Here some more exciting news from Sandgrains!
From the 26th of May until the 2nd of June the film will be at the Krakow Film Market, the industry section of the Krakow Film Festival!
We will be soon traveling to Poland!!!
Jordie is going to promote the film to Central and Eastern European broadcasters and distribution agents.
Anyone around that is attending as well?
Looking forward to meet you at the networking drinks with a nice polish beer in our hand :-)

We have been invited to list Sandgrains in the Media Library of the Visions du Réel Documentary Film Festival in Switzerland. This event is one of the major documentary film markets in Europe and even though we have not been selected to screen the film at the actual festival we are very hopeful that the room dedicated to the Doc Outlook Market, where commissioners and buyers can watch a list of 350 noteworthy documentaries, can lead to something interesting.
The festival runs from the 19th until the 26th of April in Nyon, on the shores of Lake Geneve and Jordie will be going to represent Matchbox.
Here you can check out the page the festival has dedicated to our project.

Come see Porters of the Inca Trail in London!

The screening is at SOAS through Native Spirit Film Festival on Friday the 19th of October at 8.15pm. 

SOAS is located at Thornhaugh Street, WC1H 0XG, London, and the festival programme can be foud here. Hope to see you there!

Come to the Sandgrains event @ Feng Sushi, Borough Market, on Sunday the 22nd between 3.30 and 5.30pm! There will be sneak previews of unreleased footage, a photoexhibition of Cape Verdean sand miners, and of course some sustainably sourced sushi. 

http://www.fengsushi.co.uk/time-for-tea/win-tickets-to-the-preview-of-sandgrains/

Article in Swedish on crowdfunding by Gabriel Manrique, published in Fria Tidningen on the 7th of February 2012. 

http://www.fria.nu/artikel/91838

Francesca Tosarelli and Jordie Montevecchi went to Italy to attend a live crowdfunding event at Fattoria Walden where they introduced the work of Matchbox Media Collective to a specially invited Italian audience.

A magnificent buffet was organized for the more than 80 people attending the event and we discussed the concept of crowdfunding and new ways of creating content.

Thanks to to the work of Dario, Dagmar, Peppe, Giuseppina, Jenny, Judith and Julia we we managed to raise over 1000 euros!

We just came back from a weekend of production in Sweden!
We met and spent an evening with Jose', our main character. We watched through old videotapes he has been filming when going back to Cape Verde in the last years. We run through the evening drinking cape verdean grog and dreaming of being back soon...

In the program were two shoots, one on at Heden football greens and another at a professional game between Assyriska FC and Jönköping in Ruddalen. We have beed joined by Robin Westerström as second camera and Linnea Ericsson as audio recordist, thanks very much to them!
New footage for the trailer, with a new interview of Jose'!
Soon to be seen in the film's website!

Crowdsourcing means looking for talent and skills in the crowd. An example is the flyer that was effctively used at the Sheffield Doc/Fest for promoting Sandgrains. Many thanks to graphic designer Lorenzo Dzieduszycki for helping out!

We now also have a team of dedicated and crowdsourced researchers working on finding core audiences and implementing the data for marketing Sandgrains to funders.

We've crowdsourced subtitles for the Sandgrains trailer, now in Danish, Turkish, English, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish! All done through the wonderful Universal Subtitles app that allows for anyone to translate into their language directly on the Sandgrains Home page. Do you speak Japanese? Finnish? Translate our trailer! Universal Subtitles is fun and easy to use.

Below is a screenshot of the app on our home page.

We finally arrived in Sheffield for the Doc/Fest and are entering the networking world!

We woke up with a nice surprise as we have been also selected to present the film at Frontline's Club Matchmaking Event at the festival. So we will have another opportunity to be on stage to present the project!!!

Tomorrow we leave for Sheffield with butterflies crowding our bellies ahead of the upcoming Crowdfunding Pitch. We compete against four other projects and the vote is decided online at www.cubanhat.tv on Saturday the 11th between 4 and 6 pm. 

Looking forward to a week of intense networking and an abundance of documentaries!