Updates

Join our mailing list by going to our contact page and clicking "join mailing list". We have completed prinicpal photography and The Jacques Bolsey Project is currently in the editing phase.

Summer/Fall, 2016
- Currently finishing editing and fundraising for finishing funds. Please check out our donate page if you'd like to get involved. Donations to our project are tax-deductible!
- "The Jacques Bolsey Project" aka "Beyond the Bolex" is honored to be one of 5 projects nominated for the Filmmaker Post-Production Award by the 'Association for the Promotion of Film in Switzerland.' We find out if we won on Sept 24th, 2016!
- If all goes well with securing finishing funds we hope for a spring or summer 2017 film festival premiere!
- July 2016- Pick-up shoot in Kingston, MA.

2015
- principal photography
- begun editing

2014
- Kick off principal photography for "The Jacques Bolsey Project" aka "Beyond the Bolex"
- Early shoots with Bolsey family members about the inventor.
- Bolex filmmaker interviews

March 2013 - The documentary team launches a Kickstarter campaign at the SXSW Trade Show in Austin Texas.

November 2012 - Director Alyssa Bolsey and Producer Werner Schweizer pitch the documentary to a receptive table of commissioning editors from around the world.

October 2012 - “The Jacques Bolsey Project” aka “Beyond the Bolex” is invited to pitch at IDFA’s Round Table Forum in Amsterdam in November.

February 2012 - The first half of Bolsey's journal is deciphered and researched.

January 2012 – Development trip in Switzerland brings about new leads on Bolsey’s story. Develops partnership with AKKA Films and Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion to co-produce "The Jacques Bolsey Project."

November 2011 - Releases development trailer to investors.

August 2011 - Travels to East Coast to shoot pitch trailer and uncover new JB documents and artifacts.

June 2011
- HME joins to produce project.

March 2011 - Contact made with Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion to discuss possible Swiss co-production. Meeting with HME to consult financing options.

January 2011 - The Jacques Bolsey Project has been accepted by the International Documentary Association for fiscal sponsorship. We now have the support of one of the most respected documentary associations around and, as one of the many benefits of that support, we are able to accept tax-deductible donations through the IDA. Check out our donate page to support the project.

December 2010 - Janelle Geaber, producer and partner at Hurricane Pictures Entertainment, has joined The Jacques Bolsey Project as producer. Director Alyssa Bolsey welcomes Janelle to the team.

November 2010 - Decades after his death, Jacques Bolsey’s belongings have been found. With these inventions, documents, journal, pictures and films, his story is being pieced together.

Our hope is for a Winter/Spring 2012 release. Check back for additional information as the project progresses.

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