Thanks to the wonderful announcement in the middle of the ring by Jim Smallman on Day 2 of Super Strong Style 16 we not only have a brand new trailer for you but a firm date confirmed for our UK inaugural screening! See the new trailer at the bottom of this post...

Tickets are £12 and you can buy them here - ON SALE AT 5PM, LINK TO BE UPDATED

​As the edit nears completion (5 months now!) we are gearing up and planning for our eventual film's release. This means our director/producer Dale and co-editor/associate producer Ross will be descending on Amsterdam for a week of meetings with film festivals, sales agents and distributors. This is all so we can get this amazing film (that you helped to see fruition) to as many people around the world as possible. 

Film Festivals are an amazing experience for me as a filmmaker because I get to watch loads of films/documentaries, months before they're released and then go and have beers with the filmmakers! Plus I get to mingle with and have meetings with buyers, sales agents, people who run other film festivals and distributors. 

The point of all this: my intention is for this documentary to play in cinemas here in the UK and eventually abroad too. By taking these meetings (and I've got some really exciting ones in the diary already) I get to plant my release plan ideas into the film/documentary industry folks nice and early. Plus I get to tell people who have traveled from all over the globe about the wonderful things that are happening in PROGRESS. 
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And that's vital for me because I want the whole world to know about the family that has grown from the humble beginnings of the Garage in Islington just 5 and a half years ago. I'll post a pic or two if I get a moment.

​In other news we held a screening of a rough cut of THIS.IS.PROGRESS. the day after our last chapter show filming in the Ballroom on Monday 30th. It was a surreal affair for myself to be honest as I was bloody terrified! But, it went extremely well, there was laughter, there was more than a few tears, excitement and more laughter. We're really looking forward to actually being able to show this to you.
I'll be getting back on the rewards case once I return home, so expect some more updates and dates before Christmas. In the meantime I'll leave you with a screengrab of a small portion of my edit work space from a scene. 

​Bye for now folks, I'm super proud of the direction in which this film is heading and if it can capture just 10% of the heart and passion that courses through PROGRESS then I think people just might like this documentary.
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With love,
Dale 
director/producer

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Yesterday (May 20th) we had a remarkable day. 

We were extremely lucky to have been backed (by a single backer) to the tune of £2,500! That one pledge equating to 10% of our entire budget and puts us that amount closer to reaching our goal of £25,000.

​We now stand at £21,541, 86% funded from 385 backers with 11 days to go!

Also, in the build up to next weekend's massive 3 day SuperStrongStyle16 weekender at PROGRESS, starting today we will be releasing a brand new pledge perk everyday until next Thursday and a new video everyday until next Friday. Oh and a brand spanking new trailer on Monday 22nd! Nice.

Here's a couple of our wrestler appeal videos where they tell us (and you) why this film is important to them.
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Best,
Dale
#THISISPROGRESS

On the first day of our campaign alone we hit a monumental figure of £8,800! 8 days later we are +£16k funded with 325+ generous backers delving into their pockets for some amazing rewards in return.

We saw some of our incredible exclusive rewards get snapped up in record time too.

• Our coffee table book with photography by James Musselwhite, aka 'Portrait of a Wrestler', limited to 20 copies all went within 24 hours of launch.
• The first 50 copies of our 'Main Card' pledge (a digital download of the finished film for £15) saw a limited edition A3 poster included for free. All gone!
• We introduced (limited to 2 backer) wrestler tutorials with Mark Haskins, Jimmy Havoc and Matthew Riddle. They also all went super quick
• ​And the big one, a one-off donation from the boys at PROGRESS themselves, your own entrance at a live PROGRESS show!!! Complete with music, and your moment on digital format to keep.
  Oh, and it also comes with 2 front row tickets to that show!!! Or rather I should say it "came" with 2 front row tickets as that was snapped up on the first day too!

Thank you one and all for liking, sharing, pledging and supporting us. Together, we can get there.

Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing campaign so if you keep telling people and pledging toward our film, we'll keep our end of the bargain and make the best feature documentary we possibly can. Plus we'll probably launch a few more exclusive rewards along the way too... 

Best,
Dale Beaumont-Brown
director/producer

We are extraordinarily thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter campaign is now live!
Click the picture above to visit our Kickstarter campaign page.

With about 6 months of planning and a whole heap of exciting (and some very exclusive) rewards finally collated, we have finally arrived at launch day. And we’re announcing it via our new, snazzy blog. Looks alright doesn’t it?

I thought I’d just say a couple of words to the extent of, a huge thank you to all of the people who have asked/pleaded/nagged/demanded that we turn our lovely little short documentary into a feature length documentary. Without you watching, sharing and telling all your friends and family about what we’ve done (with basically no budget!) we wouldn’t be here in this position today talking to you about the fact we’re making this feature! It’s genuinely one of the biggest reasons why we’ve been able to justify embarking down the (quite expensive) road of getting a film about PROGRESS Wrestling into cinemas.

Well, the other reason being one that's quite important: we really really REALLY want to make this film as we see it being something to not only entertain you, but to inform and move you emotionally.


So let’s briefly talk about our super Kickstarter campaign…