Investing in Media That Matters - Agenda


Deal Flow
The Spartacus Media Enterprisessm Deal Flow Program

Deal Flow Room
One of the conference's central goals was to help this professional community define "media that matters". We addressed two significant questions as part of this definition: What investment vehicles are best suited for financing — and thereby helping to grow — social mission media? What deals actually represent this niche field for professionals and investors alike?

We set up an interactive "Deal Flow Room" forum as an integral part of the "Investing in Media that Matters" conference to address these core educational questions with actual market-proven and promising examples. Two Selection Committees chose the following two finalist groups from nearly 100 applicants:

• Seven (7) for-profit companies representing stand-alone TV and film projects, established production companies, and several other innovative businesses, including novel models for syndicating local news and privately/publicly financing emerging projects.

• Seven (7) non-profit organizations representing an independent production company, a script development program, a media training organization, a TV series, a media literacy program, a community-based documentary organization, and a fund for independent films.

Below, please find descriptions of the Deal Flow room participants as well as the for-profit and non-profit finalists. We hope that these descriptions will illustrate the depth and range of high quality investment and grant-worthy companies and organizations that are emerging in the field. We request that you take a look and share your feedback and referrals with these excellent companies. You may discover an effort that you want to support in some way.

This initiative, including the selection committee process, was Co-Chaired by Jim Pitofsky, Partner of the Social Enterprise Alliance (for the non-profit applicants) and Dominic C. Kulik, CEO of Dakai Enterprises and IC Board Member (for the for-profit applicants).

For-Profit Deal Flow Room Participants

ContentFilm
ContentFilm, formed in July 2001, aims to become a leading producer/distributor of independent feature film entertainment. The company's strategy combines: 1) aggressive production and acquisitions within strict budget parameters, 2) exploiting the cost efficiencies of digital production, post-production and distribution when appropriate, and 3) creating a global network of filmmakers and distribution associates.

In its first year of operation, ContentFilm has produced five films and acquired one. The acquisition is Wendigo, which was distributed by Magnolia Pictures in 2002. The productions are: The Guys, The Hebrew Hammer, Love Object, Party Monster, and The Cooler. The Guys premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was purchased by Focus Features, who plan on a January release. Three of the other films have been accepted to the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Lead actors include Sigourney Weaver, Adam Goldberg, Bill Macy, Alec Baldwin, Anthony LaPaglia, Desmond Harrington, Chloe Sevigny, Seth Green, and Macaulay Culkin.

John Schmidt
ContentFilm
john.schmidt@contentfilm.com

Crying Ghost Film Production
Crying Ghost is an independent feature film based on the legend of La Llorona—a Medea-like legend that has haunted Latinos throughout the Americas for over 500 years with countless reports of her ghost roaming the rivers to this day. This magical story is set in New Mexico where a girl named Teresa — obsessed with freeing La Llorona's soul — becomes trapped in a web of archaic superstitions and finds she must fight to save her own soul as well. In a time where mainstream interest in the booming U.S. Latino market is escalating, Crying Ghost brings to life a compelling, magical, and timeless legend that has never been presented to the public in a meaningful or significant way — despite the legend's passionate following of roughly 20 million persons in the United States alone.

Beyond Crying Ghost's attractive market potential given the legend's strong pre-existing audience, the film's writer/director/producer, Bernadine Santistevan, has incorporated a variety of socially responsible initiatives: Cultural a) Share with mainstream audiences the Latino world's strongest legend; b) Preserve traditional elements of northern New Mexican culture/folklore that are rapidly disappearing; Educational Foster a greater understanding and appreciation of Hispanic culture. (The film's website is already being used nationally in high schools and universities as a teaching tool for Latino, folklore, and women studies courses.); Economic Development a) Provide guidance to, and potentially partner with, individuals from the rural, economically depressed Hispanic communities where the film will be shot to develop merchandising opportunities surrounding the film; b) Provide training and temporary employment to local residents; c) Patronize local businesses during the film's production.

A native of New Mexico, Ms. Santistevan has been active in filmmaking for ten years, has extensive experience developing business and marketing strategies for companies such as Barry Diller's USA Networks, and has also served as a venture capitalist for GE Capital. She holds a certificate in filmmaking from NYU, an MBA from Wharton, an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MS from Stanford University.

Bernadine Santistevan
Writer/Director/Producer
1173A Second Avenue, #183
New York, NY 10021
Tel: (212) 588-0126
Fax: (212) 588-0129
bernadines@att.net.com
www.LaLlorona.com

Globalvision News Network
Globalvision News Network (GVNews.Net) is a global news service that is dedicated to delivering diverse world news and information - both content and context - that cannot be found elsewhere. Produced by Globalvision New Media, Inc., GVNews.Net has pioneered an "inside-out" news formula that delivers up-to-the-minute world reports via an indigenous network of professional news organizations. GVNews.Net has attained the licenses to print and broadcast (audio and video) coverage from more than 350 local news outlets on seven continents. Stories breaking today at GVNews.Net often appear days later on "internationalized" news services such as the AP, Reuters, CNN, and The New York Times. By linking this global network to a proprietary news syndication system, Globalvision News Network offers media and Global 2,000 corporations a comprehensive alternative to "the wires."

GVNews.Net does not need significant penetration of the $96 billion corporate and media market for news and information products to be financially successful. Through an exclusive relationship with a news distribution vendor (Infodesk), GVNews.Net will be made available, in 2003, to the 18,500 organizations that subscribe to the Associated Press world news services. The company conservatively projects profit- ability in its third year, with 50 percent plus net after-tax margins in year four.

Danny Schechter
VP and Executive Producer
Globalvision
1600 Broadway, Suite 700
New York, NY 10019
Tel: (212) 246-0202

GTM
The mission of GTM…It Means A Lot is to be a force within the landscape of traditional media & marketing, by making "guerilla media" an integral component of fully integrated marketing campaigns. Guerrilla Media creates resonance with core youth by immersing messages in the next-edge subcultures that they represent. GTM is presently in a state of aggressive growth. GTM is currently working on 2 of the nations largest youth focused cause marketing campaigns in existence (Award winning Truth and CDC's Verb). The organization is expanding internally to incorporate key personnel and strategic partnerships that will grant GTM the necessary tools needed to facilitate its growth.

GTM and Carew Productions have teamed up with the intent of broadcasting the voice of the youth seeking to be heard. To accomplish this GTM founded Change The Game.

Change the Game will become the gateway through which the youth of today will foster change in response to the social injustices that plague our global community. This organization will act as a network of inter-activists, a platform for cutting edge actions and creators of guerilla media that will generate huge awareness through the targeting of all media outlets. Change the Game's intent is to affect public opinion and to make activism synonymous with cool.

By creating cultural content of relevance, Change The Game will bring to the forefront the brewing issues that face the world at large. These issues of relevance are not just topics within the headlines of newspapers, but are directly linked to what's eminently wrong with the way the world powers are directing our fates. The first project will be a documentary chronicling youth activism globally. This content will be packaged in and marketed through the different entry points of the global youth subculture.

