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Bring Dirty Business to your Community
For a limited time only, you can host a screening of Dirty Business for the special discounted price of $7. This offer ends Monday, October 31st. Join the hundreds of youth, faith leaders, workers on the front lines, already sparking discussion with their families, friends, coworkers and communities by organizing a screening today.
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Reel Change Wrap Up
The second in our traveling series of Reel Change workshops took place in San Francisco last month. This training is designed to develop the skills of audience-engagement coordinators to manage social-issue film campaigns. Read all about it here and watch our newsletter for information about our next Reel Change training, expected to happen on the East Coast in 2012.
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Working Films celebrates An American Promise and Semper Fi at Cucalorus
  
Working Films is hosting a celebration of two films that are part of the line up in the hip local indie film fest, Cucalorus.
Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon's award-winning film, Semper Fi: Always Faithful tells the story of Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger who devoted 25 years of service to the U.S. Marines. While he was stationed at Camp Lejeune, his 9-year-old daughter died from a rare form of leukemia. The film follows Ensminger's quest to find out why. His exhaustive search for answers leads him to discover a cover-up of one of the worst cases of toxic water contamination in U.S. history.
An American Promise (work in progress), co-directed by Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster, documents the education of two African American boys from kindergarten through their high school graduation in 2012. A complex picture emerges of racial identity, education, privilege and parenting in this groundbreaking personal verite film.
Please join us Saturday, November 12, 6pm - 8pm, at the Working Films firehouse on Castle St. and Fifth Ave., Wilmington, N.C. This event is open to Cucalorus donors, pass holders, and filmmakers only. Buy a Cucalorus pass here.
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Reimagining the Region: Building a New Detroit Metropolis
On September 15th, a forum centered around Andrea Torrice's documentary series The New Metropolis was hosted at the Emagine Royal Oak Theater in Detroit. Made possible through the support of the Ford and Surdna Foundations, this event was part of The New Metropolis civic engagement dialogue series taking place across the country on revitalizing America's older communities. Working Films co-organized two strategy summits in advance of this Detroit event, bringing together local community stakeholders to secure their input and commitment. Read more about the event on our blog.
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Reel Food
Reel Food is a unique residential workshop coming Nov. 5-9th to San Francisco. Bringing nonfiction media-makers who tell powerful stories about food and agriculture together with nonprofits that work for healthy, just and sustainable communities, Reel Food is designed to hone filmmakers' audience-engagement plans, seed cross-promotion and generate concrete partnerships among the documentary projects and NGOs. This workshop will support a variety of media-based campaigns including feature-length films, shorts, online initiatives and transmedia projects. Read more about the selected projects on our website.
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Working Films goes to the Emmys (vicariously!)
 
We'd like to congratulate the teams behind Gasland, Good Fortune and Freedom Riders on their Emmy Awards! Josh Fox of Gasland is a part of our Reel Power initiative, and Good Fortune co-director Jeremy Levine was a former Working Films fellow.
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Story Leads to Action
Semper Fi: Always Faithful
Catch a screening of Semper Fi in NYC on October 27th, 7:30pm at 92YTribeca. Purchase tickets here.
Working Films is now partnering with Semper Fi: Always Faithful on screenings in North Carolina, including its first "non-festival" premiere in Jacksonville, home of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, immediately following the Cucalorus screening. We are developing and coordinating a national community-engagement campaign with the film in 2012.
Funding Opportunities
Check out our Filmmaker Resources page to see a list of foundations that fund social-issue filmmaking and engagement efforts.
Media That Matters Festival
October 27, 7:00pm @ School of Visual Arts Theatre in New York City.
Reel Power: Strength in Numbers
What happens when filmmakers who are supposed to compete for the same audiences band together for the environmental movement? Watch the video above to find out!
Watch videos from our Impact series!
Nancy Schwartzman's new film, xoxosms, will be screening Sunday, October 16th, 2:20pm at Theaters Canal Place. Click here for more info.
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