TRISTAN JONES TELEVISION BIOGRAPHY
Status: In development. To be produced in 2007, funding permitting.
SEA-TV is developing a major television biography on Tristan
Jones. We have published two productions on Tristan and recently
won an award for the newly revised The Incredible Tristan Jones.
These productions were based on an interview and a talk by Tristan.
Now we want to produce a comprehensive television documentary
on his life. Between SEA-TV and Henry Wagner (Tristans close
friend and supporter) we have most of Tristan's documents including
his notes, logs, photos and video. Much of this has still not
been seen by the general public.
In addition, we want to interview as many people as possible
who were involved in Tristans life: those who were inspired
by him, his critics, his close friends. Henry is desirous of
having this production made because he is concerned that many
of those who knew Tristan well may pass on without their stories
ever being captured. So now is the time! In spite of his critics,
Tristans spirit lives on. He inspired countless people to change
their lives “ to venture further. Henry can testify to this
fact from seeing the hundreds of people who visited Tristan
at Henrys Sailors Bookshelf booth at the major boat shows. We
recently learned of a cult of young teenagers in Florida who
discovered Tristan and walk around repeatedly quoting statements
from his videos. Statements such as "When I encounter trouble,
it's in trouble!"
FUNDING WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We are looking for private funding for this production so we
can tell it our way. From Bequia in the Caribbean to the UK
to South America to Thailand, we want to interview and document
as many people as we can who were involved in his incredible,
adventurous life. To do all this we need serious funding for
development and production expenses, travel, video equipment,
editing, etc. We estimate that we need at least $350,000 to
produce a high quality television program acceptable to cable
and PBS networks. It will need to be shot in HD video since
all new productions for these networks now need to be in that
format. If you can help or know anyone who can, please contact
us at SEA-TV.
Our contact information follows. You may also click on the Amazon
Honor System button on this page to make a contribution. We
hope to have significant funding in place by the end of this
year. Contributors will be thanked in the credits for the show.
Very large contributors who want to invest in the production
are welcome and will receive a percent of the gross profits
from the production. Be warned, documentaries typically do not
produce high profits. Your biggest reward will be the satisfaction
that Tristans story will be told to the world in time. Please
contact me if you have any questions.
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Thank you,
Chip Croft
Executive Producer
SEA~TV Productions
103 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06510
203-777-7001 |
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