Filmmaker Raises Enough Money To Produce Film On South Philadelphia's Anderson Monarchs
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A filmmaker has surpassed his pledge goals and will get the money he needs to finish his documentary on an all girls African-American soccer team in South Philadelphia.
Filmmaker Eugene Martin needed pledges of $25,000 by this afternoon in order to get the money he needed to finish his film on the Anderson Monarchs of South Philadelphia, the only all girls nationally competitive African-American soccer team in the U.S.
Martin received $9,000 in pledges in three days and went over the goal more than 24 hours early. He says pledges came from everywhere.
"People from my past who have found out about it, former students from Temple University, industrial execs who don't even know me, they have a daughter that plays soccer."
Martin says the fundraising will not only help him edit his film by fall, but has attracted attention for the team and piqued the interest of Hollywood.
Reported by Karin Phillips, KYW Newsradio
