Help Wolf Price finish his film
By STEPHEN D. GROSS / Guerneville Correspondent
Forestville resident Wolf Price will make several appearances in Guerneville this month to promote his latest project, a film about the women of Nepal called “Within Four Walls.” Price is trying to get the money to finish the film through Kickstarter, working against a 12:12 a.m. Dec. 26 deadline for contributions.
At 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12, he will read from his travel book, “Indie Expeditions,” at Guerneville’s River Reader, 16355 Main St. And from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 20, he will be at the Rainbow Cattle Company, 16220 Main St., for the River Sister’s weekly Give-Back Tuesday.
For more information about his film project, or to contribute, visit his Kickstarter page.
Price said he was raised by artists in Silicon Valley and, at 17, set out on a seven-year global exploration “to gain knowledge. My Goal in life is walk a unique path while retaining a strong influence from elders and other teachers. From living this way I hope to inspire people about the world of possibilities through a broad range of progressive multimedia.”
For his film about Nepal, he spent two months traveling throughout the country to highlight the conditions of 60 families living in a remote village. During that time he documented the evolving status of Nepali womens.
The aim of the film, says Price, “is to shed light into a variety of subjects. Primarily the realities of women’s struggles in Nepal which are very complex, sometimes progressive but often horrific. I would like the film to connect the viewer with these people and show their lifestyles and exceptional spirit.”
He also “would like to demonstrate what can be done by one person about these types of problems”. The project began with a $500 donation, which enabled Price “to host a party for all 60 wives from a small village near Nagarkot.”
The money covered food, transportation and equipment and, says Price, “the party was a huge success, despite the fact that the husbands, at the last minute, prevented their wives from bringing the homemade rice whiskey.”
Price calls the women’s “day of freedom picnic” the inspiration for his film. “The older generation will never be saved, while the new generation of women are coming into a recently turned communist government,” he said. “This new institution educates women and treats them equally. Therefore this excited new generation is growing up to be the prodigy’s of tomorrow who are hungry for education and change.”
Intending to honor the town’s women, Price and his friend Dhurba interviewed two women, spoke to village elders and ended up filming a wedding in a neighboring village, which led to detailed discussions about the situation women young and old face in Nepal.
Price believes his 90-minute film will help two local girls get into medical school. “I know that the girls will be very enthusiastic to participate/assist the fundraising in an ongoing way,” says Price. “Ideally this grant giving would be the end of the movie and the movie would make an ongoing commitment to fund the education of the older sister and then younger sister to get the education they want.
Wolf Price and friends
“They told me on camera that they can’t get a good education because their family doesn’t have the resources.”
Additionally the collaboration “will be a connection for both sides – the West and the women in Nepal. I find that people in Asia tend to appreciate the opportunity to get connected through modern forms of communication, that is why the level of local participation was so strong to make this film.”
Wolf and his projects have been sponsored by Inter-Nation Cultural Foundation – Hawaii , Jungle Digital – Palo Alto, SmugMug – Mountain View, Bay Photo – Santa Cruz.
New York-based Kickstarter calls itself “the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects,” connecting potential donors with artists involved in music, film, art, technology, design, food and publishing ventures.
One of new set of fundraising platforms dubbed “crowdfunding,” Kickstarter circumvents traditional avenues of investment by having funds donated by the general public. People must apply to Kickstarter in order to have a project posted on the site, and the collective provides guidelines[ on what types of projects will be accepted. Project owners choose a deadline and a target minimum of funds to raise (often money pledged by donors is collected using Amazon). But if the target amount is not gathered by the deadline, no funds are collected.
Kickstarter was founded in April 2009 by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler and has raised $75 million dollars for over 10,000 projects since its inception. The project success rate is 44%.
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