WeOwnTV: Idriss Kpange Filmmaker Fellowship

We Have Alot to Be Thankful For: On Saturday, November 7th 2015, Sierra Leone was declared Ebola free. After 42 days with no new cases, the epidemic is finally under control! But there’s still critical work to do to help families, communities and the country rebuild. 

Join us on #GivingTuesday, December 1st: As many of you know, our non-profit WeOwnTV, founded a media center in Freetown Sierra Leone in 2009 and has been supporting a talented collective of Sierra Leonean filmmakers ever since. Thanks to generous support we’ve recently received, we’ve signed a two-year lease on an amazing new space for the WeOwnTV, Freetown Media Center. Our non-profit is putting all of our fundraising efforts on GivingTuesday towards turning that space into the best equipped locally-owned-and-run production facility in the country.

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving, dedicated to supporting amazing causes. Next Tuesday, WeOwnTV will join charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity.  Our goal by December 1st is to raise enough funds to outfit two new editing suites at the Media Center, add a new 5k Honda generator with proper line conditioners and connect us to a newly available high-speed Internet. We have already raised $20,000 of our $35,000 goal and are looking to raise our funding gap of $15,000. AND our project has been selected to receive matching funds up to $1000 per donor!!! 

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Why support the Media Center?
The WeOwnTV Freetown Media center did an outstanding job creating grassroots media to spread lifesaving information during the Ebola crisis.

Additionally, the team worked tirelessly as journalists, capturing the unfolding events around them and adding a much-needed African perspective to how history is being written, recorded and understood.

http://survivorsfilm.com/survivors-teaser/

With Gratitude,

Banker White, Anna Fitch, Arthur Pratt, Lansana 'Barmmy Boy' Mansaray
& The entire WeOwnTV Family

Greeting to all our incredible supporters!

I wanted to reach out and thank you all again for the incredible support you have given us during this difficult time. We are nearing an important milestone here in Sierra Leone.  If no new cases are reported by November 7th it will mark 42 consecutive days and Sierra Leone will be declared Ebola Free.

Everybody in Sierra Leone is ready to turn the page and begin rebuilding our country. At the WeOwnTV Freetown Media Center, we have begun to shift our social impact activities to address more complex psychosocial issues affecting the country. We have renamed our campaign accordingly to, "Now The Healing Begins: Life After Ebola." 

We know too well how events like our civil war in the 90's can actually define how you are know to the international world.  It is there for critical that we have a voice in how this history is written. We are very proud of what we have accomplished so far in engaging Sierra Leonean media-makers and community members to be a major part of this effort and have put together an ambitious production schedule through 2016.

I look forward to updating you all as we begin to share our accomplishments.

I recently uploaded a personal message about the importance of media participation that I would like to share:

A Message from Arthur Pratt

As we near the end of the year I ask that you continue to support our efforts in Sierra Leone. You can do this by sharing this campaign with other who might consider a donation, increasing your donation to the project and by simply reaching out to members of our team with words of support.  

With my deepest gratitude,

Arthur Pratt

Links:

• Our Survivors film & the Importance of Media Participation