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Ghosts Float

The Dyersville St Patrick’s Day Parade is one of the communty's most-loved and attended events. Here are a few highlights of this year's parade. Got to say it was great to see the Ghosts on the Field of Dreams-themed St. Pat's float.

Hello Hometown

“ROUTER” is having its Dubuque Premier, screening three times during the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival (JIFFD), April 4-7.
The principle cast and a few key crew members will be joining Tim Connery for Q&A sessions following the screenings.

Gary Busey, is this year's honorary chair for the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival. We are hoping he gets this excited about our films.

We are looking forward to helping promote his Busey Foundation for Children's Kawasaki Disease Education and Research during the festival's Cause We Can - Film Event with Gary Busey on Friday, April 5, 7 pm at the Hotel Julien.

There will be a special screening of his Academy Award nominated performance in "The Buddy Holly Story". Gary will also speak about the work of the Busey Foundation for Children's Kawasaki Disease, Education and Research.

ROUTER New Name for Easton

The documentary, Ghost Player: Relive the Magic, was the first feature movie for DreamCatcher Productions (DCP). Now DreamCatcher is helping with a sci-fi/drama called “ROUTER”. Joe Scherrman owner of DCP is one of the executive producers and is the post–production supervisor for the feature film “ROUTER”. Suzie Wright is one of the film's line producers. Tim Connery, producer/writer/director for “ROUTER”, is now managing the DCP office in Dubuque, Iowa.

When the movie “Field of Dreams” was in production it was actually called “Shoeless Joe”. It was changed to “Field of Dreams” for marketing reasons. So it is with “ROUTER”. “EASTON’S ARTICLE” was the original title while being shot in and around Dubuque, but changed to “ROUTER” shortly after being picked up for distribution by Rogue Arts.

Play Ball

The opening day of Iowa's most famous baseball field was this weekend. That's right, the Field of Dreams is open for frolicking in the outfield and having a catch in the bullpen.

The first offical tourists of 2013 have already loaded the bases on the beloved diamond and discovered that the new owners are ready to ensure the continuing magical setting.

An Impact on the Community

DreamCatcher’s Suzanne Wright was nominated and won a 356 Impact Award to recognize her efforts to promote volunteerism in the community. The 365 Impact Award is a steel sculpture, hand crafted by local artist, Gene Tully.

During her acceptance speech, Wright confessed to being a “serial volunteer” who like the many others in the crowded Mississippi Moon Bar, doesn’t “volunteer for the recognition, but man alive, it feels good” to be recognized for the efforts. She then promptly invited the crowd to contact her if they were looking to volunteer, because she knew about a few opportunities that were in need of good people for the upcoming Julien Dubuque International Film Festival. No wonder, Wright has been dubbed, by the festival’s directors as one of the super volunteers that helped make last year’s festival such a success.

Wright accepting the "Tully" at the Mississippi Moon Bar. Photo by Steven Schleuning.

Newsletter Staff

Contributors: Joe Scherrman, Charlie Cunliffe, Tim Connery, and photographs courtesy of Ron Tigges, Digital Dubuque and Steven Schleuning.

Editor: Suzie Wright

Blowing the Whistle on Kevin Costner

Honorary Ghost Player, Nic Ungs and Kevin Costner hanging out in a lockeroom while Nic was a major league ballplayer.

Oscar-winner, Kevin Costner will soon be setting aside his bat and glove to wear the coach's whistle in the film, Draft Day.

Nic Ungs, Dyersville native was drafted by the Florida Marlins in 2001, he teamed up with DreamCatcher Productions to wear the Ghost Player stripes for a baseball documentary shot in Clinton for a TV series for the Major League Baseball Network.

Colts Documentary Help Needed

The Colts are the last Division One drum corps in Iowa and they've been around for 50 years. Preservation and access of the stories and history of the Colts Drum & Bugle Corp is right up the alley for the production company of the Ghost Player Project. Suzie Wright, publisher of the Ghost Companion book "Travels With Ghosts and Other Tales" is one of the producers for the new Colts documentary. Suzie's team, including DreamCatcher Productions, hopes to have a completed film in time for the Colts' 50th Season Music on the March drum corps competition.

You can help produce this movie. The Colts project is currently seeking funding through a creative web-based fundraising campaign through Kickstarter. For a $25 pledge you will receive the Colts DVD when the funding goal is reached. Kickstarter is an all or nothing program so we must reach our goal or we will not recieve any of the pleged funds. The goal is to raise at least $10,000 by early April. The campaign has only a few days left to reach the goal. Please check out the project's trailer.

