Be a Sponsor!
Deadline for Program Guide and Advertising sponsorship is August 1, 2008.
Download the Sponsorship Guide here for more information.
Download the Sponsorship Guide here for more information.
Dear Community Partner,
Take this opportunity to be part of the magic. We’d like to invite you to participate in the second Annual WildRivers 101 Film Festival – a 12-day cinema and digital media extravaganza, August 27 through September 7, coming soon to a forest or theatre near you. A destination festival, WildRivers 101 will attract guests from out of the area, as well as provide excellent programming to local residents from Garberville to Crescent City.
This 12-day event will feature screenings of classic, obscure, and independent films and digital media at historic venues all along the Highway 101 corridor. The venues include this year’s film festival hub, the Eureka Theatre, the Minor Theatre, Garberville Theatre, Fortuna Theatre, Morris Graves Museum, and others. This year we are pleased to include outdoor screenings in our local treasures – the California State Parks, as part of their evening campfire series. All proceeds of the presentations in the Parks will be donated to support their ever-important recreational and educational programs. Proceeds from other screenings, including the HC premier of Humboldt County, the movie, will go to the Humboldt Film and Digital Media Commission, Sanctuary Stage, the Ink People, the Wine Consortium and the WildRivers 101 Film Fest.
In addition to great cinema, there will be visiting filmmakers, Q & A sessions, actor’s workshops and panel discussions. Then plug in at Canopy: A Digital Bridge (HSU, Access Humboldt, Humboldt Film and Digital Media Commission, StreamGuys, WR 101, others) featuring workshops, presentations and forums on the changing trends in media, video game design, production, editing, and short content media, exploring how the Redwood Region can become a digital media hub. And if that’s not enough, there will be a blow-your-mind Eureka Arts Alive! visual media surprise. This is a “not to miss” evening of multi-media magic the evening of Sept. 6, from the Morris Graves – throughout Old Town. And Arcata’s Localpalooza!
Because film festivals are gaining enormous popularity worldwide, the WildRivers 101 will be an annual event. Established festivals such as Sundance and Telluride bring in thousands of visitors each year, with more than 92% of attendees traveling from out of the area. We have paradise and passion to make the WR 101 a world-class event, as film tourism is becoming a global phenomenon. We enlist your support and in turn, showcase your business as one of the festival’s premier sponsors and/or advertisers.
To let you know what that means to us, as a sponsor of the WildRivers 101 Film Festival, in addition to the knowledge that your support is helping make our new event possible, you could receive:
- Complimentary advertising for your business in the film festival’s program guide, with advance distribution at key locations in Calif. and So. Oregon, including inserts in local newspapers.
- Your business website link on our website, MySpace, and other SNS (social networking sites).
- Invitations to special award ceremonies, free admission, festival all access VIP passes. Opportunities for acknowledgement in radio, TV, print, YouTube and/ or online ads.
- Your logo placement on our posters and/or Ink People newsletter insert.
- Acknowledgement at specific screening events and other goodies!
- Exposure during podcasts or video spots.
We hope you will take advantage of this great opportunity to receive excellent exposure for your business, while helping support this vibrant new event in our area. Check out the attached sponsorship options and see what works best for you. Please call or email with any questions or ideas. Thank you!
I appreciate your consideration and look forward to seeing you at the theatre/s!
Warm Regards,
Mary Cruse, WildRivers 101 Film Festival Founder/Director
520 E Street, Eureka, CA 95501 - office: 707-444 -6633 - cell: 707-223-8462 - wildrivers101@gmail.com