The potential channels of distribution for Change The Game are:
Theatrical release
Television Content
DVD Release
National/International Rights
Web Properties
Live Events/Rallies
Retail/Lifestyle
Educational Institutions

Aligning with Carew Productions allows for an immediate ability of reach with this message and product. The project will be orchestrated through Change The Game and its reach to youth activists worldwide. Marketing of the project to youth consumers will be done by GTM and positioning of the film within the industry and media will be done by Carew Productions.

Carew production possesses an invaluable amount of experience based on the launching of successful documentaries. Therefore providing this project with an infrastructure that will provide niche marketing within the media industry and to the general public as well as access the major markets and a broader distribution network.

Topper Carew has served on the boards of the National Urban Coalition, the Los Angeles Children's Museum, The Children's Foundation, the African American Museum, the Negro Scholarship Fund, the National Association of Neighborhoods, Americans for Democratic Action, The D.C. Commission of the Arts, the Kennedy Center, and Rainbow Television Workshop. He has also served on a Presidential Commission.

Carew has produced and directed national television series for both public and commercial broadcasters. For PBS, they include Rebop, Say Brother, Tales in a Golden Groove, The Righteous Apples, and The Rainbow Movies of the Week. For commercial television they include Homeroom (ABC), Bustin' Loose (Universal Syndication) and Martin (Fox). His television movies have aired on HBO, Showtime, The Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and PBS. Universal and New Line have distributed his theatrical films. He has produced (3) specials for HBO.

An influential period in Carew's career were the 6 years he spent as the founder and director of the New Thing, a Washington, D.C. arts program for inner city children and teenagers. The program taught film, photography, graphics, creative writing, dance, percussion, and self-esteem to its students.

Carew has won more than 50 film awards, a People's Choice Award, 5 NAACP Image Awards, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, 11 television awards and 15 design awards. He has been awarded an MIT Distinguished Alumni Award and graduated from Yale with honors. Over the years, he has had numerous speaking engagements. Several Congressional receptions have been held in his honor.

MacGillivray Freeman Films
For more than 35 years, MacGillivray Freeman Films — a talented and innovative team of specialists in the development, production, and distribution of large-screen (IMAX®) experiential motion pictures — has studied and perfected the art of motion picture entertainment and the power of cinema to evoke emotion, stimulate the intellect, and inspire the imagination. Founded by Greg MacGillivray and the late Jim Freeman, this award-winning film production company strives to create positive, enriching motion pictures as it explores new and more exciting ways to take audiences on unforgettable and educational adventures. There are many other producers and distributors that enter this field of work; however, not one matches the financial success, audience and critical acclaim, and staying power of MacGillivray Freeman Films.

We welcome investors in our films at any stage of a particular production, from inception through to just prior to film launch. At any given time, we are in development, production, post-production, or active distribution of upwards of 5-7 films. We encourage investors to join us as early as possible. Current projects for which we are seeking investors, all giant screen "IMAX" films, include GREECE: Secrets of the Past, Sharks, Ocean Planet, Passage Across India, Space Journey, and The Nile.

MacGillivray Freeman Films
Mr. Alec Lorimore, VP Production
alorimore@macfreefilms.com.
Tel: (949) 494-1055
Fax: (949) 494-2079

Progressive Pictures
Progressive Pictures ("PP/RGP") is a stand-alone, start-up division of Robert Greenwald Productions ("RGP") — a privately owned, independent film and television production company incorporated on April 30, 1980. The purpose and business of PP/RGP is to develop and produce independent, low-budget motion picture films for national and international theatrical release, DVD/video distribution, and cable television acquisition. The content of the films will be exclusively focused on dramatizing important social and political issues, in such a way as to: (a) attract mainstream audiences; (b) inspire activism; and, (c) change the circumstances dramatized.

The content of Progressive Pictures will be exclusively political or issue based. Its films will be separate from the RGP brand (which has focused mainly on television movies and features under $10 million), but at the same time, PP/RGP will benefit from the past branding of RGP as a company that has, even within the commercial parameters of network and cable television, produced a significant number of politically and socially conscious films, exploring controversial topics from domestic abuse to toxic waste dumping, the juvenile justice system to nuclear war, interracial relationships to international human rights abuse. From the award-winning NBC TV movie The Burning Bed, (starring Farrah Fawcett in an Emmy-nominated performance) to the recent theatrical film Steal This Movie (starring Vincent D'Onofrio as 60's political activist Abbie Hoffman), RGP has consistently tackled complex political, social, and moral issues – making the personal political and the political personal for millions of viewers and audience members. Company principals are: Robert Greenwald (producer/director); Earl Katz (producer); and Alys Shanti (producer)

Robert Greenwald
Producer/Director
Progressive Pictures
10510 Culver Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
Tel: (310) 204-0404
rgrgp@aol.com

Shooting the Messengers
The access to information that journalists provide the public is fundamental to the health of a demo-cracy. As David Halberstam says in Shooting the Messengers, a feature-length documentary in production about the legendary journalists and photographers who reported the Vietnam War: "When the government is telling the truth, journalism isn't very important. But when the government begins playing games with the truth, journalism becomes very important."

Shooting the Messengers recounts the courage and resourcefulness of a few reporters, including Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Walter Cronkite, Morley Safer, Peter Arnett, Frances FitzGerald, Gloria Emerson and others, in bringing back a story many tried to hide. The film deals with the impact of these reporters on the Vietnam War - the last uncensored war — and on the profound impact the Vietnam War has had on access to information in wartime ever since. Did the journalists lose the war? What is the role of journalists in wartime? We have filmed over 60 hours of interviews with 38 journalists, historians, and other participants. A rough-cut of the film's first act has been produced. We are seeking finishing funds of approximately $500,000.

Principals:
Thomas D. Herman: Director, Producer, and Chief Correspondent. Herman, a lawyer, has freelanced as a producer for CNN for 18 years. He is a co-producer of the HBO feature film Live From Baghdad (2002), starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter, about CNN's coverage of the Gulf War.

Richard Chapman: Executive Producer. A veteran of Hollywood, Chapman's film credits include: Live From Baghdad (writer and co-producer, 2002); My Fellow Americans (writer, 1996); The Absent Minded Professor 2 (writer, 1988), and The Amazing Dobermans (writer,1976). He was executive producer of the long-running TV show, Simon and Simon.

Richard Blystone: Writer. Blystone is an award-winning, former CNN and AP correspondent. Blystone was based in Saigon from 1970-1972.

Tom Herman
therman@smithduggan.com
Shooting the Messengers LLC
c/o Smith & Duggan, LLP
2 Center Plaza
Boston, MA 02108
Tel: (617) 248-1900
Fax: (617) 248-9320

Non-Profit Deal Flow Room Participants:

Emerging Voices
Emerging Voices is a script development program designed to address two problems found within the film industry at large: lack of diversity within the ranks of screenwriters and lack of access to the industry and contacts for minority writers. Through an open call for submissions and a selection process involving industry members, the principals of Emerging Voices and an advisory panel, 8-10 writers, will meet twice a month, over an 8-month period, to develop 10 scripts. During these meetings, the writers will receive hands-on support in the form of one-on-one analysis of the scripts and screenplay readings; they will attend seminars by industry professionals to expand the writer's knowledge of the business side of the industry. Upon completion of each script, meetings with managers and agents will be set up, with an eye towards obtaining representation for those writers. Either through that agent/manager representation or the contacts provided by the principals and advisory panel for Emerging Voices, writers will then be able to have their scripts read and considered by key industry professionals and production companies, with the goal being an eventual sale of a script to the industry at large. For the initial year, Emerging Voices will rely upon grants and angel investors to fund the operating budget. In the following years, any earned income (i.e.: a % of the sale of any developed script) will be applied to the operating budget to offset the total amount of grant/angel investor money needed for that year.

