Host us on a Screening Tour?
What does it take to organize a screening and host Tim and Sally for a stop on a screening tour?
1) Transportation for us to and from an Amtrak station, or local public transportation.
2) A place to stay and transportation to and from the screening venue. We actually prefer a guest room in someone’s home to a hotel so this doesn’t have to be an expensive accommodation. However, morning coffee is important.
3) Guarantee of a minimum of $500 for our stipend. We are happy to split the proceeds above the $500 after that minimum is met.
4) The opportunity to sell our DVDs at the screening, and a person to help with that.
And what does it take to pull off a successful screening?
A venue: This can be a community center, church, quiet restaurant, local theater, or even a private home. This means having a digital projector, sound system (key component), and the ability to make the room dark. Comfortable seating helps and if you want a dialogue circle the ability to move chairs or move to a meeting room is helpful. Unitarian churches have often been great venues as they usually have all of the equipment, and also a meeting room. Theaters are good for comfortable seating but tend to put the kibosh on sitting in a circle afterward, to engage in real dialogue.
Promotion: this includes press releases to newspapers, local radio stations, email lists, handbills & flyers. Tim and Sally are open for coming a day early if there is an opportunity for a radio interview and can also do interviews over the phone. We are also open to bookstore appearances, pre- or post-screening talks and seminars at colleges and universities, potlucks with local organizers, one- and even three-day dialogue workshops, etc..
One person who is committed can certainly do all of the work to put a screening into place. But our experience is that a small group working together is more effective and more fun. We are happy to meet and have a meal with the organizing group before and/or after as part of the deal. Some groups have organized follow-up meals and more in-depth dialogues the following day. We are open to that depending on travel schedules.
Interested? Contact Sally at producer@whatawaytogomovie.com.