A: Raising money for a great cause (and inspiring people while you’re at it).
By donating to Cinema Ventures’ non-profit screening tour of The Burning Season you achieve both!
As critics and commentators and environmentalists have been telling us for years, climate change is the most pressing problem facing the first world in the 21st century. A huge proportion of global warming is contributed by the burning of Indonesian rainforests, with the added downside that this burning destroys habitats and orphans hundreds of endangered orangutans every year.
By hosting a community fundraising screening of The Burning Season you can raise money and awareness to help stop the clearing of these precious forests and protect the future of our simian friends.
If you haven't already heard, The Burning Season is a brilliant and inspiring documentary that highlights the extent of the forest burning problem and proposes a real world solution to stop it. But to work, this solution - a carbon trading scheme where protection of the rainforests becomes more valuable than their destruction for palm oil plantations - needs the support of the entire community.
That's where you come in.
The more people that see The Burning Season the more chance carbon trading has of happening sooner rather than later. Which means giving the fragile oranutan population more chance to survive. By either donating to Cinema Ventures or working with us to organise a screening, we can take this critical message to more people than traditional cinema screenings are able.
Spreading the
message is exactly what Melanie Vandervord, corporate events manager
for investment bank Goldman Sachs JBWere, hoped to achieve when she
arranged a fundraising screening at Sydney's Circular Quay.
Anticipation of the screening spred throughout the company and beyond.
Then an anonymous donor from New Jersey who became involved with the
plight of the orang-utans after seeing The Burning Season at the
Tribeca Film Festival premiere in New York agreed to match proceeds
raised from her special screening up to $20,000. Dollar for dollar. “It is just amazing how things can happen,” Melanie said.
“I just wanted to do something to be proactive and this has come about. It just shows we can all make a difference.”
There might not be many more anonymous New Jersey benefactors out there, but every one of us has the chance to make a difference to the rainforests and to climate change.
By taking The Burning Season on the road, with all expenses met from donations like yours, Cinema Ventures dedicates 100% of the box office to environmental rescue, either locally or via the recommended campaigns listed on film's website. Your donation will help The Burning Season screen in community halls, schools, Church halls and in cinemas throughout regional Australia.
Each screening will be hosted by a local environmental group. If your local group wants to host a screening of The Burning Season, please email: gil@cinemaventures.org or call Gil Scrine on (07)33910124 to register your interest.
But you can easily donate by clicking through to the Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) and nominating Cinema Ventures as your preferred funding recipient. Donations forms can be downloaded here – amounts above $2.00 are tax deductible!
www.cinemaventures.org
www.theburningseasonmovie.com