For the past 5 years, the main three film guilds (directors, writers, and actors) have each reported either a stagnation or a decline in the number of working minorities in film, indicating a lack of diversity in front of and behind the camera. The Writers Guild of America reported in 1998 (its last study) that just 2.7% of all employed film writers were African American, with a pay gap of 21% - 40%. Though there has been an increased percentage of African American screenwriters applying to film schools and writers' labs, these writers and their stories will remain on the outside of the film industry looking in without the necessary contacts and access. Emerging Voices is designed to take these new voices and introduce them to the mainstream industry. By targeting African American writers and guiding them through the process of creating scripts, the program will encourage and nurture new voices within the black film community, as well as increase their exposure to key contacts within the industry and extend their knowledge about the business side of the industry.

Principals: Diana Williams, Moira Griffin
55 Monroe St.
Suite 4
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Tel: (212) 726-2848
emergingvoicesusa@yahoo.com
website: currently under construction

Firelight Media
Firelight Media is a New York City-based independent production company dedicated to telling stories of people, places, cultures, and issues that are underrepresented in the mainstream media. Our Executive Producer, Stanley Nelson, is a 2002 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow and has won a duPont, an Emmy, and the "Freedom of Expression Award" at Sundance, among many others. He has also had three films in the Sundance Documentary Competition in the last five years. In naming him a Fellow, the MacArthur Foundation hailed Stanley's "signature style and a distinctive cinematic voice," and stated that "his films on a wide variety of subjects convey powerful stories with evocative technique."

Our Executive Director, Marcia Smith, who has a background in politics and public policy, managed a multi-million dollar worldwide grants portfolio at a major foundation. Smith is also a writer who scripts Firelight projects, has written for such outlets as HBO and The Nation, and whose book Black America: A Photographic Journey has recently been released by Thunder Bay Press. Firelight's mission is to produce media — film, video, CD-ROM, DVD, and on the Internet — that can inform public reflection and debate, and to maximize the consumption of those media in innovative ways. Our current projects include The Murder of Emmett Till, screening at Sundance; Faces of Change, which explores race and identity through the eyes of five activists from Brazil, Bulgaria, India, Mauritania, the U.S.; A Song for Everyone, a concert film and documentary of the acapella group "Sweet Honey in the Rock"; and a major, multi-part series on the economic history of the Atlantic slave trade.

Marcia Smith
Executive Director
Firelight Media
324 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
Tel: (212) 234-1324
marcia@firelightmedia.org
www.firelightmedia.org

The Just Think Foundation
The Just Think Foundation ("Just Think") is a dynamic, non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to teaching youth how to become more media literate by providing them with the skills and technical tools to be critical thinkers and creative producers. Just Think trains young people and teachers to understand the words, images, and technology of today's mass media, inspiring them to think for themselves and create their own media messages. Just Think believes young people who can critically assess the influence of today's media and use technology responsibly are much more prepared to make informed, conscious decisions about their behavior and how they live their lives.

The "Local Heroes" project builds on these core concepts. This innovative curriculum encourages youth to tell the stories of their communities through the people who live and work there. Students identify, research, and then interview local heroes, recording their unique stories on digital video. They then take the footage and integrate it into a series of multimedia outlets, such as a short documentary film, a website, a photo collage, and a museum-like exhibit. Just Think is producing a ‘behind-the-scenes' feature length documentary film which captures youth from five diverse communities as they embark on their own "Local Heroes" storytelling journey.

David Yanofsky, Executive Director
Tel: (415) 561-2900 ext. 100
dave@justthink.org

Elana Rosen, President
Tel: (415) 722-7474
elana@justthink.org

39 Mesa St. Suite 106
San Francisco, CA 94129

The Sundance Film Fund
The Sundance Institute seeks an initial grant of $5 million to launch The Sundance Film Fund. The Sundance Film Fund would provide crucial support to dramatic and documentary films that express new, unheard voices and perspectives on matters of social import, including such issues as human rights, freedom of expression, social and environmental justice, and civil liberties. Through a competitive selection process, the Fund will provide development grants, works-in-progress grants as well as supplementary support for assistance with marketing, publicity, and outreach. Grant awards would range in size from a low of $10,000 to a high of $20,000 depending on the nature of the project, the overall project budget, phase of work, and the creative strength of the work. In order to ensure the long-term viability of the program and replenish the fund for future grantmaking — while not imposing an untoward burden on the filmmaker — Sundance proposes to include a stipulation in the grant award agreement that projects return a percentage of profits to the Fund. It is not anticipated that this approach will substitute for periodic infusion of new capital to the Fund, but it can supplement outside financing in meaningful ways in return for the Fund's investment in the project.

Despite the marked growth in the popularity of so-called independent films, it is more difficult than ever for emerging filmmakers to find financing and distribution for risk-taking, innovative, truly indepen-dent work. With the creation of the Sundance Film Fund, the Institute can address this need in the independent film community by strategically leveraging its experience in identifying outstanding work, in extensively supporting its development and production, and in bridging the arts/entertainment commun-ities to bring important works to the widest possible audience. The principal staff of the Sundance Film Fund — Michelle Satter (Founding Director, Feature Film Program), Diane Weyerman (Director, Documentary Film Program), and Geoffrey Gilmore (Director, Sundance Film Festival) — have unparalleled collective experience in all aspects of the independent film industry - both dramatic and documentary - as well as in identifying and promoting work with social impact. Because the Sundance Institute is a not-for-profit organization, individual donors to the Sundance Film Fund can take advantage of favorable tax treatment for their contributions.

Patricia Dandonoli
Director, Strategic Initiatives
Sundance Institute
8857 W. Olympic Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Tel: (310) 360-1981
Mobile: (310) 614-4764
Fax: (310) 360-1969

WITNESS
WITNESS (www.witness.org) is an international human rights organization that uses the power of media to bring local stories of injustice to the attention of the world and help end human rights abuses. Co-founded by musician and activist Peter Gabriel, WITNESS has provided video cameras and training to over 150 partners in 50 countries around the world. Our partners are local non-governmental organizations and activists working on the frontlines of grassroots movements for change. This year, WITNESS is proud to be celebrating ten years of giving local groups a global voice.

WITNESS makes a difference:

The Mexican government reformed the country's psychiatric facilities after a public advocacy campaign built on WITNESS video images of people with psychiatric illness shackled to their beds.

