St. Elizabeth Documentary News
This is the latest newsletter on the documentary I have sent out by e-mail. If you interested in getting on the list for these notices, please let me know at editor@taucrossbooks.com. Please not also that the PayPal set-up has now been fixed, so that when you donate at the documentary’s website, the extra $3.75 for shipping isn’t added any longer.
Dear Friends,
I’m happy to say that the first showing of a rough cut of A Woman For Our Time: St. Elizabeth of Hungary on June 1 went very well. Some 80 people attended the screening at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Melville, and there was very enthusiastic applause and much comment afterward. This is a great way to help toward finalizing the editing, because I now know what works and what doesn’t. The temporary narration for the showing was provided by an actress friend of mine, who agreed to donate her services at short notice.
There is still a lot to be done not only for the final editing, but completion of narration in different voices, final music score and preparing subtitle tracks, as well as making copies for distribution. Not to mention the outstanding bills for photo and video rights.
Unfortunately, I have come to a complete standstill on the financial side. A very generous donation from a Franciscan friend helped me get a much needed transfer of some of our original HDV tapes to disk (the original transfer had been lost, and the only thing left was the bad DVD version that caused all sorts of trouble). Because the tapes from Rome used an older camera, a camera I couldn’t seem to rent anywhere, I had to go to a video house to have them do the transfer; in all that cost $750.00.
So once again, I’d like to urge people who are interested in the film to make a donation. You can donate HERE, using your Paypal account or credit or debit card.
Or you can send a check or money order to Lori Pieper, Tau Cross Books and Media, 30 W. 190th St., Apt. 6N, Bronx, NY 10468. If you donate $10 or more, you will get a free copy of the DVD. Please be sure to include your name and mailing address. I’m hoping this will give me the last push necessary to put the film out.
In a short time, I hope to put one last short trailer on YouTube, using some of the beautiful recreation footage of Elizabeth’s life we shot last fall in LA. It will also include a bit from Elizabeth’s childhood I shot in May in Queens, with little Isabel Mogollon playing Elizabeth.
And also hopefully I will soon be able to announce the distribution date.
Please keep reading these updates to learn of future showings. If you are in the New York area and are interested in having a showing in your church, school, SFO fraternity, etc. — anywhere that has a TV and DVD player, please let me know.
Thanks you for your patience, especially all those who have donated so generously. May God, St. Francis and St. Elizabeth bless you.
Lori Pieper, SFO
