Doug Katchatag, Cussy Kauer, Steven Lindbeck, Bill McCarty, Jr., Yale Metzger, Bruce Merrill, Hannah Moderow, Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan, Paddy Nollner, Mark Nordman, Henry Oyumick, Bruce Parham, Lee Poleske,  Leo Rasmussen, Gerry Riley, Susan Richmond, Chas St. George, Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury, Laura Samuelson, Agnes Sweetsir,  Donald Towarek, Candy Waugaman, Dave Worrell, Gary Zimmerman, Lauren Zwack, and the Alaska Film Office, the Alaska Native Heritage Center, AMIPA, the Nome Museum, the University of Fairbanks Library, the Anchorage Museum, the International Sled Dog Symposium, the Iditarod Trail Committee, the Aurora Inn, the Captain Cook Hotel, Pike's Lodge, The Rough Woods Inn, Sleep Inn of Unalakleet. 

We are grateful to the people of Nome, Unalakleet, Nenana, and Galena, for their unparalleled generosity.



Tax Deductible donations may also be made directly to API Arts and Outreach, a not-for-profit 501c3.  Please click here. 

Confirmation and receipt will be sent by email or mail.  

Checks may be mailed to: 

API ARTS & OUTREACH - ICEBOUND, 18 W 21st Street, Suite 803, NY, NY 10010

OUR COMPANY WEBSITE IS: HERE


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A 'THANK YOU' ON THE WEBSITE

$25 USD
With gratitude, we will include your name on the "Thank You's" page of the film's website.
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INVITE/TICKETS TO SCREENING

$100 USD
We would be glad to provide tickets to a screening in your area. (Please be sure to provide an address). We'll also give you a "thank you" on the website.
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DVD

$150 USD
Once it is available, we will send you a complimentary DVD of the film, autographed if you'd like. We'll also give you a "Thank You" on the film's website. (Be sure to provide your address)
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Vintage Artifacts & Documents

$500 USD
We would be pleased to offer a choice of relics from our research, which include a vintage 1925 "Balto" paperweight, "Balto" postage stamps,and original books. Or a collection of bound facsimiles of rare original documents, images and newspaper articles relating to the Serum Run. (Plus a "thank you" on the website)
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Private Screening

$2,000 USD
A Private Screening in your living room, followed by Q & A with director and members of the production team via SKYPE or in person.
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$10,000 USD
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