The Philippine government was forced to investigate the murders of numerous indigenous activists who were peacefully pursuing ancestral land claims through the courts after WITNESS partner footage of the murderous attacks was broadcast around the world. The United States passed a new law called the "Trafficking Victims Protection Act" and the United Nations approved a new protocol against human trafficking after WITNESS partners documented the Russian Mafia's trafficking of women from the former Soviet Union for forced prostitution.

WITNESS footage has been seen by millions of people. We have established a number of broadcast platforms and distribution channels for our partner videos. WITNESS videos have been broadcast on CNN, ABC, CBS, Telemundo, BBC, Oxygen, World Link TV, and numerous international TV stations. One of the premier platforms for our partners' programs is the WITNESS website, www.witness.org, which attracts over 1.3 million hits and 40,000 visitors each month. The WITNESS website broadcasts a new "Rights Alerts" on the home page – a short online documentary about a pressing issue from one of our partners – and provides viewers with opportunities to participate in email and letter-writing campaigns to create change.

Gillian Caldwell
Executive Director
WITNESS
353 Broadway
New York NY 10013
Tel: (212) 274-1664 ext 202
Fax: (212) 274-1262
gillian@witness.org
www.witness.org

Working Films
Working Films is a national non-profit organization that links independent documentary filmmaking with community organizing and direct action to support social, environmental, and civil justice. Our unique community-based media initiatives support strategic local and regional efforts; our national organizing campaigns are linked to high profile documentaries broadcast on HBO, the Sundance Channel, and PBS. Our goal is to create dynamic opportunities for independent media to address the issues of our times at home, in the classroom, and in our communities.

We are neither a production company nor a distributor. Working Films is a nationally recognized activist-driven bridge between high quality documentary filmmaking and serious policy shifting; we support life-changing organizing that works for social, economic, environmental, and racial justice and is tied to strategic and measurable outcomes.

Robert West
Working Films
rwest@workingfilms.org

WorldLink TV's Chat the Planet
"Chat the Planet" is a groundbreaking television and web initiative that will transcend geographical, political, and cultural barriers to digitally link a community of dynamic young people from around the world. The program will be a provocative forum for youth aged 15-21 to encounter one another, share perspectives on critical issues, and experience the pulse of global youth culture — a place where young people from different backgrounds can explore both their diversity and their interconnectedness. "Chat the Planet" begins as a series of half-hour dialogue shows where young people meet face-to-face, via a two-way video link, to gain knowledge and insight about world issues, learn how to take action, and be proactive in the world. Each program is linked to further activity on the Internet. An international co-production, "Chat the Planet" will be broadcast in the U.S. on WorldLink TV, where it will serve as the cornerstone of the network's 2-hour youth strand, launching in Spring 2003. WorldLink is a 24-hour channel devoted to global issues available in 19 million American homes on DirecTV and DISH Network satellite systems, and many programs are provided for free to local public TV stations. The WorldLink youth strand will also consist of youth-produced media, programs acquired from international broadcasters, global news, World Music videos, and live wraparounds with local Chat Jockeys (CJ's).

Chat the Planet will be produced by NextNext Entertainment and its South African partner, Rapid Blue, for Link Media, the non-profit organization that operates WorldLink TV. NextNext has produced live action, documentaries, and animation for Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Noggin, HBO Family, Oxygen Media, and ABC. Rapid Blue is a top South African production company which has produced over 5,000 hours of quality television and is a leader in youth-related programming.

WorldLink TV
901 Battery Street, Suite 206
San Francisco, CA 94111
Tel: (415) 457-5222
Fax: (415) 457-6810
www.worldlinktv.org

For-Profit Investor Mailing Finalists:

Dragonfly Media
Our Values:
We believe in the power of the individual to change the world. We defend democracy, human rights, economic justice, and the principle of sustainability in all human enterprise. We think that the best place to begin change is in one's own backyard. We respect the body, the mind, and the spirit's extraordinary power to heal. We listen to the ancient voices of those who have come before us. We celebrate the interrelatedness of all living systems. We honor those taking the next step along sacred spiritual paths. We are committed to a future of harmony, compassion, and respect for all living things. We trust in the revolutionary potential of love.

Our Company:
Dragonfly Media is building a profitable, independent network of twelve city-based monthly magazines in the major markets of North American. Founded by a seasoned team of publishing and editorial professionals with a successful track record in the highly competitive alternative newsweekly field, the company is envisioned as the edge of the next wave of the alternative press. While we will initiate groundbreaking investigative projects, we will also tell stories of courage and vision and of those who are fashioning solutions and providing hope. By building targeted, cost effective local marketplaces, we will nurture hundreds of new sustainable and socially responsible businesses. We will introduce the marchers and the meditators to each other in fresh and welcoming ways.

Ron Williams, CEO
Dragonfly Media, LLC
Tel: (212) 929 0754
ron@dragonflymedia.com
dragonflymedia.com

Illuminated Media: The Environmental Network
The Environmental Network (TEN) is becoming the first integrated 24-hour television, radio, Internet, and wireless network serving an online community of communities focused on environmental news, information, entertainment, and education. TEN is the only such media network created by and for visionary global environmental content partners, their organizations, and the vast global audience of people who want to preserve and protect the ecology. They are supported by TEN's Web portal as the hub of an integrated media production, collaboration, and distribution system, enabling it to become the CNN of the environmental news, focusing on late breaking events, in depth interviews, and magazine format series. The Network is creating high quality original programming, in collaborative partnership with the world leaders in the environmental field, including Deepak Chopra, Paul Hawken, Hazel Henderson, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Amory Lovins, and William McDonough. It will introduce new visionaries responsible for breakthrough solutions.

TEN will operate under a low risk-high return business model, developing corporate, and foundational sponsorship based on newly developed and existing successful program concepts. TEN's cross-media brand marketing and revenue-sharing model supports its environmental organization partners in becoming financially self-sustaining, while helping them bring their visions to mass media audiences. Content is distributed and licensed over TEN's radio, cable, and television network partners' infrastructure (e.g. Discovery, National Geographic, WorldLinkTV, X-FM, etc.). TEN will progressively leverage its existing radio and television networks, centralized Web portal program guide, and content partner communities into the premiere international resource for environmental news. TEN programs, portal channels, and communities of interest will be invaluable in conveying compelling content and supporting informed community-based, socially responsible action.

David Catzel, CEO
Tel: (415) 609-2238
dcatzel@metastudio.com

Inner Tan, LLC, and The Robber Barons project
Inner Tan Productions, LLC, is a visionary feature film development and media company founded in 1995 specifically to develop social issue ("visionary") stories. Inner Tan's four projects, in various stages of development, are exceptional both as dramatic entertainment and social-issue pictures. The market is mass-audience and global. Founder Kenny Ausubel is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and social entrepreneur with extensive experience in both organizing and marketing (founder of Seeds of Change and Bioneers). The four projects respectively address issues of prison reform, environmental direct action, the systemic corruption of corporate monopoly, and the civil war between alternative and conventional medicine. The business model is to develop viable scripts, package them with name talent, and then collaborate with effective independent producers or studios to produce the films. Inner Tan is seeking modest development capital for the rewrite and polish by David Ward (The Sting, Milagro Beanfield War) of Ausubel's original script The Robber Barons, and packaging the project. Producer Jake Eberts (Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves, The Killing Fields), currently chairman of National Geographic Feature Films, is seriously interested in the project.

