April 2010
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November 2009
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Your Opinions!
We always like to hear what people have to say about the issues. Gay rights is the civil rights battle of this generation, and we want to hear what your opinions are on the subjects of gay blood & vital organ donation, gay marriage, and many other battles being fought. Give us your thoughts, for or against and we’d love to both hear and share what you have to say.
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INTRODUCTIONS: ELIAS NOUSIOPOULOS
Elias Nousiopoulos is the Production/Post-Production Sound Designer/Mixer of Save A Life. He grew up in New London CT and has been interested in creating art at an early age. Photography was his first medium he used and enjoyed throughout High School, and it was how he got interested in pursing a career in filmmaking. Elias studied film editing and sound design at the School of Visual Arts in...
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RI governor vetoes bill to allow domestic partners...
by Joe Siegel
EDGE New England Editor
Tuesday Nov 10, 2009
Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri vetoed a bill on Tuesday that would have added domestic partners to the list of people authorized under state law to make funeral arrangements for each other.
“This bill represents a distributing trend over the past few years of the incremental erosion of the principles surrounding traditional...
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Please Click Here: Help us with our cause
Please visit our Fiscal Sponsor above and Donate. We offer a tax deduction as we are considered a 501C non-profit thanks again to Independent Film Project!
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Britain Trying to Make A Change!
Britain has just brought up the topic of gay blood donation and trying to evaluate if the law actually still holds any real value, if it had at all. Hopefully they’ll try to make a change and begin what Spain, Italy, and New Zealand have already started!
Check out the article over at the Advocate… Go Britain! (Britain Re-Evaluating)
October 2009
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We're nearly fully operational
Thanks To Adrienne DeTraglia (AdrienneSays) of DeTraglia Designs, we now have our myspace, facebook, twitter, and tumblr fully operational. And with the help of David Paritsky (DavidParitsky.com), they have both helped to create our main website for the film, and it should be up and operational in the near future. We’ve been doing well with gaining fans on our facebook page with over 113...
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Moving Right Along...
Get ready everybody…
Doing some work with the campaign, this week we’re working on getting all of our sites up. We have a freelance photographer, Alexandra S. helping with getting our posters/ flyers/ postcards and other items out. We have a lot in store for the designs and hopefully will have some preview images to show in the coming week.
Also on board is David Paritsky...
ON OUR WAY!!!!
Just wanted to update everyone on our Pledgie.com Fundraising Campaign! We have already raised $650.00 and we still have more people pledging and asking to help out every day! It is so amazing that all of you support us and want to help out any way you can. We hope that we can begin to reach out to more people to create awareness and attempt to reach our goal of $2100.00 before the end of the...
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INTRODUCTIONS: TARA JACOBSON
Producer/Visual Effects Supervisor for Save A Life, Tara Jacobson is a Freelance Digital Artist, specializing in Photography & Video, Production & Post-Production. She grew up in Oswego, a small city in upstate New York on Lake Ontario, known only for the tremendous amount of snowfall each winter. At the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Tara was accepted on the spot during her...
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INTRODUCTIONS: JORDAN BURBANK
Director/Producer of Save A Life, Jordan has been a filmmaker for several years. Graduating from the School of Visual Arts in May of 2009, he has worked on many short films and most recently produced Not For Sale, a short documentary detailing the Supreme Court case of New London v. Kelo, and the home seizures of almost 18 families through eminent domain. Directed by fellow colleague, Elias...
Please Click Here: Help us with our cause →
We have just begun a Pledge drive at Pledgie.com. This sight allows us to obtain donations from anyone who believes in our cause and can help us to achieve our goal of changing the FDA’s law. With this funding we can begin to start major Fundraisers, begin shooting interviews and B-Roll Footage, as well as advance our research and allow us to expand our contacts to reach out to the...
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Welcome to the film!
Hi Everyone, we’ve finally broken ground on the documentary “SAVE A LIFE”. Our goal with this project is to work together to inform people about the FDA’s 1983 MSM Blood Ban, which has deferred gay men from donating blood for life. The film is to show people that the law is out of date and something needs to be done about it. With America only having 5% of the population...