More International Media Coverage for Julio & Carol

As Argentina continues to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Julio Cortazar, it's clear they can't wait to hear more about his Canadian wife, Carol Dunlop, and the tragic love story we are telling in our film Julio and Carol.

This week we again made international headlines by showing up in the popular arts and culture magazine ArteZeta. The interview with the writer and co-director Tobin Dalrymple sheds light on the final voyage Carol took alongside Cortazar, the book she wrote with him and the friends and family we've interviewed to tell this story. 

The original Spanish language article is available here: http://artezeta.com.ar/julio-carol-una-historia-de-amor/

Previously we also appeared in various Argentine national newspapers and the top cultural magazine Pagina 12. 

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We were selected as finalists… now you can help us win

There I was, about to fall asleep, taking a good rest away from a marathon week of script writing for this awesome Cortazar documentary I've told you all so much about, when my phone started to explode. Retweets, mentions, FB posts lighting it up like a little rectangular Christmas tree.

Julio and Carol - a new documentary about Julio Cortazar and his wife Carol Dunlop selected for Project of the Week

So I took a look. And I was floored. Julio and Carol - a new documentary about love, Cortazar and literature - had been hand selected as a project of the week finalist by IndieReign, one of the Internet's largest indie film distribution networks. Let me say that again. Out of all the thousands of film project on all the thousands of Crowdfunding platforms, they picked ours as a finalist for this contest.

So that felt great.

But you know what would feel really, super, extra special? If we WON this thing. It means $100 bucks into the project... but more importantly it means getting featured on this incredible website, which is a hub for thousands of filmmakers and ever more indie film lovers, buyers and supporters world wide. It could be a huge difference!

So… if you would take just two seconds to help us win this thing, there couldn't be anything easier.

Simply click to vote - that's it. You just helped us win.

You don't have to register. You don't have to sign in with FB or anything. You just click on the link, find "Julio and Carol" on the drop down list, and vote.

Please, pretty please, go do this now. We are basically tied for first with another project, and it's neck and neck. We have a really good chance of winning this thing. 

Vote for Julio and Carol, right here: http://blog.indiereign.com/project-of-the-week-40-will-it-be-herenownevernowhere-tachyon-julio-carol-or-limit/

Road map to love: Pagina 12 coverage

We had another huge break through with Latin America this week, again, with Pagina 12 picking up the story of Julio Cortazar, Carol Dunlop, and the documentary exploring their love, deaths and the famous book they'd write at the end.

They did a great job highlighting the quest here. The truth is this all started with us asking the question: what the hell is love? Why can't everyone have what these two had in their book, Autonauts of the Cosmoroute? What is so wild and different about their connection, and why is it so powerful?

A Pagina12 story with co-director Tobin Dalrymple of the new Julio Cortazar movie.

Read the full article and find out more about the origins of the new Cortazar documentary, here.

Carol Dunlop's love for Julio Cortazar: Preview of the new documentary

I keep telling everyone how beautiful Autonauts of the Cosmoroute is. The romance of it: two artists living for 33 days in a VW hippie van, when their time was runnign out. The art of it: the typewriters, the wine, the poetry, the love, the sex … And the tragedy: this was their last voyage.

But it's hard to get that across unless you've read the book. Or have spent the last year getting to know the characters better than you do yourself! But, this is one of the key elements we are going to build in our film: a sense of magic and wonder. A feeling that you are on the road with the writers. That you feel their pain, their passion, and you feel your heart drop, your hair stand on end, along with them.

This video offers a glimpse at this magical concoction we are preparing for the release of Julio and Carol in 2014, the new Julio Cortazar documentary about his famous, and tragic, last love affair. We made with a steady cam, and never before seen slides from the private collection of Carol Dunlop's son, Stephane Hebert. I just love the mystique. The cigarette smoke. The click of the machine. It's as if you're sitting there with the Cronopio himself, looking at family vacation shots, thinking back the whole time to your greatest love. The animated hand - which is so Cortazarian it hurts. Ahh, it just kills me.

This is what I can't wait to do on a much, much larger scale. And we'll get there -- with your help! We are at 10% of our funding goal, and 32 days remain. Will you put your name on this movie today, and ensure this love story gets told right?