Kedi on the Vlogbrothers channel for YouTube Red subscribers (2017)
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2017-11-28)
In May 2017 the documentary Kedi became available on the Vlogbrothers channel for subscribers. By November John said the money from helping distribute it largely explained the Foundation's larger balance than a year earlier.
Parts: Hank asks viewers who can to watch Kedi on the Vlogbrothers channel (2017)
About: Kedi
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-10 | launched | Hank says the film is now, or will very shortly be, available on the Vlogbrothers channel for subscribers. | Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes 00:01:42 |
| 2017-11-28 | outcome | John says money made helping distribute Kedi largely explains why the Foundation has $15,000 more than a year ago. | Let's Talk about Money 00:01:09 |
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2017-05-10 · Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes — announcement: Hank says YouTube Red came to the brothers having acquired an award-winning documentary it wanted to make available to YouTube Red subscribers. — 00:01:02
- 2017-05-10 · Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes — announcement: Hank: Since YouTube cannot create a channel per documentary, YouTube Red asked the brothers to watch the film, which they did and both loved, and if they liked it to talk about it and upload it on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:01:11
- 2017-05-10 · Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes — Hank says the film is really good and has about 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. (hedged) — 00:01:48
- 2017-05-10 · Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes — Hank says the film is about street cats in Istanbul, which are cared for by the city's humans but not owned by any one person. — 00:01:54
- 2017-05-10 · Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes — Hank says Kedi fittingly asks us to slow down and be okay spending time watching pretty pictures and stories about the cats' lives. — 00:02:10
- 2017-05-10 · Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes — Hank says the film, which Variety called 'quietly magical', asks us to just exist for a little while. — 00:02:42
- 2017-05-10 · Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes — Hank talked with the film's makers, Ceyda Torun and Charlie Wuppermann. — 00:02:50
- 2017-05-10 · Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes — Hank says looking at himself through a cat's eyes gives a perspective hard to find otherwise, one the movie discovers and shares well. (hedged) — 00:03:08
- 2017-05-16 · The Introducer, My Childhood Dream Job — John: That is why John loves Kedi and wanted them to help distribute it: it uses nature-documentary conventions but includes humans, showing how a city, its people and its cats connect. — 00:02:24
- 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — John says the Foundation has about $125,000 in the bank, $15,000 more than a year ago, largely thanks to money made helping distribute the documentary Kedi. — 00:01:04