Indiegogo crowdfund is LIVE - runs the month of Octobber, 2024! (click here)
New, this year! Wick named a semi-finalist; Achievement in documentary directing, at Climax Fest, Madrid, Spain, for Silk Finds What He's Looking For.
Our trip to Chile's Atacama Desert is planned for December, 2024! Click the link below to go to the Indiegogo crowdfund. the campaign runs the entire month of October
NATURE. MEDITATION. BEAUTY. ...ENDURANCE?
This project has been awarded From The Heart Productions Fiscal Sponsorship, as well as being listed in their Hot-Films-in-the-Making. We are excited to put this vote of confidence to work with our upcoming crowdfund, coming October 1st. All donations through the Indiegogo crowdfund campaign will filter through From The Heart Productions Fiscal Sponsorship, making them tax deductible.
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
On June 21, 2020, Robert Silk sat in his simple camping chair from sunrise to sunset - 14 hours 27 minutes - in Joshua Tree National Park, merely observing the day as the sun made its way searingly from east to west. This resulted in the award-winning film, Silk Finds What He's Looking for.
Since that time Silk has carried his chair to such far-flung locales as Qatar, Palo Duro Canyon in Texas and even Antarctica (see the Rough Cuts video).
Silk's sitting record is 14 hours and 39 minutes, set in Western Colorado's Bangs Canyon. He has also accomplished day-long sits in Medicine National Forest in Wyoming (13 hours and 18 minutes.), and Will Cather Memorial Prairie last Oct. in Red Cloud, Neb. (11 hours and change)
Silk's efforts to pioneer the sport of sitting (yes, we said the SPORT of sitting - it's ok to laugh) have drawn international media attention, including stories in the London Telegraph, Atlas Obscura, Rome's La Repubblica newspaper, and on Melbourne's Australian Broadcasting radio affiliate to name a few examples.
Silk Finds What He's Looking For won the Award of Recognition at Impact Docs Awards. It was an official selection at Roma Cinema Doc and the FlickFair on-demand festival. As a selection of FlickFair - for which it was recruited to a part of - the film spent the month of January, 2022 on Apple TV, Roku TV, Fire TV, and other popular streaming services.
"Why?" you might ask.
To quote Silk himself, "Does everything have to have a reason?"
So, we ask, why not?
Join the Indiegogo crowdfund coming October 1st.
Very large donations - through the upcoming crowdfund - will be awarded an Associate Producer Credit, in the film credits, as well as on IMDb. All donations will be awarded mention in the credits, based on the donor's preferences.
Peter Wick
Robert Silk
Marceline De Angelis
Azzurri Productions