UPDATE:: My goal amount has been made however you can still donate. Any further amounts donated will go towards equipment, and a party afterward for everyone who pledged into that plus advertising for the film. Keep it going and lets make this campaign a legend about the Chelsea too!
As you may have noticed, I have a similar campaign running right now called "Saving the legends of the Chelsea Hotel & becoming one myself"; however I cannot change the amount required to make my goal. I have am starting a new project with the same design. A few things have changed.
I have steadily worked on ideas & understanding the truth in how long this is going to take me to do this. I’m no longer scared & realized I’m more than qualified to do this. I’ve had the chance to explore different areas of film making over the last few months. Having been behind the camera, choreographing, writing story boards and lastly scripts. I am ready. I feel assured. The Chelsea Hotel is home for me. I’ve never walked in anywhere and have been greeted with both attitude & enjoyment. I wouldn’t have it any other way either.
The residents of the Chelsea have the real stories and my goal is to give them each a a camera to film their day to day life for 3 days. During this time I will film & up date with my camera my day to day life as I become an actress, as a more established model past her prime. I’m also going to be showing the side of me I’ve hid most of my life.
HollyWood is fixated up on the tragedies & the stars but what about the people who sit behind the scenes: painting, writing & living? They ARE the legends & what makes the Chelsea the building (dare I just call it that?), in which it is today.
HollyWood tends to just skip over the residents within the hotel unless famous or as I feel, intrudes upon the ones that are “chose” to speak about their life. I want everyone to be themselves and to express their anger, their love & most importantly I’d love to know their uniqueness on why they remain at the Chelsea. Most importantly I want to know their personality and their art(s).
I’m a single mother of two sons. We are are all 3 heavily involved in creating this film together as it speaks to our hearts. The hotel, the famous artists that have written and sang from there, have been apart of our family time spent and many memories created. In a sense I’m preserving our memories but also with this film creating a new one, one that will out live us. Above and beyond creating this film, I want my sons to have the chance to stay there as adults. I want them to have a chance (as well as their generation) to write, sing and live out their artistic desires. I’m frightened that one day this won’t happen, not just for them but also for their generation and the generations after them. That the hotel will be gone because the city will turn it into some horrid tourist attraction or just something people look at as just a relic and not a place designed to still allow artists to go to.
I’ve decided to wait till August so that both children can fly with me to the Chelsea and be apart of the film. I want us to be apart of history together.
I’m creating this film out of the kindness of my heart & soul (the way a film should be created), the passion is to drawl attention to those who’ve forgotten it exists & that you can still become a legend for the right reasons.
My "legend" worthy performances are set and aligned up. I have auditions, modeling shoots and most importantly the overwhelming support from the community in doing this.
Thank you for your time, and I hope you’ll participate. I would ramble further but there’s a character limit & I have a blog