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Rollaball successfully reached its fundraising goal on Saturday, 22 September 2012, on Kickstarter, the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. Big World Cinema’s documentary-in-progress raised $38 577 from 294 funders across the planet, making it the most successful Kickstarter movie project from an African production company. In addition, Rollaball is now in the top 3% of all funded projects on Kickstarter that have raised over $20 000. Rollaball will tell the story of The Rolling Rockets, an inspiring team of Ghanaian polio survivors who are pioneering an extreme sport hybrid of handball, skating and soccer. During the Kickstarter campaign, The Huffington Post called them “the world’s most bad-ass extreme athletes.” Director Eddie Edwards says, “I was so happy to be able to phone the guys in Ghana with the fantastic news that we exceeded our goal. We are now able to return to Ghana to complete filming and are aiming for a mid-2013 release. The team’s ecstatic – it shows them that the world is interested in skate soccer and affirms their dream of holding the first African Skate Soccer Cup of Nations next year.” Abdul Rahaman (aka No Fear), one of the founding members of The Rolling Rockets, adds, “Thank you to everyone for supporting. This is so great; we’re going to make a movie!” Big World Cinema’s Steven Markovitz is producing the documentary. Steven co-founded Encounters, Africa’s most prestigious documentary festival; co-produced MTV’s Best African Movie 2010, Viva Riva!; and is producing the upcoming Jambula Tree, winner of the Arte Prize for Best Feature Film Project at Durban International Film Festival 2012. He says, “For our Kickstarter campaign to work, we knew we’d need more than the support of our friends and family in South Africa and Ghana. The overwhelming encouragement we received from all over the world shows that Rollaball has true global appeal.” Rollaball’s campaign had funders from five continents and received high-profile endorsements from the likes of Ghanaian Black Stars internationals Michael Essien and Sulley Muntari; paralympian and 2012 torch-bearer Anne Wafula Strike; and World Cup Skateboarding, as well as Disabled Peoples’ International’s world chair Javed Abidi; The UN Special Rapporteur on Disability; The Africa Decade of Persons With Disabilities; and South Africa’s Department of Women, Children and People With Disabilities. It also received support via social media from Golden Globe winner Mia Farrow, Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi, and award-winning science fiction novelist Lauren Beukes, among others. Associate producer Shelley Barry, a filmmaker and disability activist, says, “We received interest from a number of sales agents during the campaign, our next step is to finalise our international broadcast partners and funders.” In addition to its Kickstarter success, Rollaball has received production funding from The National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa, won the Puma.Creative Catalyst Award in partnership with Britdoc Foundation in 2011, and been selected out of 571 entries for the prestigious Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2012. New associate producers include Kevin Kriedemann, Ian Learmonth, The Nerves of Us and Polio Survivors & Associates Rotarian Action Group.]]>
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