The Robber Barons is a revelatory journey into the corrupt creation of the system of corporate monopoly invented by the Robber Barons of the 19th Century, who wrote the playbook for Enron and the current corporate crime wave. It is a wild true story of populist resistance against the Octopus, the pre-eminent railroad monopoly of the late 19th century. The story centers on the conflict between the railroad Robber Baron Collis Huntington, one of the Big Four who controlled all of commerce in the West by their monopoly of the Central and Southern Pacific Railroads;, and the California Outlaws, a small band falsely framed for the five daring unsolved political robberies of the company's trains. The Big Four, who gained their corrupt monopoly by bribing Congress, the courts, and the press, finally captured Chris Evans, the leader of the Outlaws, but only after a long pursuit in which the local community protected him in his hideouts in the Sierras. His fiery daughter Eva Evans, whose lover John Sontag was her father's wrongfully accused compatriot and who was killed in the capture, then masterminded her father's jailbreak, while starring in a hugely popular play romanticizing the outlaws. Meanwhile, Huntington continued his ongoing monopolistic takeover of transportation and commerce, battling publisher William Randolph Hearst, muckraker Ambrose Bierce, and the people of the West. Evans was finally captured and sent to prison, while Huntington, mired in scandal, was at last defeated in his final outrageous attempt to have the federal government forgive the $76 million loan it had made to his company for the building of the railroad, for which he had never paid a nickel of principal or interest despite having become one of the richest men in the world. The Robber Barons is a powerfully dramatic father-daughter story nested in a larger-than-life true story of populist resistance against the theft of the nation by corrupt corporate monopolists.

Kenny Ausubel
Inner Tan Productions, LLC
901 W. San Mateo Road
Suite L
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Tel: (505) 982-8295
innertan@nets.com

Native Sun Entertainment
Native Sun was founded to develop socially conscious and responsible film projects by utilizing German/European film funds in financing U.S. Co-productions that appeal to an International audience. Native Sun also acts as an intermediary/agent for U.S. and German film projects, directors, producers, and writers who are increasingly seeking international collaborations on universal themes which cross cultural borders and/or may not be produced by a major studio.

The enormous competition on the U.S. independent market, with thousands of small- and medium-sized production companies trying to get sufficient financing for projects, makes the German/European funding idea an attractive underutilized alternative. Further, U.S. producers can pursue projects which might not get funded in the U.S. but have greater possibilities with a European partner.

Glen Lindenstadt
Managing Director
Native Sun-California
260 Newport Center Drive, Suite 310
Newport Beach, California 92660
Tel: (949) 644-6494
Fax: (949) 644-6696
GlenL@pacbell.net

Native Sun-Germany
Kurfurstendamm 208
Berlin 10719
Tel: 030-88923472
Fax: 030-88923200

Silo Corporation: Sweat
Silo is a production house specializing in live-action feature film production. Sweat will be the first feature film produced under the Silo banner. Silo partners, Melissa Malkin and Eric Steedman, bring complementary skills to the financing and production of this SRI-based film. For the last seven years, Melissa has produced feature films, documentaries, animated shorts, and multimedia projects as both executive and creative producer. Her strong network of contacts with funding agencies, broadcasters, and international distributors has ensured that all of her projects to date have been sold in numerous international territories, as well as critically recognized in international festivals.

For the past several years, Eric has worked as an independent business strategy consultant in the area of socially responsible and sustainable investment and business. Previously he spent three and a half years at the Dreyfus Corporation in New York City, first as a social research analyst and then as co-portfolio manager of the Dreyfus Third Century and Socially Responsible Growth Funds, overseeing more than US $1.2 billion in assets.

Summary Of The Project:
The film will outline the core issues around sweatshop activities in the garment industry within a classic dramatic [rather than docudrama] structure. The narrative will focus on the personal evolution of the main character who, through the course of the film, sets a strong example of socially responsible behaviors and responses to the injustices she uncovers in the supply chain for the designer firm where she works. The film will provide a picture of the worker/human rights issues, social investment, and compliance monitoring, while highlighting and contrasting the differences between sweatshop conditions and glossy NY fashion headquarters. The film will demonstrate how responsible investment can change lives, that one person can change the course of human history, and show that not all wealthy people are greedy or without conscience.

Melissa Malkin
mlmalkin@hotmail.com
Eric Steedman
eric.steedman@elf.mcgill.ca
Silo Corporation
3989 Laval Avenue
Montreal, Quebec H2W 2H9
Canada
Tel: (514) 982-0321
Cel: (514) 808-1700
Fax: (514) 982-6992

StageDirect
StageDirect captures outstanding off-off Broadway or fringe theater on digital video for distribution on DVD and VHS and in the broadcast market. We are the only company bridging the gap between daring theater artists and a population that is hungry for and in need of more than standard Hollywood fare. We are making great theater that is generally available to only a very limited audience widely accessible, including to schools, colleges, and libraries (complete with study guides).

We scout around the country (and ultimately beyond) for fresh, intelligent, and sometimes provocative productions such as STRAIGHT, a one-man show by gay writer/performer David Schmader that takes on the movement to convert gays and lesbians to heterosexuality. We shoot on location in the theater, using multiple digital cameras deployed over multiple performances and edit using our own post-production equipment. We are able to produce highly professional feature-length video productions at an average cost of under $25,000.

Gary Cole, President
StageDirect, Inc.
2257 NW Raleigh Street
Portland, OR 97210
Tel: (503) 274-1373
Fax: (503) 274-1376
gary@stagedirect.com
www.stagedirect.com

ThinkBox
ThinkBox is creating a family of educational products and programs that help teachers and parents enhance the achievement of their young children. ThinkBox software, Internet-services, books, and other products deliver engaging, standards-based curricula and powerful tools to the classroom and the family room. Driven by the success of its first program for 3-7 year olds called Kindle Park™, ThinkBox is positioned to capitalize on today's heightened focus on the improvement of early childhood education. Sales of Kindle Park products began in September 2001 and already over 15,000 children are using the program daily across the country.

ThinkBox boasts a world-class team that includes seasoned leaders and business builders from entertainment, education, and technology, with backgrounds at companies such as Disney, DreamWorks, and Scholastic. Brian Napack, founder and CEO, was the founder and Vice President of Disney Educational Publishing and a founder of Disney Interactive. Joining him are talented creators, educators, and tech- nologists such as Bruce Cranston, Chief Creative Officer (former head of TV animation development at DreamWorks and Disney); Akimi Gibson, Chief Education Officer (Scholastic, Disney, Simon & Schuster); and Art Holland, CTO (Disney). A prominent Educational Advisory Board includes Scott Himelstein, Executive Director, Even Start; Dr. Robert Peterkin, Harvard School of Education; Dr. J. Kevin Nugent, Executive Director, Brazelton Institute; and Judith Gold, Project Director, LEARNS, Bank Street College of Education.

