Just Crowdfund the $&*# Movie!: Grant Me a Wish

By Jayce Bartok
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/just_crowdfund_the_movie_grant_me_a_wish_tiny_dancer_wim_wenders_pina_20120/
The first movie of 2012 that I saw in theaters was Pina, a stunning 3-D documentary tribute to famed German choreographer Pina Bausch, directed by an idol of mine, Wim Wenders. The poster for Pina reads “Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost,” so Tiffany, Tiny Dancer’s DP Kate Phelan and I figured it was mandatory viewing. While I waited in line at the IFC Center screening in New York City to meet Mr. Wenders, who was on hand sign books and participate in a Q&A, I held a handful of poster cards for Tiny Dancer. It was my hope that he would go to our site and watch our trailer, especially since he’s been quoted in interviews about Pina as saying he’s finally cracked the solution to filming dance in its truest, most visceral form... by using 3-D cameras. I wanted to say to him: “Hey, Wim, we used this GoPro camera and had our lead dancer, Katherine Crockett, hold it in her hand, and it’s pretty cool, Wim!”