'Specialty' ~ a Wellington Coffee Documentary

Director & Co-Producer James Ladanyi sits down to discuss ~ 'Why This Project?'

Kia ora Boosted Donors!

With approximately 36 hours left on our campaign, we are 85% of the way to our target!!

Ana, Samuel and I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has donated to the cause over the last couple of weeks. We've been incredibly humbled by the support of friends, family, acquaintances, and strangers- all combining to back this project financially.

We'll do our best to reach out and thank everyone individually over the coming days, however many of you have chosen to donate anonymously, so we won't be able to get in touch. If you are an Anon donor, and happen to be reading this- THANK YOU! Your anonymous generosity has been instrumental in this fundraising effort (though we'd love to hear from you, if you feel like reaching out...).

With just over a day left, we're turning our focus to one final push, and reaching that finish line!

Love, thanks, and coffee.

James Ladanyi

To our wonderfully generous Boosted donors...

WE GOT THERE! 101% of our crowdfunding target achieved, with us getting over the $15,000 line just five hours before our deadline at 5pm last Thursday.

This is an incredible moment for our team, and we are still processing the relief and joy of having secured the funds to make this project, and tell this great story.

Because it is a great story. It's filled with amazing characters, groundbreaking moments of genius, luck, and inspiration. It's full of heart, ingenuity, and the kiwi spirit. It's deeply political, it's rooted in complex economics, it's scientific and artistic in equal measures.

And it deserves to be told properly.

You have given us the ability to do so, and we can't wait to get started!

Ana, Samuel and I will be sitting down over the next few weeks, planning pre-production, and hashing out the nitty-gritty details that we couldn't turn our focus to without the knowledge of having a budget- which is VERY exciting! We hope to begin filming in late April, with the goal of editing it together in the back half of this year.

It's not official yet, but let's just say that we will be hosting a coffee-based film preview at a certain Wellington-based food and drink festival in August. Keep your eyes peeled for a WOAP program in the coming months!

Once again, we can't express our gratitude to you all enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for making this happen!

James, Ana, & Samuel xx