The Waiting Game For Grants

Hi Folks:

Its been a while since I have blogged anything, so I figured I needed to let everyone know what we have been doing lately.

First of all, I hope everyone will have a great Christmas and get to enjoy the company of family and friends this season. Christmas around the Brown's home is a very busy time and we are looking forward to having family over for Christmas Eve dinner and celebrations.

So, what has been going on with Engineering Tragedy? Right now we are filling out grant applications like crazy and we have to have a ton of them turned in by Jan 15th and Feb 15th. We have already turned in about 3 applications, but its to soon yet to hear if we won any funding yet.

We were hoping to start filming by this February, but without the funding in place that's not going to happen. Our big grant application with the National Endowment for the Humanities will not give us an answer until July. Having said that, we are not discouraged at all. We feel we have a great story and team! Plus, we really spending a long time putting these next grant applications together, so they are complete and follow the example of other successful applications. We might be running 6 months behind, but that's okay.

We were planning on filming the winter things first, but if we have to start with the summer filming first and then do our winter filming next winter, that will be fine as well. I think this is more my fault, because I did not realize how the grant cycle worked and how long it took to get an approval for a grant.

We are still moving forward!

May you all have a great Christmas!

Len Brown
Producer / Director