Kickstarter for the Norm Van Lier Documentary, "The Bullfighter"

May June Pictures is producing a feature length documentary on the life of 1970s Chicago Bull, Norm Van Lier. Filmmakers Heidi Van Lier, who is the daughter of the late NBA All-Star, and Sean Meredith are co-directing the film, which will go into production early Spring 2012. On November 7th, they launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for production. Kickstarter is a relatively new on-line service that uses crowd sourcing and social media to reach fundraising goals.

"The Bullfighter" will follow the tumultuous full life of Norm Van Lier. Through interviews and original game footage, we will step back into the 1960s and 70s. Van Lier played basketball like it was life or death. He partied with celebrities and raised a family. But there were things he wanted to accomplish that he'd never achieve before he died.

Visit our Kickstarter: http://kck.st/uiV7bm

Official website: http://www.thebullfighterdoc.com/


--- ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS ---

HEIDI VAN LIER -- DIRECTOR
Producer, Heidi Van Lier, is a filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She wrote, directed, and produced the film CHI GIRL, which won the Slamdance Grand Jury Prize for Best Film. She has since written, directed, and produced 3 other films, MONDAY, AMERICAN DECAF, and the upcoming ICE CREAMCAKE. Heidi currently blogs for FilmThreat.com and she panels and speaks across the country at colleges and film festivals about her book The Indie Film Rule Book, a strategic guide to indie filmmaking. This summer Heidi produced the Logo TV series BAD SEX, airing in November. Heidi and Sean also have several other projects together.


SEAN MEREDITH -- DIRECTOR
Sean Meredith is a writer/director who years ago washed upon the shores of animation and puppetry making "In Smog and Thunder" and "Dante's Inferno." In 2011 he co-wrote the rom-com "Threeable" with Heidi Van Lier, and finished his screenplay "The Sleep and The Wheel" which he's preparing to direct in late 2012. He's edited and produced sports and music documentaries. He directed, edited, co-wrote and produced his first feature film, "Dante's Inferno," which premiered at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival and went on to screen at over thirty film festivals and museums. "Dante," a toy theater puppet film voiced by Dermot Mulroney (Dante) and James Cromwell (Virgil), garnered six awards, including Best Director from the Silver Lake Film Festival. His basketball journey began in his backyard with his father George and continued as he and his dad with unwavering fans of the New Jersey Nets. Whether they played at Rutgers's Piscataway gym or the Meadowlands, they nary missed a a game. His mother sometimes attended, but over time could not stand to witness Sean and his father's intense fandom.

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