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Selections+awards

It’s always nice to be picked! Being selected on a elementary school playground was a nice feeling. Winning an award for a contest, also a great feeling. It’s nice to be wanted.

To be clear, there is a wide range of levels of prestige and challenge in life’s various contests. Being the valedictorian in a class of one doesn’t change the fact that you might enjoy some great university scholarships for just showing up. Most of the time, there’s a bit more competition. Well… We are blessed with multiple selections for festivals. This is great! We are definitely hoping for many more to come, but for now, we are thankful that it has started.

Actually, we’ve won a few things along the way as well. Best Cinematography in New York City! Best Social Short in an Indian festival. Best Dramatic Narrative Short in Austin. Great stuff! Fifteen (15) selections as of November 2019, with many other festivals to come.

Earlier this year, a number of people contributed to an IndieGoGo campaign we launched to help fund the final steps of completing ADNAN Far from Home, a short film we produced. In addition to finishing the project, the funding has been used to enter a number of wide-ranging film festivals in an attempt to broaden the number of people who might enjoy seeing this eight minute short film on “the big screen.” It really is amazing to see a project in a theater environment with a crowd. It’s actually very special!

Even though this IndieGoGo campaign officially concluded earlier this year, it is still “UP” on IndieGoGo and still enabled to receive funding since these funds could still go towards the stated goal… entering more festivals. If we understand it correctly, this campaign will continue to be active through at least part of November. Even though it no longer shows a deadline date, you can still click on the various perks found down the right side of the page. You would be added to the final rendition of the project in the future and receive the same perks.

If you would like to read about this project, you can see the UPDATES by clicking here. As these updates state, we are truly appreciative to those who added to the available funding for ADNAN. We are proud that this short film will be seen by more and more over time. If you would like to be part of this, please join us.

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TexasBigStar Fall 2016

During the Fall of 2016, Mustang International is launching a series of Internet-based shows all branded under the name of TexasBigStar.

The first of the shows to be launched was TexasBigStar LIVE.

Links:

YouTube.com/TexasBigStarLIVE – Live show broadcasting every Sunday Afternoon

TexasBigStar.TV – More informationtexasbigstarlive-logo-small-square

YouTube.com/TexasBigStar – Behind-the-Scenes from the Crew

 

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Global Networking: Ethne to Ethne

Executive Summary: Mustang International navigated significant technical and cultural challenges to produce one of the most robust internationally friendly DVD projects ever completed on a minimal budget by coordinating a large volunteer base and pushing the boundaries of industry-standard production tools.

In 2004, Mustang International was invited to attend a meeting of Christian missions leaders and media producers to review the possibility of producing a very challenge DVD project. The sponsoring group was a global grass-roots network called Ethne who focuses on sharing the gospel with the seemingly unreachable parts of the world. The goal was to produce a series of videos telling true stories that highlight conversions from “impossible” groups. In addition to coordinating the collection of materials and the production of twelve different videos, each story would need to fully utilize DVD capabilities to support multiple languages – approximately 5 soundtracks and 15 subtitle tracks. Many of those attending seemed unable to comprehend ways to produce this project for less than a million dollars. Within a month, Mustang International was able to maximize the volunteer workforce available and produce a proof-of-concept piece that far exceeded Ethne’s expectations. Over the next 18 months, two DVDs were produced containing and fully developed overview video with an additional twelve stories, all told in Mandarin, Spanish, Indonesian, French, English and a music only track in order to facilitate additional language versions produced regionally. Subtitle tracks were produced in Mandarin, Spanish, English, French, Indonesian, Russian, Korean, Hindi, Portuguese, German, Tagalog, Japanese, Swahili, Faroese, Bengali, Afrikaans, and Tamil. Navigating the many cultural challenges with the languages and volunteers from around the world proved to be a major part of the project. Also, technical challenges were met as well, including the development of custom software to handle shortcoming found in the DVD authoring software.