Glo Outreach Team has started an outreach campaign.

We have a new edited video for our fundraising page, a new outreach team to tell people about our film and new fundraising campaigns in the works!

The next blog will lay out the new campaign to raise funds + gain support. So stay tuned and DONATE,
tell your friends to DONATE (any amount), and check out the
rewards you can get, depending on how you donate.

From the entire Glo Team, we appreciate your continued support!!

Glo is exploring the crew presently.

We are embarking on a whole new adventure - the actual shoot, as we wind down final casting.

-Glo Team

The Choreographer on Glo

Simone Sobers who will choreograph dancers on the film is an extraordinary dancer and choreographer. She is involved in several projects, including Operation Rogue: Women of Color Going Global. See more here: http://www.rockethub.com/projects/6121-operation-rogue-women-of-color-going-global

Simone Sobers Bio

Simone Sobers born in London, England received her dance training in Miami, Florida at Edwin Holland School of Dance and Vladimir Issaev’s School of Classical Ballet. Additional training includes summer intensives with Alvin Ailey, Greenwich Studios in London, Complexions and Netherlands Dance Theater. Simone received her B.A. in Psychology and Communications from Boston College in 2006. She has danced with Arts Ballet Theater of Florida, Impulse Dance Company, Brazarte Modern Dance Company and Keen Dance Theater. Simone has performed works by Jiri Kylian, Hans van Manen, Camille A. Brown, Nathan Trice, Adam Barruch, Troy Powell, Sidra Bell, Sydney Skybetter and Jessy Smith, Roberto Dias, Adrienne Hawkins, John Keen, Nellie Rainwater, Deborah Jowitt, and Stacy Spence. She has presented her own work at DanSpace (St.Mark's Church), Fourth Arts Block Festival, DanceNow Raw Festival, WHITE WAVE Dumbo Dance Festival, Outlet Dance Festival: Grounds for Sculpture, Jody Sperling Tea Dances, East Flatbush Dance Festival, Green Space Take Root Series, BAX Upstart Festival, Let's Dance to Health Celebrity Dance Showcase in Arkansas, Legros Cultural Arts Women in Dance Series, Queens Museum of Art, Queens Fringe Festival, the Chorlton Arts Festival in Manchester, England, BAAD! Ass Women Festival, The Houston Fringe Festival in Texas, and the Stockholm Fringe festival In Sweden. She received an M.F.A in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in May of 2010. Simone co-founded Sobers & Godley, a duet company, in the fall of 2009 and premiered its first season at NYU Atlas Theater in May 2010. She is currently a company member of Malcolm Low/ Formal Structures. Upcoming showcases of her work include Harlem Stages E-Moves 13, Atlanta Fringe Festival, and Nashville Fringe Festival. Simone is participating in two upcoming projects curated and designed by Ralph Lemon. Simone has taught workshops internationally at Zion Arts Centre and Roehampton University in England as well as in L.A at Debbie Allen's Dance Academy.

Recent Glo auditions.

The behind-the-scenes photographer's name is Bill Downey. Great, great photographer. He was snapping away in such a way, you'd forget he was there. He's also great with people, he relaxes everyone!

An Interview With Sandy

In the last of our series of interviews with Glo Supporters, director Tanyeno Wotorson sits down with Sandy. Sandy is a model and actress, and she shares with us the difficulties of coming out in a Christian family.

http://youtu.be/jeSe2BJXK5g

THANK YOU, SANDY!

Fundraising adjustments for the film

 If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ~ Howard H. Aiken


I used this quote to keep me inspired once. Just wanted to post it because it reminds me of remaining value during times of challenge (and Glo has hit some along the way). But it is a reminder that stigma really exist as it has charged more responses than one would have expected, plus there is unexpected stigma rearing it's head in forms and actions no one could have imagined.


I believe this is no reason to back down from a difficult angle or subject. We live in difficult times, and sure we can serve up total entertainment, but if a film doesn't have a reason for existing besides eating popcorn, people sometimes actually get annoyed. I believe people want their films to illuminate something. No they don't want a loud thumping "message," in narrative but they still want one.


So I don't think backing down is the issue - however I am aware that this film like anything else I decide to tackle, 
won't be without the 'Why would you stir this up,' and  that the decision to fund should not enter the hands of those who get angry by transgender anything or LGBT anything. After the film is made, controversies can draw attention to it, during the funding, it stalls it.


So our planning and deadlines around fundraising have changed to deal with - what we've learned.


Written by the director, Tanyeno Wotorson

An Interview with Robert

Another one of our Glo supporters, Robert, sits down with Tanyeno to discuss stigma in the LGBT community. He speaks about the difficulties of sharing his lifestyle with his family. Watch the video here:

http://youtu.be/szmP0khi3io

Thank you, Robert!