On Thursday ~ Saturday, May 17th, 18th, & 19th,
The FILManthropy Society presents:
2012 FILManthropy Festival
“Open Your Eyes”

This unique event is a canvas for instigating and inspiring change. This innovative Festival showcases films that inspire, educate, raise awareness and motivate, so that audiences may open their minds and their hearts to creating a better world. Filmmakers selected to participate in this pioneering event vie for "The Torch Awards," and the opportunity to support their favorite charity. Upon submitting, filmmakers are asked to select a charity close to them for which they hope to raise funds and awareness. The Festival's net proceeds are split three ways, donated to the charities supported by the Torch Award-winning filmmakers in the following three categories: Best Short, Best Feature and Audience Favorite.  

WHAT:
FILManthropy FESTIVAL – Open Your Eyes
The FILManthropy Festival is a means to use, support and promote film as a way to help make the world a better place while, at the same time, also honoring the very medium in which those issues are presented.

• Screening of eye opening Films
• Silent Auction
• Spirits and fabulous hors d’oeuvres
 
WHEN: 
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
3:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Film Screenings
7:30 pm: Special Presentation

Friday, May 18th, 2012
3:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Film Screenings
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm: Special Screening and Q&A

Saturday, May 19th, 2012
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm : Film Screenings
6:30 pm: Red Carpet
7:00 pm: Gala Awards Ceremony

WHERE:  
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building I
Santa Monica, California

TICKETS:
$10 per movie
$50 All Day Movie Pass
$100 Awards Ceremony
$180 All Access Pass
$250 VIP
*tickets may be purchased www.FILManthropyfestival.org
 
GET INVOLVED:
• Submit a Film
• Make a Financial Contribution
• Purchase Tickets to the event
• Become a Corporate Sponsor
• Donate to the Silent Auction
• Contribute to the Swag Bag
 
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FILManthropy FESTIVAL - Films will be presented at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, followed by an evening award celebration featuring dinner, entertainment, and a silent auction. The Festival will present the "Filmanthropist of the Year" award, honoring a high-profile philanthropist who is equally as involved in the entertainment industry. Charities are encouraged to set up information booths during the Festival and at the awards party.

ABOUT The FILManthropy Society™
The FILManthropy Society™, is an organization that helps, through business, the fortunate and able, so they can help, through philanthropy, the less fortunate and less able. The organization grew into existence out of a need for an organization that could not only affect positive change in the world, but could also be a place that allowed and nurtured those changes to take place. Members are proactive in volunteering their time and energy to benefit causes that are on the forefront of attention as well as those that are overlooked.  For more information please visit filmanthropysociety.org.