While we’re touting the project of one of our Capitol Hill film-related partners, another needs your help. Just got this plea for donations from 12th Ave’s Northwest Film Forum’s director Lyall Bush:
I am writing to you to ask for your help. I am asking you for $10, the price of an average movie ticket. The Film Forum has had done many great things this year, but much like other organizations our income is off by 30%. And while we remain scrappy and imaginative in tough spots, this time is different.
We are looking at real changes at the Film Forum unless you say yes and support us. We need to reach a goal of $70,000 by August 15. Please walk it in, mail it in, or click here to make your donation.
You and 10,000 others are receiving this, which means you regularly find our emails and enews in our inbox, which means that you care, too. Maybe you even love what we do and believe the city is a better place – more sophisticated, inspired, or just more fun — because of the films we show here, the summer filmmaking camps we offer to kids, the screenwriting and film editing classes we schedule, the filmmakers we bring to town (and the classes they teach), and the movies we are so instrumental in getting made.
Classes, filmmaker support, equipment rental, special screenings, and film series, many of these programs may be put on hold, shelved, or stopped altogether without your small gift. That means programs such as Soul Nite and ByDesign could go. It means fewer masterpieces such as “Silent Light” showing up on our screens. It means maybe no more camera rentals. Jobs and programs are on the line.
By e-mail, Bush said NWFF is facing a $70,000 gap in its 2009 budget. “We need general operating expenses — cash to keep the lights on, the computers running, films shipped, the staff and teachers paid, the projectors maintained, the summer camps running — are key,” Bush wrote.
He also said he is seeing a good response to his plea for help. “In the few minutes since the message went out my inbox has filled with reports from Groundswell, which receives our online gifts. Every minute a new burst of gifts arrives.”
NWFF and CHS are partners. We provide advertising for NWFF to let you know about their films and programs in exchange for promotional opportunities at NWFF screenings and events.
Just sent my 50.00 donation. As far as real culture on the Hill, this is a main peg. We need to keep them functioning and viable . I see a film there about every two weeks, far more than the mainstream showings.
Send any amount, they are grassroots to the max. The roots need to support them.
(and the popcorn is decent)
I love NWFF. I should go to more shows, but even at my sporadic attendance levels, it’s a treasured part of my cultural life.
If you haven’t been to see one of their shows, lately, check ’em out. Then, please join me in making a donation!
from the entire nwff staff – thank you everyone for your support! we love you. you are why we are here. thanks for spreading the word.
but I’ll definitely pitch in!
Love this place–especially since we’ve seen two director Q&A’s this year, and at least one of those was awesome…
Anyway, I <3 NWFF, and I'm glad you do too.