$25 will pay for the production of discussion materials for each event, including Film and Filmmaker introductions, Discussion Guides and Action Toolkits.
$60 will pay for a filmmaker/presenter’s per-event stipend.
$200 will pay for the screening equipment, room rental and other event logistics.
$500 will pay for the travel and accommodation to a national event for a filmmaker/presenter.
$1000 will sponsor a Greater Boston event.
$1500 will sponsor an event in a city like Salt Lake City, Nashville, Houston, or Des Moines – where 10-30% of residents are foreign-born but 50-100% of the state’s representatives have voted against immigrants on national legislation.
$4500 will sponsor a 3-event trip to one of these cities.
$1-20,000 – Hours of people power it takes to coordinate and evaluate even just one event.
Support of CSFilm enables us to:
>> Train, mentor and collaborate with local storytellers from underrepresented communities in documentary filmmaking and video-journalism;
>> Facilitate their production of powerful stories that visualize and articulate economic and social challenges from the local perspective;
>>Build and strengthen distribution networks between local social-issue mediamakers, their communities and an international community of concerned citizens.
A new study into the representation of women in media says news organizations should do more to include female perspectives. The first step to achieving that equity is for journalists to acknowledge that imbalance exists in newsrooms and news production, Luba Kassova, who authored the report, told VOA. The report, “The Missing Perspectives of Women in News” — commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — focused on India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Britain and the U.S.
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