Welcome to the web page for the film Project: By Love and Grace	Project Status Qualifications Of Project Staff Back To Main Page of GLP Back To Project Page Investing in By Love and Grace Celebrity Fundraising Auction   Why a movie?	Project Status  Help support the project DonateMovie bio  Log line and Synopsis  Contact Information Project Budget	UPDATE - As of 4/27/05 – A professional film budget is being prepared by a top rate Producer/ Director  Paul Sirmons.   The script is COMPLETE  and rewrote by one of the top Hollywood script writers. Esther Luttrell! We are pleased to have Esther Luttrell  and Paul Sirmons helping us.  -

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Note: 100% of all funds raise will be used for the movie and or donating/mailing the finished product to public libraries and schools.

• Target Market 1 – General Public -  We hear from the general public, after explaining dyslexia " I did not know or understand what you deal with!" It is always great to enlighten someone on dyslexia, but difficult to meet everyone across the world one-on-one. So, to reach mass audiences, a movie fits the need. A movie people can understand and feel what it's like to have a learning disability. With getting some of the best in the business to work on the film project, the film will be entertaining and appealing to the public, as a “Beautiful Mind” did for its topic.
  

• Target Market 2 – 10-15% Public with Dyslexia - One survey reported that 98-94% of the population, with a learning disability, do not even realize they have a disability.  They just view themselves as stupid.  They are not stupid at all but a people with smart minds inside a body trying to communicate to the world.   The movie will help each of them take that 1st step to understanding themselves and their disability.  Understanding is the key in the 1st step in leading happy and fulfilling lives.  Note: 75% of troubled teens have a learning disability, and are striking out for not being understood or understanding why they can't read or write.
  

• Target Market 3 – Parents or Teachers - The last comment we hear is from the parents and teachers: “I could not understand why she/he would do things that way, now I do." Some groups like to call learning disabilities, learning differently.  With movie, we will teach having a learning disability is like modern art.  No two people see the same picture, so why should we assume that all people learn the same?  Learning is also like a tailored suit; it takes a while and is unique to the individual.  To learn you must use your gifts, and so we ask for your gifted of a donation to help other.
  

So, to answer the question, " Why this movie?" our response is that we want to help and inform on a larger scale. We plan on entering the film in film festivals, hopefully win awards and get national attention. The movie would not be short lived, after reaching the TV, film festivals and theaters, the film will have a second long-lived life of helping countless people with the timeless topic of dyslexia in an entertaining format.  We estimate the film being view by schools, learning disability groups, public libraries, and people with learning disabilities and parents countless times.   Just think, in the classes are tomorrow's leaders or troubled teens and with your help we could help them to be leaders and not troubled teens by giving the greatest gift of all, hope and understanding.

 So again, To learn you must use your gifts, and so we ask for your gifted of a donation to help other.

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The movie is biased on DT publishing best selling book "Dyslexia My Life".. - Buy the book or book on tape from GLP and the movie project gets 50% of the proceeds.

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Also Note:  100% of all funding collected for this project are tracked and only spent on the project, no funds are used for overhead or operational expenses.

Donation and get a Tax Break from the I.R.S. and do some real good with your money. GLP is a Non-Profit 501(c)(3) tax deductible Organization. Mail check to: GLP- Movie, PO BOX 7003, Lee's Summit, MO 64064-7003 or Credit Card holders:

 

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Also as special thanks for your involvement in the dream, we keep you updated on the status of our project by e-mail (if you wish). We feel that this is the least we can do for your help and support.   You might want to know some of the other that have donated : Bruce Jenner, Dan Aykroyd, The group Kutless, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Steven King and Jennifer Aniston.
Note: All donations are sickly confidential unless other wise specified

Note: We reserve the right to reject any group's name that might harm the "good" public opinion of the movie or offend any other group.  Also after the credits display, supporting celebrity's credit will display for supporting celebrities and already we have such names as Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.  We have worked hard to bridge the gap and anticipate receiving grants and donations from private sector sources, banks, foundations and private donors. Because we are a not for profit, we are planning on ‘gift in kind’ work from the actors and local talent. The film would shoot in Kansas city. Note: 100% percentage of  funds will be used toward program expenses and 0% percentage of requested funds that will be used toward operational expenses.
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Qualifications of those who will be engaged in the project:

- Exec Producer, Project Manager & Film Festal entry/ Marketing Person Esther Luttrell.
- Exec Producer Assistant, Script Writers & Fund/Grant Writer (Girard Sagmiller)
Being dyslexic and understanding it, Girard Sagmiller is a disability motivational speaker to classes and Fortune 500 Corporations. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows including Fox News and also been featured in business and parenting publications.  Authored the DT Publishing's best selling autobiographic book, DYSLEXIA MY LIFE. The book won teacher's pick award. Guest/keynote speaker at the Internal, state and regional learning disability conferences.  Guest speaker for countless Teacher workshops and classroom discussions from small rural schools to Notre Dame.  Winner of the Ronald E. Weger award for public awareness of dyslexia. Girard servers as board member for Kansas/Western Missouri Branch of Internal Dyslexia Association and President of the board and co-founder for The Gifted Learning Project both (501(c)3) organization. Girard also travels internationally as a computer consultant for a worldwide organization and moonlights as a professional model and actor for companies such as Levi Jeans and Anheuser-Busch Inc.
- Administrative Assistant & Marketing (Sherri Kerie)
- Sherri Kerie as achieved top 1% as a sales representative for one of the top 2 pharmaceutical companies for 2 years running. Sherri is a results oriented person with a strong background in organizational excellence demonstrated through continuous improvement modeling in organizational development.
- Web Master/Developer/Web Hosting (Don Arnold)
- Don Arnold, as a Microsoft certified engineer, he has developed award winning web sites from small to large companies.
- Project Accountant (Jeff Gross) The Gifted Learning Project treasure and also dyslexic.
- 1 Camera person (not selected yet), 2 Grips and 1 Assist Director (not selected yet), 3 PA's, 1 Makeup, 1 Script Person, 1 Sound Person, Producer, Director (not selected yet)

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