Brian Napack
ThinkBox
801 North Brand Blvd., Suite 680
Glendale, CA 91203
Tel: (818) 244-9494
bnapack@thinkbox.com

Tokyo Rose
This is a proposal for a full length theatrical motion picture, Tokyo Rose, starring Martin Sheen, produced and directed by two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Terry Sanders, which dramatizes the true, untold story of Iva Toguri, the UCLA graduate, born on the 4th of July, who became the first woman in American history to be convicted of treason -- and who was completely innocent. It is a story about truth, honor, courage, and survival.

Terry Sanders
American Film Foundation / Sanders & Mock Productions
530 Wilshire Blvd., ste. 201
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Tel: (310) 459-2116
Fax: (310) 394-1260
am.film@verizon.net

Bongiorno Productions' Watermark
Bongiorno Productions, an independent film production company, was formed by Emmy-nominated husband and wife filmmakers, Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno. Narrative and documentary films produced have earned prizes and awards from numerous international film festivals and have received grants from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Martin Scorsese, Lew Wasserman, Warner Bros. Pictures, Richard Vague, NYU-GFTV, the New Jersey Historical Commission, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Spike Lee is executive producing one of their upcoming films.

The Bongiornos have written and are developing Watermark, a romantic drama about two scientists who are passionately driven to save Venice, Italy from sinking, but whose solutions are in direct opposition to one another. The film delves into the potentially catastrophic global environmental impact threatened by the MOSES dam project and focuses on international efforts to stop Venice's flooding problems and protect the fragile lagoon ecosystem. It also addresses water pollution on the New England coastline and efforts by marine biologists to combat oil spills and industrial waste. The effects of global warming, industrial pollution, and ground water pumping are key issues addressed in the screenplay. The leading actors are Melina Kanakaredes (star of NBC's Providence and Maybelline Cover Model), Raoul Bova (popular Italian leading man, currently starring in Disney/Touchstone's Under the Tuscan Sun, with Diane Lane) and Maria Grazia Cucinotta (Il Postino).

Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno
Tel/Fax: (973) 481-0076
BonPix@aol.com

Zula
Zula LLC produces a package of multimedia materials that include a TV series, home videos, DVD games, books, toys, teaching guides, and a reading incentive program designed to provide early science education and reading literacy for children in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. The heart of Zula LLC is a TV series called The Zula Patrol -- a wacky, fun-filled series about a group of aliens who travel the galaxies saving the universe from intergalactic danger while teaching kids about science and space. The Zula Patrol series addresses the national call for science literacy education among the very audience for whom research demonstrates that early intervention is most effective: K through d grade 3. The Zula Reading Incentive Program, presently being used by over 60,000 children, improves reading literacy and addresses our national literacy crisis by uniting the worlds of entertainment and education. The fundamental themes of all Zula products are non-violence and tolerance. All Zula products have underlying character-building messages.

Zula LLC has many advantages and opportunities for success: (1) Zula has national and international commitments from TV networks to air The Zula Patrol TV series; (2) Zula has an award-winning producer of children's programming as a financial/production partner; (3) Zula is presently selling merchandise and is poised to capture yearly revenues totally $405 million from the entertainment and educational markets, and,in fact, is at an advantage to do so, because Zula provides what both arenas are looking for an entertaining multifaceted program with an educational message; (4) Zula has major international appeal and an international DVD game distribution deal in place; (5) Zula has established numerous distribution channels; (6) Zula has the support of major science centers including the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL, and COSI (Center of Science & Industry) in Columbus, OH. COSI is headed by former NASA Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, Chief Science advisor for Zula; (7) Zula's first two video episodes have won numerous awards; (8) Zula has a team of experienced individuals who are dedicated to making it a successful company.

Zula LLC
Deborah Manchester
230 North Delta Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43214
Tel: (614) 261-7358
Fax: (614) 267-8274
debmanchester@hotmail.com
www.zula.com

Non-Profit Investor Mailing Finalists:


Community Based Media
Community Based Media ["CBM"] is a not-for-profit (pending) multi-media literacy organization that serves young people located throughout New York City's five boroughs. CBM provides young people, ages 14-21, with practical tools such as training and organizing in video and film production, print and web production, and graphic design, which they can then utilize as they see fit. These tools are designed to enhance the personal lives of the young people as well the lives of the people in communities where they reside. CBM's approach to media literacy is based on a popular education model, one which stresses that self-determination is best achieved if people, and the communities which they make up, own and operate the tools by which popular culture is created, expressed, debated, and ultimately distributed. To date, CBM has successfully launched two programs.

The "Estilo Media Project" is a year-long, transient media literacy outreach program within New York City that serves over 5,000 young people, ages 14-21, who may be located throughout public and private schools, community organizations, religious institutions, and prisons. EMP utilizes short films to engage young people in issues about culture, media, and its relationship to community. The outreach program culminates in an 18-month media literacy internship that offers young people sophisticated training in various stages of video production, including basic camera, audio, lighting, and grip work, as well as digital editing on a FinalCut 3 platform.

"The Cell Block Project" is a grassroots initiative that, for the last six years, has utilized live hip hop performances and, as of late, media literacy workshops within New York State prison confines to engage inmates and hip hop artists in a socially progressive dialogue about community and self-empowerment. The Cell Block Project is currently taking place at Rikers Island at the GVRC facility, which houses over 2,000 male inmates. Twice a month live performances and film screenings are held at the facility's gym- nasium during a one and half hour stretch. Currently, the Cell Block Project has been granted permission by the New York State Department of Education and the New York State Department of Corrections to begin a series of media literacy workshops for inmates at the GVRC facility. Inmates who demonstrate promise and dedication will be invited to participate in the ongoing Estilo Media Project internship. To date, the Cell Block Project has served over 10,000 inmates.

Virgilio Bravo, Executive Director
877 Empire Blvd. Suite A6
Brooklyn, NY 11213
Tel/Fax: (718) 735-3554
veebravo@aol.com

Ethical Marketplace
Ethical Marketplace is a 26, half-hour television series showcasing sustainability solutions and success stories benchmarking the highest ethics and standards of 21st century capitalism. The series is focused on catalyzing social change toward global economic and environmental sustainability, stories largely untold in mainstream media. A team of media and television entrepreneurs, successful TV producers, and leaders in the field of sustainability are spearheading the series. After the pilots are completed with foundation support, the group will raise another $1.2 million in private, strategic, and program-related investment funds to produce the entire season via an independent production company. The revenue stream to support the series past launch will be generation of income from socially responsible corporate underwriters and advertisers (80%) wishing to reach this audience of 50% of all U.S. adults owning stocks in 401Ks, pension plans, mutual funds, and other investments. Advertisers and underwriters ("best in class" in most industries as well as in specific "green" markets) will be screened on SRI standards by the pro-bono Editorial Board to assure integrity with the series mission. Also anticipated is income from distribution of education portions of the series, website and license opportunities in Europe, Latin America, and Asia (20%).

