Thank you to all of our contributors!

128 people made our first crowdfunding campaign a success!

Eric Philpott

7/26/20243 min read

Our crowdfunding campaign wrapped up on July 10 with 128 supporters contributing $78,925 CAD towards our production costs. In the coming days and weeks, we'll share our progress on the film, but this post is about recognizing our supporters.

If you would like to dedicate your contribution to someone's memory or any other short thought you want to share, please let me know and I will add that behind your name or initials.

  1. Eric Hovius - The first contributor of the campaign!

  2. Keystone Bridge Management Corp. - Contributed twice, in memory of Jakob and Annette Kleywegt

  3. Laura Tufford -

  4. G. V. L. -

  5. Anne Vander Laan -

  6. Julie & Jim Nicol -

  7. P. H. -

  8. E. P. -

  9. Annie B -

  10. Sara Taylor - 2x

  11. T. M -

  12. Nancy Taylor -

  13. Hamed Ahmed - My favourite son-in-law

  14. Mohamad -

  15. Ayah Ahmed - My granddaughter

  16. Jennah Ahmed - Another granddaughter

  17. Madina Ahmed - My eldest granddaughter!

  18. A. N -

  19. T. McC. -

  20. Carine Bavelaar-Croon - My cousin!

  21. Soule Karl - Colleague at Adobe

  22. Jack And Anna Hovius -

  23. D. Bosch - One of the Bosches, my “American family.”

  24. L. D. -

  25. Wendy Philpott And Andy Houston - My sister and brother-in-law!

  26. Dan Bortolotti -

  27. Mike Russell - Audio and AI guru

  28. Tracy Lovell -

  29. Rande Kostal -

  30. A. P. - One of my daughters!

  31. Frank Willem Croon - My uncle, contributed 4x!

  32. Sebastian Altemüller - Former student, contributed 2x!

  33. R. C. -

  34. Durin Gleaves - Colleague at Adobe

  35. Duncan W Alderson - My high school English teacher (and published novelist)!

  36. Elisabeth Yetman - My former music teacher and later a teaching colleague

  37. F. A. - Another of my daughters!

  38. Shara Morishige - Colleague at Adobe

  39. Jenny Reile -

  40. John And Doreen Drenth -

  41. Ginna Baldassarre - Colleague at Adobe

  42. Alessandro Tersigni -

  43. Francis Crossman - Colleague at Adobe

  44. Jason Tenter -

  45. J. M. - A former student

  46. A. P. - A former schoolmate

  47. Sara Gladney/Robert McCluggage -

  48. Stephen Bolton - Former CEO of Libro Credit Union

  49. R. D. -

  50. Mark Levine -

  51. Patti Wolfe Bob Pickering - Former teaching colleagues, contributed 2x!

  52. Cathy Hiscott -

  53. Judith Palmer -

  54. Mary Willow - Joe Crawford’s mother, contributed 2X!

  55. Rose Anderson -

  56. Stephen Pitel -

  57. Paul Clement English -

  58. M. D. -

  59. M. L. W. -

  60. Jim Feeley - Filmmaker based in San Francisco

  61. T. & P. T. -

  62. S. LaF. -

  63. Jeffrey Cheng - Former student

  64. Seth & Diane - Seth Bornstein is the author of “Swimming to Jerusalem”

  65. Syd Usprich -

  66. Bern -

  67. Christopher Steinrueck - Owner of Wood Thumb in San Francisco, and my godson!

  68. R. K. -

  69. Carol Broer -

  70. Robert Solomon -

  71. Martijn Croon - My cousin

  72. Tom Bijvoet - Host of Dutch The Podcast

  73. Rinske Salverda - Author of “Dance: my rich life on a small budget”

  74. Will Bosch - Father of my “American family”

  75. Ivan Steenstra -

  76. Stephen Drenth -

  77. Patrick Palmer - Former student and former Adobe colleague!

  78. Grant Cassidy Rika Vander Laan -

  79. G. L. - This is the person whose contribution got us to our crowdfunding goal

  80. Tyler Family - Our adopted relatives in Canada (since all of our actual relatives were in Holland or England)

  81. Kae Elgie -

  82. Albert Van Der Heide -

  83. G. C. -

  84. Hovius Chris -

  85. Chris Hovius’ children -

  86. Michael Drenth -

  87. David Van Patter -

  88. F. C. - Although he’s anonymous here, he’s my uncle!

  89. Joanne Jay -

  90. Carol Lewis - Parent of one of my former students

  91. Libby Palmer -

  92. Nishita Kumar - Colleague at Adobe

  93. M. & A. H. -

  94. J. McI. -

  95. Gail Littlejohn -

  96. Suzanne Perez Miller - One of my best friends in high school!

  97. S. T. -

  98. J. & S. V. -

  99. J. S. H. K. B. M. - Another Bosch! Yes, I chose to write out everyone of of her initials!

  100. Peter T -

  101. Tina B - Yet another Bosch, and goddaughter of my late father, Keith Philpott

  102. A. -

  103. Harry Oldewening

  104. Colin Boyd - Colleague from my summer job in Algonquin Park

  105. Rene Kuipers -

  106. Wes Plate - Former colleague at Adobe and extreme long distance runner

  107. Herman En Roelie -

  108. Rebecca Martin -

  109. Tim Kurkoski - Colleague at Adobe

  110. Cheryl Henning - 2x

  111. R. I. - dedicated her contribution to funny memories of me (her history teacher) and Joe (her classmate)

  112. Lynda McKee - to support Joe in his filmmaking and honour the memory of Bryan McKenzie

  113. Duncan H - Colleague from my summer job in Algonquin Park

  114. Tina Okkema - Wife of Harry Okkema, the only survivor of the Dresden work crew

  115. Carla & Clarence Nap -

  116. Jane And Brian Wright -

  117. A. G. -

  118. L. G. -

  119. Bill Nichols -

  120. L. P. – father of one of my schoolmates (and his first name was my father’s middle name)

  121. Barbara Marshall - Counterpart at HP when I worked at Adobe

  122. Stefan Gruenwedel - Colleague at Adobe

  123. P. V. K. -

  124. Robert Pal - My business coach!

  125. E. E. -

  126. M.P.

  127. Alex Macleod - UK - based postproduction consultant I know from working at Adobe

  128. Joshua Fox - The last contribution, just under the wire!

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