Gillian Leahy and Terry Leahy

BAXTER AND ME is a verified NTRO output and a prizewinning feature documentary.  It won best documentary script and the Australian Writers Guild Awards and has now been nominated for 2 other prizes and has screened at the Sydney Film Festival amongst others.   It is now starting it's impact journey.  Entering festivals is a costly business as entries cost between $30- $100 (USD).   I want to choose carefully which festivals I send it to.  Your support will help me reach a larger international audience and cause the film to have a greater impact.  Since its principal aim to increase empathy for dogs and the dog/human relationship I am sure many of you will want to support it with some of your dollars.  I will be grateful if you can and those who donate over $150.00 will receive a free Baxter and Me DVD.  (Note that my Pozible account has my brother on it from a previous campaign.  He is not involved in this campaign)

"Baxter and Me opens with a series of still lives—of a house and its objects, a sleeping woman with a large brown dog curled up on top of the covers, molded into the curves she makes, or he makes, the curves they make. The early morning sounds of birds on the sound track give way to a woman’s voice: “Once upon a time dogs came in from the woods. They traded their freedom for food and shelter. And here I am living with a big brown beast in my bedroom.” Baxter wakes and snuffles and nudges the woman, kisses her awake, tickly kisses that she dodges and laughingly returns. You can feel the zest and tingle. Gillian Leahy once made a film called My Life Without Steve and in some senses Baxter and Me is the sequel that could be called “My Life With Dogs” since it narrates, via the current pairing, every dog that Gill has ever lived with, and where “Dogs” could be wryly considered a noun that incorporates “Men,” since it includes some of the men she has had relationships with. The voice over speculates on various aspects of the intermingling of humans and dogs, on the imbalance of the relationship as well as the pleasures, on authority and subservience. She wonders, at one stage, whether Baxter loves her or if he is just acting."  (Stern, L. The Cine-Files, issue 10 (spring 2016))

Festival entries cost between $30.00 (USD) and $100.00 (USD).   I will carefully select festivals to enter where I have the best chance of selection.  If I reach my target ($1,000.00) that is 10 - 15 festivlas I can enter.  If it's more than the target  the number I can enter will go up proportionally.  The more entries I can afford the more chances of being selected.

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