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The Pitch! How you can support the film.

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Pipe Dreams and Pizza Crusts is a new documentary about the weird and wonderful (and loud!) Organ Grinder restaurants in Portland and Denver. I’ve been working full time all year to cover every angle of this amazing story, and I’ve invested a significant amount of my own money in this project. But now, it’s time to take the project to the next level, and I need your help to make that happen. Please watch my pitch:

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