Hello again,
As I'm sure you can see by now the film's name has changed to From The Shadows and the website has changed to: www.fromtheshadowsmovie.com and we now have Japanese pages to go along with our English version. To briefly bring you up to date, we had a very productive Spring. We shot miles of tape and began the editing process in April in Los Angeles and after some time for employment obligations we plan to make another push on the film from August. Dave will work on the film for two months and Matt will work spend over a month working exclusively on the film. During this time we will be making a big push for fundraising and ask everyone to consider making a donation or asking their friends and relations to consider doing the same. For more information please contact us at: dave@fromtheshadowsmovie.com
There has been a lot of activity concerning this issue. On May 9th the Asahi newspaper reported that Japan will join the Hague treaty as early as 2010. Though there have been no concrete steps or any more detailed plans have been announced since it is apparent that the government is at least thinking about the issue and there is a sense something might happen. Tomorrow, On July 13th there will be a street demonstration with the "Oyakonet" group here in Japan. Mr Munakata and Mr. Morita are the contacts for that. Their e-mail is: oyakonet2008@yahoo.co.jp There will also be a press conference at FCCJ in Tokyo on July 14th and a televised news story about the issue will be out on: http://www.aptn.com/ very soon.
Please send along any questions or comments to Dave at the above e-mail address.
Thanks for reading and please keep checking back.
Dave, Matt and Sean
