ROCKIN AND ROLLIN WITH DGW

July 26, 2007

Recently, when Nightline aired the story about our film (for the second time), we received tons of e-mails. In that batch of fan mail was the nicest note from Stacey Zimmerman, who is stationed in Japan with the U.S. Navy. She wrote...

"I saw a small part of your show last night, and I really want to know what I can do to help Darius. I want to help the organization as a whole but in particular I was especially moved by Darius and his passion for life and his courage in the face of his seriouis illness."

Stacey went on to say that she was interested in organizing a walk--a-thon or some other fundraiser on the base, but she mostly wanted to send us some "fun" money to enable Darius to do something special.

For months, Darius had been saying he wished he could go to the "Rock the Bells" concert at Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheatre in early August, so that's what we told Stacey we'd like to do. She loved the idea and sent a donation to cover the costs of tickets for Darius and 9 crew members to attend this rap event. HE IS SO PUMPED!

Stacey also sent Darius a goodie package filled with bubblegum, a stuffed bear, video game magazines, and much more. He is in heaven! Thank you, Stacey, for giving Big D and the crew something awesome to look forward to! We'll take plenty of pictures and post them on this site.

Other news...Logan, Ben and Sam, have spent three nights in Martha's Vineyard, where last night's screening at the Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival's Summer Film Series was a huge success. In their spare time, the guys have been tooling around the island on mopeds, eating some great seafood, and even went surfing! Special thanks to Thomas Bena, festival director, for rolling out the red carpet for DGW!

Tomorrow, Collin, Tbarn, John Harmon, and Barbara (Logan/Ben's mom) fly to Reading, PA, where they will meet up with Logan, Ben, and Sam. The Goggleworks Theater in Reading will be showing DGW for a solid week; the crew will be there for screenings all weekend. Proceeds will benefit Charley's Fund. While in Reading, the crew will be hosted by Maria McDonnell and Tom Sandor, who appear in our film, along with their sons Ethan, Owen, and Aidan (aka "the caboose"). Then, on Monday, we'll take a day trip to Pine Forest Camp in the Pocono Mountains, where counselors will have watched DGW the night before, and we'll mix and mingle and do a Q&A. Barbara Smalley worked at Pine Forest Camp during the summer of her freshman year at UGA and became good friends with the director's son, Mickey Black...who is now the camp's director. Over the years, the two had lost touch, but a few months ago, he sent an e-mail to Logan (not realizing that he was Barbara's son) rsaying he had heard wonderful things about our film and begged to show it. Small world!

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