Ethical Marketplace is a window and forum for the frontier thinking, best practices, and leading innovators helping to evolve capitalism for the next 100 years. What are we growing with our investment dollars? How can ownership be most equitably distributed? What changes in thinking in leadership support new visions of capitalism? And what kinds of businesses provide social, as well as financial, value? Who's doing the work, and how did they connect with it? What industries are changing and how fast? Where is this happening around the world? How much success has there already been? What are entrenched stakeholders doing to prevent progress? This is a storyline with the vividness of "reality TV", visionaries and charismatics, fast growth industries, big ideas with "legs" in the U.S. and abroad – mostly unknown to audiences today. Many points on the frontier, such as social investing and sustainable technologies like fuel cells and wind power, have quietly built to substantial industries. But their stories are still secreted away in niche publications and conferences. Other frontier areas like microfinance, rethinking consumerism, new models of development, and women-owned enterprise are sources of inspiration. These major innovations can provide alternatives to our Enron's and the current economic and ethical malaise. Ethical Marketplace is conceived as the first offering of an ongoing media enterprise to satisfy demand for a new narrative about the future of markets on a small, interdependent planet.

Series Creator
Hazel Henderson, Chair, Editorial Board
PO Box 5190
St. Augustine, Fl 32137
Tel: (904) 829-3140
Fax: (904) 829-8676
hhlibry@hazelhenderson.com

Producer
Alvin H. Perlmutter
The Independent Production Fund
45 West 45th Street, Room 808
NY, NY 10036
Tel: (212) 221-6310, ext. 14
Fax: (212) 302-1854
ahp@ipf45.org

Five Points Media
Five Points Media is seeking funding and strategic partners for the documentary‚ Commune: Another Way To Live, which enters post-production in January. The challenge: how to acknowledge unrecognized changes in our society and reenergize the public towards progressive activism. The film looks at how ideas, particularly ideas of community and community involvement, are floated, debated, and created. Through the case study of three decades of a California community, the film will inspire viewers to see the possibility of new or renewed idealism and innovation in their own lives, work, and neighborhood. The project presents this wilderness commune as symbolic of much an alternative culture that ultimately led to a number of profound successes, such as civil rights, feminism, environmentalism, and a rediscovery of natural medicines. The film points out that much of that work lives and breathes today. The film has been funded by NY State Council on the Arts; the work in-progress was shown at SVN Fall 2002. It is a 501c3 not-for-profit project of the NY Foundation for the Arts and is produced by Jonathan Berman.

Five Points Media is currently involved in pre-production and fundraising on A Slow Roast, a documentary about corporate animal farming vs. the individual farmers as seen through the passion and love of barbecue in North Carolina. Sustainability meets sauce in this pork epic that crosses Michael Moore with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle to create a thought-provoking feature about our minds and our meat. The project is being produced under the fiscal sponsorship of the Earth Pledge Foundation. In addition to the film, we are cutting a half-hour infomercial from the material and other interviews. Our project partner, Robert F. Kennedy of Waterkeeper, has pledged to find the funding to buy commercial time on regional and other networks for the piece. The two-tiered project has some commitments in place for funding and seeks environmental foundation partners for this to be the media arm of the battle against corporate hog-farming.

Jonathan Berman
Five Points Media
195 Chrystie Street
#600E NY, NY 10002
Tel: (212) 505-9912
www.fivepointsmedia.org

The Fund For Jewish Documentary Filmmaking
The Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking, created in 1996 by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, was developed with seed money from Steven Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation and has provided finishing funds to thirty-eight (38) documentaries to date. The Righteous Persons Foundation has pledged a further $1 million challenge grant toward a $4 million endowment to support the Fund. This challenge grant enables pledges of any size to be matched on a one-to-three basis.

The Fund supports original documentaries in the final stages of post-production that address significant subjects, offer fresh and challenging perspectives, engage audiences across cultural lines, and influence the way various publics understand and interpret Jewish experience and concerns. Examples of the Fund's dynamic grantee films and their subjects include Promises (youth and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict); From Swastika to Jim Crow and Brownsville Black and White (historical interactions between the Black and Jewish communities); Trembling Before G-d (gay struggle in the Orthodox community); A Healthy Baby Girl (women's reproductive rights and the environment); and Strange Fruit (legacy of lynching and the song of resistance). Recipient films of the Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking have won wide acclaim, important awards, and critical recognition, including:

• Ten (10) films broadcast on PBS (roughly one third of the films have been on PBS)
• Seven (7) films have been released theatrically
• Two (2) Emmy awards
• One (1) Peabody Award
• One (1) Academy Award Nomination
For more information about the Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking and opportunities for investment, please contact:
Judith Rubin, Director of Development, and/or Nancy Schwartzman, Associate Program Director, Grants and Awards National Foundation for Jewish Culture (NFJC)
330 Seventh Avenue, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10001
Tel: (212) 629-0500
Fax: (212) 629-0508
www.jewishculture.org

Turned Out: Sexual Assault Behind Bars
Inmates in our nation's jails and prisons are subjected to rape with staggering frequency. In fact, the level of sexual coercion in U.S. prisons has been cited in violation of international human rights law. Traditionally, the flip treatment, given to the rape of male prisoners, by the entertainment media has reinforced a cynical view that depicts sexual predation behind bars as a morally justifiable act, indeed, one that is often served up as comedic fodder. Little attention is given to the impact prisoner rape has on its victims — or the communities and families of former inmates who inevitably return to society confined by patterns of shame and secrecy that preclude healing. Now, with the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2002 under debate in the Senate, combined with the momentum from the large number of prison rape lawsuits now pending and the successes of grassroots organizations, we are faced with a unique opportunity to eradicate prisoner rape. Turned Out: Sexual Assault Behind Bars will be a modest tool in this effort.

Turned Out is the first documentary to look at the cycle of sexual enslavement in a way that links its psychological aspects with the underground prison economy; it does so from the point of view of predators and prey, by humanizing and making more accessible its subjects. By going behind prison walls and presenting a reality the public is not likely to have seen (and, for some, does not care to see), Turned Out seeks to foster a new and enlightening public discourse on this important issue. Though graphic and provocative, the film is not about sensationalizing the act of sodomy. Instead, its goal is to demonstrate that sex behind bars is not an isolated moment of penetration between nameless, faceless stereotypes, but instead an act of violence, humiliation, domination -- and in some rare cases love -- between individuals struggling with their own diminished humanity. Turned Out exposes prison rape for what it is: an institutionalized part of prison culture, one that serves both the regulatory needs of our correctional system and the sociological and emotional needs of inmates. For more information, please contact:

Jonathan Schwartz
Interlock Media, Inc.
The Greenworks Building
160 Second Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: (617) 864-5625
director@interlockmedia.com

People Count
This project of the Barbara Pyle Foundation seeks additional funding for the worldwide distribution of a library of 55 films, a body of work that has won over 100 awards and prizes, including the UN Sasakawa Environment Prize, the highest international recognition in this field, presented by the Secretary General of the United Nations in 1997.This was the only time this was awarded to a member of the media. These films have demonstrated beneficial social change and activism, a true example of interactive television. The costs for updating and satellite distribution run approximately $7,000 per film, which can be brought down to $5,500 if the films are packaged and supplied in sets of 13. The cost per TV station using this series on social and environmental issues comes to $26 for a 13 half-hour series. Funds are also sought for continuing production of new films – one on the successful elimination of female genital circumcision (FGC) in Senegal and another on corporate social responsibility. Completion funds range from $50K to 75K for each of these two films.

