MAY NEWS | Love Cemetery Doc

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May 11, 2023

Dear Friends,

Resurrecting Love is a feature length documentary film about race, reconciliation and "keeping on keeping on":

We are excited to tell you that we are HALFWAY HOME in our attempt to raise the money to finish Resurrecting Love. At the beginning of April we began a last-step campaign to raise the needed remaining $75,000. We now have raised, in a month and 10 days, 50% of that figure! It was a result of an extended outreach campaign which included multiple people asking us to see the present version of the film: one with only temporary music, archival footage and sound effects. We are being told that we MUST finish, what we have is worth it.

Please read on if you have not yet asked to see the film and are willing to consider hosting a screening for friends in your living room or some other convenient site.

A WATCH PARTY IN YOUR HOME:

We are proud of the film in its current cut. Those who have seen it are moved by it.

We’d love you to see the whole movie. Will you host a screening of the film in your home for 10-20 of your friends who might be able to contribute toward our work's completion? I'd be glad to send you a preview link so you can see what we have. It is inspirational, we think. Then, after you've experienced it yourself, we invite you to screen for your friends in your living room. You would be giving them a Premier of our movie. I have done this with other documentary projects on which I have worked and have found them immensely successful. And fun.

The plan:

Request a link to the movie. Watch it, then set up a date from until Mid-June and invite friends. Try to get 20 friends. Tell them it is an exciting documentary about race and reconciliation you have been supporting. Ask them to bring their smart phones.
We then send you a link to the movie which you can screen on your big screen television set from your computer. (If you don’t know how to do that, we can help you.)
You encourage a short discussion afterwards.
Then, you have them bring out their phones and go to our website. There they can click the donate now button and you can sit there while they make a contribution.
Encourage them to host a screening of their own in their homes.
Thank them and send them on their ways.
Connect us with them by sending us their names and email addresses so we can thank them personally.

Get in touch with us below to arrange for your viewing of the film .

Our producer/writer China Galland has recently done a very interesting interview on a podcast hosted by community activist Anasuya Isaacs. I thought you might want to watch it. Fifteen minutes in duration, it tells you most eveything you need to know about the why and how of the making of Resurrecing Love, the movie. I was inspired by the discussion.

If you'd care to, you can make a donation to help us finish the film's post production.

Or, if you prefer not to contribute via credit card or the other digital options, you can donate by check made payable to our fiscal agent: "Fractured Atlas" and snail mailed to me: Barry Opper, 9620 Clybourn Ave, Sun Valley, CA 91352. Note "for Resurrecting Love" in the memo area on your check. (Please make sure "Fractured Atlas" is on the "pay to the order of" line, not Resurrecting Love.) All contributions made on our behalf are tax-deductible.

Black cemeteries have been cut up, paved over, used for cattle grazing, turned into playgrounds and parking lots, and drowned in man-made reservoirs. The fight to save them seems as difficult today as it was 110 years ago when Della Love first donated the Love Cemetery property. However, our film expands beyond this one cemetery in East Texas into an inspiring reflection on the power of the people and the importance of "keeping on keeping on."

For more information about the film, click to our HOME page.

Thank you for your interest, help and support.

Barry Opper

Producer

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