You May Say That I'm a Dreamer (working title)
About
There is a 51-year-old Beatles-themed fan fest - Once called Beatlesfest, now affectionally known as 'The Fest.' Started in '74 to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Beatlemania landing in the U.S. - it's grown into a massive community hippies, lovely weirdos, rockers, peace-activists, dreamers and so much more. In 2024, the Fest celebrated its 50th with a huge, one-off 3-day party at the TWA Hotel at JFK airport.
Vision
We were able to film and capture the magic of the 50th with a lovely small crew of folks (working deferred). The idea here is to capture that uniquely American phenom: the creation of kind community and an extended family through mutual appreciation... A kind of familial love writ large. And it went multi-generation. The 50th fest had Micky Dolenz! It had a Queer-Trans Trippy fashion show! Yoko-appreciation! Amazing rock-n-roll bands! Experimental variations of classic Beatles songs! Legendary hallway jam sessions! It had activists re-creating the John-and-Yoko bed-in vibe into a careful deliberated chat about current wars. It had the return of Glinda the Good Bus! It had a recording studio! Authors! Art makers! A lot of ladies who snuck out of their homes to follow the Beatles, or to get to the early fests - 50-years-later they're still the closest of friends, many with Paul McCartney's signature tattooed on their bodies!
It's the story of how a family of lovable hippie weirdos, became an extended family... of lovable hippie weirdo artists and fans.
Mission
Now trying to raise the money to film about 8 sit-down interviews, go through a thousand pieces of archival, and edit into one epic doc-feature. Making verite-and-archive driven docs is an arduous process. Would love to have this entering the world in 2026. (Having already shot hundreds of clips, crafted docs can easily take a year in edit.). And -- working with a media consultant for the Rock-n-roll Hall of Fame -- and personal ties, hoping to have a few 'celeb'-type interviews, to help articulate the impact of the Fab Four; fandom and the love found and made in music.
To Help Complete the Film
Donations to the project can be made via our Fiscal Sponsor, the non-profit Millennium Film Workshop.
1 - Write a Check to Millennium Film Workshop (86 Wyckoff Avenue, PO Box 370664, Brooklyn NY 11237),
but Must WRITE in the note line on the check that is for *BEATLESFEST DOCU*
2 - Alternately, donations can be made through Venmo (@millennium_film) or paypal (info@millenniumfilm.org) - but REALLY need to denote in comments that is for BEATLESFEST DOCU*
(*or Millennium won't know to pass it along.)
