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Filmmaker Christopher Salmon, originally from Vernon, is embarking on an ambitious project with his latest short film, The Price.
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If everything goes his way, on Wednesday Christopher Salmon will have the budget to make his short film project a reality – and will have made Internet history along the way. Salmon, a filmmaker who has long worked in the medium of computer graphic imagery, is attempting to raise the entire amount on a popular crowd-funding website kickstarter.com for his latest short film, The Price, by celebrated and award-winning author Neil Gaiman. According to their website: “Kickstarter. com is a new way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors... (and) is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where
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No other project has, to date, set a target this high. “There were lengthy discussions between myself and my coproducer Nathaniel Hansen on exactly ‘how much’ we should try and raise,” said Salmon.
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