From Your Arts Engine Peers: A $10,000 CHALLENGE

Dear Friends of Arts Engine:

During a time of newly found optimism, we are asking you to join us in making an online donation to one of our favorite organizations, Arts Engine—the folks who bring us the Media That Matters Film Festival, MediaRights.org, Big Mouth Films and DocuClub. As your peers in the independent media world, we feel it is important to band together to keep the organizations we love in good working order.

Arts Engine received a $10,000 challenge grant from one of its strongest local supporters, Guy Lancaster and his family at the Still Point Fund. If all of us reading this letter now donate $35 or more, Arts Engine can reach the $10,000 level and meet Guy’s challenge in no time. All fifteen of us made a donation to kick things off. Won’t you join us?

Click here to support the Peer2Peer Campaign.

By making a donation to this Peer2Peer campaign as a community, we are making a statement to all stakeholders of social-issue media and documentary film that we value the work that Arts Engine does.

Join us and make a contribution now. The amount is not as important as 100% participation. Consider contributing $35, $100, $250, $500 or more.

Click here to support the Peer2Peer Campaign.
Click here to look at what Arts Engine is up to in 2009.

Your donation will help to ensure that:

• The ninth collection of Media That Matters streams and screens in more classrooms, community organizations and on more computers across the country and around the world than ever before
• MediaRights.org’s new exciting content, to be launched this summer, reaches a greater numbers with more in-depth coverage (Stay tuned!)
• Big Mouth Films finishes a rough cut of its current feature documentary, Rose & Nangabire
• DocuClub’s monthly screenings continue to positively impact our work and make a rich contribution to the field

Thank you for joining us in this Peer2Peer Campaign for Arts Engine. Your support is important for Arts Engine and for the field of independent social-issue media.

Your peers,

Barbara Abrash, Director of Public Programs, Center for Media, Culture and History & Center for Religion and Media, New York University
Phil Bertelsen, Director, Outside Looking In
Sharese Bullock, Producer, Off and Running; Media/Communications Strategist, The Young People’s Project
Wendy Cohen, Co-founder, Screening Liberally
Laurie Collyer, Director, Sherrybaby
Marshall Curry, Director, Street Fight
Ben Herson, Founder, Nomadic Wax
Susan Kaplan, Founder, DocuClub
Ross Kauffman, Director, Born Into Brothels
Sam Kauffmann, 2009 Guggenheim Fellow
Julia Pimsleur, Founder & President, Little Pim
Kimberly Reed, Director, Prodigal Sons
Lynn True and Nelson Walker, Co-Founders/Directors, The Kham Film Project
Andrew Walton, Director, Arctic Son