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1 May 2007
Contents- Contest: Win tickets to Urinetown
- A Peak into PTFF���s operations
- PTFFF Plus One
- Big Volunteer News
- Farmers Market Merchandise Sale
- Call for Entries: What You Got!
WIN TICKETS FOR URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL
You could be the lucky winner of two tickets to Urinetown: The Musical!
A most generous (and anonymous) donor recently purchased a sponsorship
on behalf of the Port Townsend Film Institute in Bainbridge Performing
Art���s production of Urinetown: The Musical. Since we have been given
a block of tickets to their Saturday, May 12 performance and reception
we want to make them available to you!
PTFF will raffle off five pairs of Urinetown tickets to our 2007 Port
Townsend Film Institute members on Monday May 7th at noon. Please be
sure to sign up or renew
your membership by then to be eligible for this
amazing drawing.
The Bainbridge Performing Arts production of Urinetown runs from May
11-13, 18-20, and 25-27 with show times starting on Fridays and Saturdays
at 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays at 3pm. For additional information please
visit BPA online at http://bpa.dynalias.org/.
From the Bainbridge
Performing Arts Website:
Urinetown, The Musical describes itself as an ���absurdist melodrama about
a city in the midst of a drought so devastating that a malevolent corporation
has been able to take control of all the toilet facilities. Greed, corruption
and betrayal run rampant and the public desperately seeks relief.��� It
pokes fun at local government, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement,
petty-minded and small-town politics, musical theatre convention and
even itself.
Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Circle Critics��� Awards, two
Lucille Lortel Awards, and two Obie Awards Urinetown�Ķ is a spoof that
is also sincere, a fringe hit that captured mainstream audiences, an
edgy stylistic romp with some provoking underlying ideas. Lying somewhere
between The Beggar���s Opera and West Side Story, Urinetown�Ķ is a contemporary
musical satire with a heart.
A PEAK BEHIND FESTIVAL OPERATIONS
Some people are surprised to hear that people work full time, year round
to run the Port Townsend Film Institute the umbrella organization to
the festival. But when you consider that it will cost upwards of $250,000
to conduct the 2007 Port Townsend Film Festival and other year round
activities you can see why. The costs to transform Taylor Street into
a free outdoor cinema ($6,500), to fly our VIP Guest and their spouse
to Port Townsend first class ($1,300) or to ship a single film from South
Korea ($750) make the numbers add up.
It is during the seeming ���down periods��� of the festival (November through
May) that the Institute���s staff work to bring in the necessary funding.
This year we would like to raise 40% of our income, almost $100,000,
through cash sponsorships.
Unlike outright donations, sponsorships offer organizations marketing
opportunities during the festival. Benefits can include having your logo
on the festival banner, poster, video trailer, and in the festival program
guide. So we are busy calling, writing, meeting with organizations who
might consider partaking in this opportunity.
We have amazingly generous sponsors who commit each and every year to
being festival sponsors. Here are a few who are returning for 2007: Sport
Townsend, Don���s Pharmacy, Morgan Hill Getaways, Lehani���s, The Green Eyeshade,
Food Co-op and the Rose Theatre.
We would like to welcome some new sponsors to the festival including
BaffleGab, John L Scott Real Estate, Richard Berg Architects, Seacraft
Classics and the Law firm of Platt Irwin and Taylor. Thank you for your
support!
PTFF PLUS ONE
It can be exceptionally difficult for well deserving non-profits
to communicate their good works to the community. ��But did you know
that businesses and individuals could purchase a Port Townsend Film
Festival sponsorship on behalf of another nonprofit! You can quite
literally help two nonprofits, PTFF plus one other education or charitable
organization, at the same time.
Imagine an accountant or a lawyer who does not want or need anymore
business. She could buy a PTFF sponsorship for a favorite charity
instead. ��By purchasing a PTFF sponsorship on behalf of an organization,
say Olympic Mountain Pet Pals as an example, she supports them with
the additional public exposure. Pet Pals could have their logo on
a theatre banner, in the program, and in the wildly popular video
trailers. This helps to raise awareness of all the Olympic
Mountain Pet Pals services (like their spay/neuter and feral cat program)
to better the lives of our companion animals. Additionally she is
financially supporting PTFF. Two for the price of one!
The Port Townsend Film Festival is a wonderful communication vehicle.
By supporting PTFF you support our community.
BIG Volunteer NEWS
Breaking news: From now on ALL volunteer passes and vouchers will be
good at ANY theatre and for ANY screening on a space available basis!
��You are no longer restricted to the Broughton Theatre so if you want
to see a film down at the Rosebud, if there is space available after
the pass and tickets holders are seated, you may have a seat.
So we recommend that you sign up to volunteer today! We have many volunteer
openings including some key leadership positions including:
- Box Office Manager
- Distribution Manager ��� Brochures and Posters
- Guest Services Co-coordinator
- Membership Chair
- Music Director
- Publicist ��� Writing PR
You can also sign up to work the farmers market booth, distribute brochures
and posters, work a hospitality table, handle tickets, etc. Did you know
that by volunteering to work 12 hours for the Port Townsend Film Festival
you could earn that volunteer festival pass? ��And, if you want all your
time to watch movies, you can volunteer to work before the festival���s
September 28-30 weekend.
If you are interested please be sure to complete an online
volunteer application form ASAP. ��The more we learn about you, your interests and
your time commitment, the better we will be to match you to a job that
you���ll enjoy.
FARMERS MARKET MERCHANDISE
SALE
PTFF will be at the opening day of the PT Farmers Market (corner Tyler
and Lawrence Streets) this Saturday, May 5 from 9:30 AM to 1 PM to conduct
our annual Merchandise sale. ��Come by and pickup some wonderful bargains
on previous festival hats, t-shirts, posters, totes, etc. while supporting
the festival!
CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Olympia Film Society presents WHAT YOU GOT? the fourth annual Olympia
21 and Under Fest from June 28th - July 1st, 2007. This Fest showcases
movies, music, art, comics, spoken word and everything in between by
folks 21 and under. ��It is their ambition to cultivate youth-teen culture
everywhere by providing a venue for the creative and artistic efforts
of all youth. ��
Accepting: movies, films or videos of any genre and length. ��Will take:
Animation, experimental, music video, short, feature, narrative, or documentary.
If you do computer art, submit a disc to play in the new-media installations.
��If you make comic books or graphic novels, send a copy to add to the
Comics Library.
Download entry forms and call for entry flyers and check out updates
at: www.olyfilm.org/whatyougot .
The submission deadline is May 15, 2007. For additional information call
The Olympia Film Society at 360-754-3635 x 3 or olyteenfest@yahoo.com