March 2004

Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Naomi meets Cynthia Close, Executive Director of Documentary Educational Resources at a funding workshop at Boston Neighborhood Networks. Cynthia is very impressed and excited about TWISTED and accepts our application to serve as our Fiscal Agent! You can now make a tax deductible donation to TWISTED through the DER website (scroll down film list to get to TWISTED).


TWISTED's Letter of Commitment from DER.

Summit Meeting #5: Networking and Logging
Sara and Naomi meet in New York for some serious footage review and serious networking. Partying with the folks at the Comedy Central Bar Mitzvah Bash, Sara and Naomi stop to make the first ever Eliot Lives Productions chocolate lollipop. Naomi and Sara also go out for dinner and drinks with Jeff Marx, writer of hit Broadway Musical, Avenue Q.



ELP at Comedy Central Bar Mitzvah Bash

February 2004

A crazy busy month...Sara and Naomi work every weekend to prepare for Twist and Shout 2004. The weekend (3 days, 32 hours of footage, 5 hours of sleep) is a great success and a heck of a lot of fun.

Twist and Shout 2004

Eliot Lives Productions setting up our interview studio


..don't worry: we have actual real cameras.


ELP crew


Charlie with balloon skydiver


Don with the drunken balloon pirate


Cheech and Chong


Balloon sushi!


Congratulations Debbie, Top Twister!

January 2004

Grant Applications
Sara and Naomi start applying for grants (LEF Foundation, Independent Film Project) to help fund TWISTED.

December 2003

Still watching footage...

Summit Meeting #4
Sara and Naomi meet in New York City to begin planning for upcoming filming at Twist and Shout 2004 and the International Balloon Artists Convention.

November 2003

The Fundraising Push
Sara and Naomi finalize pitch packages about the film and mail them out. Checks start coming! Special Thanks to Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton for his donation and nice note!


Chancellor's letter

October 2003

N.A.A. R Charity Event at Giant Stadium
Eliot Lives Productions has a jammed packed weekend full of filming, interviewing, writing, and, of course, lots of ballooning fun. Sara and Naomi stayed at the home of Mr. Juggles and Glitter and followed them to the N.A.A.R. charity walk held at Giant Stadium the following day. Juggles and Glitter's daughter Lauren showed Sara and Naomi how to make the balloon arches that decorated the Stadium.



Mr. Juggles under the balloon arch


Sara is a supa-sta!


Marcie, Mr. Juggles, Glitter and Lauren

Summit Meeting #3: The Pitch Package
ELP spent a large part of the weekend putting together a pitch package about Twisted: A Balloonamentary to send out to potential supporters and funders. Please email us if you would like to receive a pitch package.

Donger
Sara and Naomi also caught up with newbie to the balloon twisting world, Donger. Donger shared his origins as a balloon twister and is looking forward to attending Twist and Shout 2004, his first balloon twisting conventions.



Balloons Around the World Day
Eliot Lives Productions celebrates Balloons Around the World Day 2003 by catching up with and filming balloon twisting friends Charlie Fogarty and JuJuBee the Clown. Check out some of Charlie's latest creations. JuJuBee added lots of color and liveliness to Foss Motors in Exeter, NH.


Charlie's biker dude


Juju Bee and the kids at Foss Motors

Online Store
You can still purchase T-shirts by emailing, but check out all the other cool stuff you can get at the BRAND NEW "Twisted: A Balloonamentary" Online Store!

September 2003

Twisted Trailer #1
The trailer is here! Go watch it before you do anything else!!

Wash U on Today Show
Sara recently appeared with fellow Washington University students in the crowd of the Today Show on NBC. The group represented their alma mater with a festive "W" and "U" made out of balloons.