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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

 

BRAVA BENEFIT DONORS:
Barbara Price and David Greenberger
Lucy & Emanuel Aron
Libby and Marc Scancarello
Eric Page
Melanie Born
Madeline Duva
Roma Guy
Steve Phillips
James Baraz
Jennifer Suttlemyre
Allison Post
Sharen Hewitt
Mark Sorenson and Danielle Ciccorelli
Nicole Nunes
Julie Hemker
Delisa Sage
Mitra Tyree
Shirley Gutierrez
Laurel Reitman
Peggy Ann Ford
Hadas Rin
Debbie Baker
Kevin Cain
Brenda Berlin
Armando & Linda Telles
Charmaine Lewis
Roxanne Worthington
and more than 200 others who attended our benefit screening. Thank you all for your support!

AUCTION DONORS:
Traci Des Jardins, Chef/Owner, Jardiniere Restaurant, SF
Annie Wood, Chef/Owner, The Essanay Café, Fremont
The An Family, Crustacean Restaurants
Meg Dakin, Sonoma Coast House
Daniel Macchiarini, Macchiarini Creative Design
Chloe Jackman, Shaklee Associate
Emma Mankin, painter
Zara Mankin Katz, photographer
Martha Richards, Executive Director, SWAN Day
Aileen Hernandez
Armistead Maupin
Gado Gado International, Santa Rosa
Sports Basement
Collage Gallery, Delisa Sage, Owner
Enduring Comforts, Freestone
Bloom Painting, Inc.
Clear Channel
American Conservatory Theater
California Shakespeare Festival
Women’s Independent Cinema

Honorary Hosts
Aileen Hernandez - Former National NOW President
Sharen Hewitt & The CLAER Project
Roma Guy - Women's and Health Advocate


Supporting Organizations
California Women’s Agenda
Women’s Intercultural Network
Black Women Stirring the Waters

 

 

Auction Winning Bidders
Rosemary & Bill Boorman
Gary Hagen
Sarah Hirschfeld-Sussman
Sandra Luce
Ann Brinkley
Elyse Derbes
Bryan Cooper
Neal Wood
Nancy Aimola
Morgan Monet
Dorothy Langlois
Margo Cristein
Dawn Logsdon
G.J. MacDonnell
Eileen Murphy
Sports Basement
Antonia Burrows
Keely Marengo
J. Winick
Miriam Telles
Joyce Reitman

 

DONATED FOOD
Ariel Rose Varney, Copia
Sandra Luce, Beam Wine Estates
Annie Wood, The Essanay Café
Jean-Yves Charon, Galaxy Desserts
LeBeau Nob Hill Market, San Francisco
Whole Foods, Sebastopol

 

 

EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS
Martha Richards
WomenArts

The Brava Theater Center,
Cathie Anderson and Angela Carrier
Darryl Vance
Deborah Pardes
Ruth Mankin
Joan Mankin
Catalina Castillo
Marissa Bloom
Margo Cristein
Chloe Jackman
Annie Wood
Paoli Lacy
Clare Munn
Sarah Varney