It was just four months ago when we made the first public announcement about our film project at the Lakeview Library back in November. Since then, much has happened. We’re now well into planning for on-location filming during the week of May 18th. We’re committing to filming without having reached the April 1st budget target we hoped for. We’re doing so because of our strong belief in the importance of this story and faith that others will join us to make it happen.
We’ll begin filming on Monday morning in Eugene at the University of Oregon Archives where we’ll film items from the Pearl Hall Collection, including some of the 48 letters written between Bernard Daly and Pearl Hall. Through these letters and Pearl Hall’s notes that she wrote for a book she hoped to write about Daly, we know more about him. Though the book was never written, her notes and first-hand accounts of Daly were of great help to me in my research and writing. We also plan to interview a couple of Daly scholarship students at the University of Oregon.
Then we’ll move to Corvallis where we’ll interview Daly scholarship students at OSU and others connected to the scholarship. After a busy day and half in Corvallis, we’ll drive to Lakeview for several days of filming interviews with high school students who have applied for the scholarship, scenes of Lakeview and the surrounding area, including ranch scenes.
It’s exciting and I hope you’ll join us in making it happen. For those of you who have been impacted by the scholarship, I hope you’ll honor Dr. Daly by “paying it forward” – that’s what Dr. Daly did more than a century ago.
You can help us bring this remarkable story to the big screen.
- Make a donation (quick and convenient, but not tax-deductible) through our GoFundMe web site or a tax-deductible donation by mailing a check to the Lakeview Community Partnership, 16S S F St., Lakeview, OR 97630 with the note indicating it’s for the “Daly Fund Movie.”
- Consider being an investor in the film (minimum $10K). If the film is profitable, investors will receive their initial investment plus a 20% premium and share of profits in proportion to their investment. Please contact me (sam.stern@oregonstate.edu) if you are interested in becoming an investor in the project.
Note: If the film is profitable, 10% of the profits will be given to the Daly Scholarship Fund. The names of all the donors will appear in the end credits and investors will be identified as executive producers.
