Did You Know?
In its 2010 report titled “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water”, the World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) confirms that while progress continues to be made, 10% of the world’s population, or approximately 672 million people, will still lack access to safe drinking water sources by 2015. Unfortunately, the clean water crisis does not get the same level of attention as other natural disasters even though more people die from illnesses caused by drinking dirty water than from earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis and floods combined. Experts estimate that a child dies every 15 seconds due to water related illnesses.
We're NOT Cool With That
Journey’s Crossing, in partnership with Living Water International and several other sponsoring organizations, plans to host a short film festival in the June of 2012 to raise awareness of the clean water crisis and to raise funds to install one or more wells in communities selected by Living Water and Journey’s Crossing (a $12,000 project!).
The Main Event
The festival will be held on Saturday, June 16th, 2011 at the Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, MD. Short films from a variety of genres will be accepted. Although not required, films where water or the issue of clean water is a prominent element will be given special consideration. Official guidelines will be available on
our website soon.
Filmmakers
An official website with more information will be released soon, so stay tuned for details! Feel free to email Tiffany@reelwaterfilmfest.org with questions or to subscribe to our mailing list and stay in the loop!
Volunteers
We'll need many, many, many (did we mention many?) volunteers to make this a successful event! If you're interested in helping out, please contact Tiffany@reelwaterfilmfest.org.
Sponsorship
Are you a business owner who wants to make a difference? Great! We are offering fantastic sponsorship benefits to businesses who are interested!
Download this pdf to read about our sponsorship benefits, or email OSage@e-mcinc.com.