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We need your help to launch the film nationally!
Seneca Falls will be jointly presented to PBS stations across the country by KRCB-TV in Northern California, home of the cast and filmmakers, and WXXI-TV in Rochester, NY, home of the women’s rights historic sites. It is being offered to all stations for a March 2010 Women’s History Month special. Check your local listings, as they say! And if you belong to an organization that can encourage viewers to tune into the broadcast, please consider making a gracious inquiry to the PBS program director in your area, to encourage them to broadcast the film and to let them know you can inform your members or students who will be eagerly awaiting the air date!
Beginning this month, we must mount a "station relations" campaign to maximize carriage that includes sending out DVDs and marketing materials to all PBS program directors across the country. We must create new broadcast masters, closed-caption them, and run them through PBS technical standards. All this means we need an immediate cash influx of $5500. At the same time, we are embarking on a mountain of work to build and carry out the film's educational outreach campaign, create curriculum guides, and mount the BEYOND Seneca Falls website over the next 12 to 18 months. We're establishing relationships and working with youth empowerment organizations, women's groups and educators. We continue seeking grants for our outreach budget which is going to cost a minimum of $50K.
We can’t do this alone!
So we’re reaching out to all our supporters for your help in raising these funds - so we can give this "foundational film" (in the words of a PBS executive last week) the push it needs to make as great an impact as possible.
AND.....Our national outreach campaign will include screenings at schools, conferences, universities, after-school programs, corporations, festivals and other public venues, before, during and after the PBS broadcast premiere. An organization can purchase a copy of the film with a viewing guide, and schedule their screening. Email us and we'll help you make that happen! info@senecafallsfilm.org
Please consider purchasing a copy of the film or making a donation of any amount today!
 
We
are fiscally sponsored by WomenArts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,
which allows us to offer you tax deductions for your contributions.
You
can also mail a donation - and please write "Seneca Falls" in the memo line - to:
WomenArts
3739
Balboa Street #181
San
Francisco, CA 94121
Phone:
(415) 751-2202
website
info@womenarts.org
Please
make checks payable to WomenArts. This ensures that you’ll receive
an acknowledgement letter for tax purposes, and your donation
will be available for our project.
Thank you!
The Next Phase
Now
that we’re entering the film’s distribution and
outreach phase, we need support from the community that has
formed around Seneca Falls. So here is our wish list –
some ways you can help in addition to buying a DVD for yourself,
someone in your life, or your local school or alma mater.
WISH LIST:
Spread
the word on Facebook, MySpace or your own social networks
Tell all the educators in your life about the film and where to buy a DVD
Donate air miles so we can attend screenings, conferences
and festivals
Contribute ideas or be a guest blogger on BEYOND Seneca Falls
Contribute links to organizations with similar
missions
Contact the media and see if you can get us publicity or press
Contact television program executives you know who
would screen the film
Connect us with foundations or individuals that might want
to sponsor a screening or support our national educational
outreach campaign
Recommend a great educational distributor
Recommend a publicist who could donate some time to our outreach project
Help us develop study guides (teachers -- share your lesson plans!)
Contact women and girls’ organizations that would purchase
DVDs for their constituents or to donate to schools
Help us find outreach funding
Write a review, or just send us your thoughts after watching
the film!
Make a donation yourself - to help offset our DVD production
and distribution costs
Please contact Louise@senecafallsfilm.org if you can help out in any of these ways. Thanks!
MAJOR
FUNDERS:
THE
SCHULTZ FOUNDATION
THE
VANGUARD PUBLIC FOUNDATION
THE
RICHARD C. MUNROE FOUNDATION
ARTHUR
& SHIRLEY MANKIN
MIRACLE
THEATER COMMUNITY FUND
THE
AEPOCH HEALING ARTS FUND
THE
FLEDGLING FUND
(Outreach grant)
PEG
YORKIN
Education Outreach
IN KIND DONATIONS AND SUPPORT:
Post
Production:PHOENIX
EDIT.EFFECTS.DESIGN, San Francisco.
Lisa Hinman, president; John Crossley & Aaron Owen, on-line
editors; Sheila Smith, operations manager; Jonathan Hinman, executive
producer
POMEGRANIT
EDITORIAL, Mitra Tyree & Randy Trefzger, owners;
Julie Morrandez, executive producer
Sound
Design and Mix: POLARITY
POST, Patrick Fitzgerald, Mixer
Production
Interns: Sarah Horsley, Katrina Drabkin, Daniel Newcomb
Production
Assistance: Hilary Morgan, Richard Neill at Adventure Pictures,
Claudia Katayanagi, Videofax
Post-Production Assistance: Shirley Gutierrez, Steve Tomich
of Avid Technologies, Michele Acosta and Jim Bartel at Western
Images, Angela Washington, Bill Weber, Connor MacDonald, Al Owens
at Motion Music, Kathryn Clubb and Linda Reid
Web
and Graphic Design: Darryl Vance
Production
Volunteers: Hayley Moffett, Karen Auschenbach, Sonja Lindstrom,
Mary Granfors, Michele Dennis, Robin Mortarotti, Nora Cadena,
Ruth Mankin
Housing
in Seneca Falls: Erika Cooney, Hobart & Smith Dorms
INDIVIDUAL
DONORS:
Tom Shiosaka and Roxanne Worthington
Kathleen Kennedy
Joan Mankin
Barbara Davidson
Natalie Freeberg and Brian Ferguson
Helen Argyres
Kimberly Salter
Claire Ucovich
Calvin Houts and Brent Henderson
Time Warner, Inc. (matching donation)
Karen Aschenbach
Edna Vance
Dr. Leah Dickstein
Allison Post
Barbara Price and David Greenberger
Lucy and Emmanuel Aron
Phyllis J. Cohen |