Each of the films in the library addresses multiple issues and shows the interrelationship between them (such as the empowerment of women, job creation, family size, health, literacy, population growth, over-consumption and the impact on the environment). The entertaining programs about grassroots exemplars working to solve these interwoven problems for themselves have inspired television viewers to take action in their own communities. Due to the immense distribution network, these programs reach the viewer in their own home or through their community TV set. Barbara Pyle worked at Turner Broadcasting System for 20 years, where she served as TBS' Corporate VP of Environmental Policy and CNN's Environmental Editor. Since 1987, she has developed relationships with a wide range of television executives and program managers throughout the US and the world. She has also used CNN's World Report (165 TV stations, which has a combined viewership of 2 billion) as a global distribution network. In 2002, by working through many other TV groups (Regional Global Broadcasting Unions, U.S. Satellite Networks and affiliations of U.S. cable stations such as the Urban American Television Network), Pyle expanded this network tenfold to some 3,000. The films are distributed free to broadcasters to be used in perpetuity ensuring their widest possible use. The films are transmitted via satellite - in the US and internationally. INTELSAT provides donated satellite time as it did in 2002 for the film ONE CHILD – ONE VOICE. This partnership dates back to 1987, when Pyle began the international distribution project. The Barbara Pyle Foundation is a 501-(c)-3 founded in 1997.

Barbara Pyle Foundation, 4221 Brookview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30339
Tel: (770) 436-2059
Fax: (770) 436-2109
byepyle@aol.com
www.peoplecountTv.com

Population Media Center, Inc.
Population Media Center, Inc. (PMC) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that works worldwide to enlist broadcast and print media to educate people about the personal benefits of family planning, encourage the use of effective measures to prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS and other STDs, promote general reproductive health, elevate women's status and promote the concept of gender equity. PMC facilitates collaboration with radio and/or television broadcasters, appropriate government ministries and non-governmental organizations to design and implement a comprehensive media strategy for addressing reproductive health and sexual health as well as women's status. What makes PMC's radio and tele-vision programs unique are the use of long-running prime-time serial melodramas (on radio or television) in which characters gradually evolve into role models for the audience. This methodology, developed by Miguel Sabido of Mexico, has been remarkable in that it has attracted no serious opposition in any country in which it has been used. This stems, in part, from the thorough research conducted prior to the development of new programs in order to measure audience attitudes and norms with regard to the topics presented. Through the gradual evolution of characters in response to problems that many in the audience also are facing, soap operas can show adoption of new, non-traditional behaviors in a way that generates no negative response from the audience. PMC provides people with entertainment and information to help them make informed decisions without telling them what to do.

PMC currently has programs in various stages of development and implementation in Ethiopia, Mali, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Nigeria, Kenya, the Philippines, India, Brazil, Mexico, Sudan, the United States and a project with the United Nations Population Fund, which works region-wide in 15 countries throughout Asia and Africa. For example, in Ivory Coast and Mali, PMC is working in partnership with Ben & Jerry's to develop radio serials to change practices with regard to use of child slave labor in the cocoa industry, while simultaneously promoting planned parenthood and avoidance of AIDS.

Ashley Bryant
Population Media Center
PO Box 547
Shelburne, Vermont 05482-0547
Tel: (802) 985-8156
Fax: (802) 985-8119
Ashley@populationmedia.org
www.populationmedia.org

Spy Hop
Apprenticeship Program:
Spy Hop Productions is dedicated to providing young apprentices with hands-on experience and real world applications. Participants in the program are given the opportunity to create digital media in the realms of video production, web design, sound engineering, and the graphic arts. This unique program emphasizes the artistic, communicative, educational, and sociological facets of media creation and consumption. Apprentices create work for local non-profit organizations and small businesses while simultaneously developing personal portfolios. Most positions are paid, providing apprentices with valuable creative, technical, and vocational skills along with a part-time income.

Organizational History:
Spy Hop Productions was founded in November of 1999 to provide Salt Lake City youth access to multimedia production. Realizing that multimedia production encompasses a broad range of communication disciplines, Spy Hop chose to focus on photographic (still, video, and animation), musical and Internet media. Spy Hop offers workshops, private tutorials, and apprenticeships allowing diverse groups to create and produce powerful and exciting multimedia projects that combine images, video, audio, and text. While Spy Hop is open to people of all ages, the primary focus is giving young people along the Wasatch Front access to these dynamic mediums.

Mission:
Spy Hop Productions is a unique not-for-profit center specializing in educational solutions through multimedia arts. Dedicated to providing hands-on experience in video production, digital photography, music production, and web-based mediums, we offer training in the technical and creative aspects of multimedia production. These experiences enhance self-confidence and foster valuable career and social skills. Spy Hop Productions promotes critical thinking and media literacy, helping youth to judiciously evaluate the media barrage that defines our information age.

Rick Wray
Tel: (801) 949.5925
rick@spyhop.org
Erik Dodd
Tel: (801) 949.5863
erik@spyhop.org

Thou Shalt Honor Foundation
Town Hall Meeting Series
A Multiple Media Presentation
We are a nation that has more parents to care for than children. Eldercare has replaced childcare as the number one health care issue. As a result, a monumental public policy debate has commenced — again — at both the national and individual state levels. It concerns perhaps the largest social and financial dilemma our nation has faced: how to fund the care of our elderly and frail. How we treat our elderly and vulnerable citizens defines us as a society. The Medicare and Medicaid programs have been the funding vehicles for nearly forty years. Both programs face serious funding challenges and are under attack. Policy makers, industry leaders, volunteers, and professional caregivers (over 50 million Americans) recognize the issues and are striving for resolution. A solution is not obvious. Yet never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has (Margaret Mead).

Building on the overwhelming success of the And Thou Shalt Honor?, a PBS Program "Pick of the Month" broadcast on October 9, the newly created Thou Shalt Honor Foundation proposes to produce a series of high-visibility CareGiver and Eldercare Town Hall Meetings in conjunction with local PBS stations in twenty major markets over the next 20 months, culminating in over 20 hours of regional PBS programming. The meetings are an objective forum to air diverse views and concerns about the issue; they are staged in multi-cultural and geographic settings. A state-by-state rating of caregiving effectiveness, authored by Consumer Union and Consumer Reports, is one planned outcome. The meetings will end in Washington, DC in September 2004 with a PBS nationally televised Town Hall Meeting and Washington Mall rally. All broadcasts will be supported with an extensive outreach campaign. Based on our ATSH multiple media model, a series of companion books will be published, interactive DVDs will be created, and an interactive online website with informational database will be created. We seek funding in the amount of $4.5 million to conduct our investigation and to timely deliver our findings through public television production and distribution as well as other companion forms of media.

Harry Wiland, Executive Producer
And Thou Shalt Honor
Wiland-Bell Productions
c/o Culver Studios
9336 W. Washington Blvd. Bldg. F.
Culver City, CA 90232
Tel: (310) 202-3370 Tel
Fax: (310) 202-3397
Cell: (310) 770-1308
harry@wilandbellprod.com
www.thoushalthonor.org


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