Ghost Players Archive Ready to Go On Deck

The major finagling is done and the Ghost Players Collection Video Archive was recently sent to the Internet Archive to make sure the format works for them.

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, that is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. They provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. It is an honor be included by this organiztion. The Ghost Players Collection consists of almost 60 hours and more than 6,000 clips of the Ghost Players and their travels between 1989 and 2008. Having the archive accessible to as many people as possible is the mission and reason for Ghost Player LLC.

The experience gathered by Ghost Player and their vendor DreamCatcher Production has opened many doors for other projects. Three more documentaries are in various stages of development.

DreamCatcher is proud to be working with:
Creative Maxiums “We Will Be Back” Lake Delhi
Brick Road Films “Dust to Dust” Historic Millworks District
Colts Cavalcade "No Boundaries" Colts Youth Organzation

ADDY-itional Awards

These chiseled-clear acrylic awards recognizing excellence in advertising are called ADDYS.

The awards were presented to the DreamCatcher Productions team during the annual ADDY Awards held by the American Advertising Federation of Dubuque.

The team won silver awards for their Dark Chamber Zombie Apocalypse and Mystic Tattoo commercials. Their third was for one of the coveted Final Fifteen Awards and was presented to the team for their Integrated Media campaign promoting Easton’s Article.

Now called "ROUTER," the sci-fi feature is in competition at the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival April 4 - 7 in Dubuque, Iowa.

In 2009, DreamCatcher won a Gold ADDY, and a Final Fifteen ADDY for their marketing efforts related to their first feature-length documentary, Ghost Player: Relive the Magic.

Matthew's on the Mend

Thanks for the many prayers for Little Matthew. He continues to do well after his heart surgery.

Ghost Player papa, Tony Scherrman, is already looking forward to the days when it will they can have a catch at the field of Dreams.

Obviously, big sister, Elizabeth, was more interested in their grandparents than her little brother or parents.

Lives Unfold When Stories Are Told - Julien Dubuque International Film Festival

Ghost Players take the stage at the Launch party during last year's Julien Dubuque International Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Ron Tigges, Digital Dubuque.

The upcoming Julien Dubuque International Film Festival holds special significance to the DreamCatcher team. Last year, DreamCatcher came on as a corporate sponsor and the documentary “Ghost Player: Relive the Magic” enjoyed screening at the inaugural festival. The Ghost Players themselves made a special appearance during the opening celebration. DCP also helped create some of the opening night’s video introduction to Iowa films and created a highlights video of the 2012 festival.

This year:

Scherrman has joined the festival’s Film Society.

DreamCatcher Productions is an official sponsor of the festival and created a highlights reel for this year’s reveal party that announced that this year’s festival honorary chairperson is Oscar-nominated Gary Busey.

Wright is slated to volunteer at a few of the venues, including the Friday night Cause We Can Event that will showcase “The Busey Foundation for Children's Kawasaki Disease.”

Ghost Actor/Musician has Fantastic Rock-Pop Adventure

Rob Cunliffe, representing the Ghost Player: Relive the Magic documentary at an event in LA/Hollywood.

The song, I’m That Man, by ‘Almost Classy’ official music video can be seen here. Rob Cunliffe is Actor/Musician and, at one time, a Ghost Player's movie representative. Charlie and Mary Cunliffe are his parents and are producing, in association with DreamCatcher Productions, the new film about Lake Delhi called "We Will Be Back." Congrats, Rob on you success. Love the music video. Hope to get you all to perform in Dubuque someday.

Rob Cunliffe's band "Almost Classy" won first place in the Indie Spotlight Band of the month at AlternativeAddiction.com.

Almost Classy's debut EP is a fantastic Rock-Pop adventure, due out on April 23rd 2013. Almost Classy’s sound is phenomenally catchy. Comprised of Aaron Bernbach (Vocals, Rhythm Guitar),

First Competitive Game Ever Played at the Field of Dreams

1991- Sept. 2 Major League stars that played with the Upper Deck All-Stars in the first competitive game ever played on the Field of Dreams. Look for the former Major League players incluing: Curt Flood, Joe Hoerner, Joe Pepitone, Jimmy Piersall, Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Randy Hundley, Jose Cardenal, Gene Oliver, Jay Johnstone, Lou Brock, and Reggie Jackson. You may even find fellow fantasy baseball camper Joe Scherrman in the group.