SPECIAL THANKS

SPONSORS

Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Madeline and Steve Anbinder

AT&T Foundation

Bloomberg News

Lois and Irving Blum Foundation

The Chasanoff Foundation

Church World Service

Cobble Creek Foundation

Community Counseling Service

Denver Film Society

Frances Lear Foundation

HBO

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Independent Film Channel  (IFC)

International Creative Management (ICM)

Latham and Watkins

MAC Global Foundation

MGM

Microsoft Foundation

Miramax

Paul Newman

Peter and Lorinda Ezersky Family Foundation

The Pointer Foundation

Rock-It-Cargo

Nancy and Miles Rubin

Tribeca Films

The Waitt Family Foundation 

Vanity Fair

Variety

Vogue

Vertu Americas Inc. 

Universal

William Sloane Jelin Charitable Foundation

The Wrather Family Foundation

CONTENT DONORS --- FILMS

B.Z. Goldberg, The Promises Film Project

Cascade Health Communication Group

Catherine Stewart and Patricia van der Heerden, South Africa

Cartoon Network

Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University

Derval Whelan, Sony Pictures Classics

Devlin Video

Documentary Educational Resources (DER)

Dominant 7, France

Esras Films Ltd.

Film Resource Unit (FRU)

First Run/Icarus Films

Iris Films

Gotham Pictures

Joseph Kumbela, 17 Films Production

Lemle Pictures 

Media for Development Trust, Zimbabwe

Mennonite Central Committee

Marcis bv

M-Net Magicworks, South Africa

Na Eng

Noggin

Perrine Ledan, European Union, Technical Assistance for Cinema, Africa Caribbean Pacific

Sally Smith and Steve Smith,
Media for Development International

Sara Cameron

Search for Common Ground

Shantha Bloemen

Sony Pictures Classics

The Rockefeller Foundation

Tunde Kelani, Main Frame Film and TV Production, Nigeria

TVE, Television for the Environment, London

UNICEF

Wildlife Awareness Foundation

World Health Organization (WHO)

EQUIPMENT DONORS

BARCO

Innerspace Cases

Keno Electronics, Inc.
 
Nocturne Productions

PSL

UNHCR

Warner Brothers

Vidicon, LLC

OTHER IN-KIND DONORS

@radical.media

British Army, Kenya

Cimarron Group

Clique3x

CMC Engineering

Columbia University's Center for Global Health and Economic Developement

Matt Ebert

Express Kenya LTD

General Audio-Visual Inc., GAVI, New York

Heller New York

Laser Pacific Media Corporation

Lipson, Alport, Glass & Associates, Chicago
 
Magali, France

Outpost Digital

Pivotal Post

Rock-It-Cargo, USA

Safaricom

ScharffWeisberg Inc.

Sight and Sound, Nairobi

Studio Copy, Los Angeles

TRIKE Creative, Los Angeles

Video Volunteers

Visual Trends Development, Los Angeles

Pardis Mahdavi, Oliver Smith and Mana Tanaka, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs,
New York

FilmAid's Mobile Cinema: Mary's Miracle!

At first glance, the petite, energetic, quick to smile, intensely professional producer/director Mary Soan, U.K. representative to the FilmAid Advisory Committee, might seem an unlikely candidate to produce the design and supervise the building of FilmAid's mighty mobile cinema truck which draws crowds of 13,000 viewers in a single evening at Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya. But looks are often deceiving --- and Mary Soan's natural gifts of creativity, ingenuity, charm and dogged determination --- coupled with her passion for the mission of FilmAid and the willingness to sacrifice several months of gainful employment --- resulted in what has become the heart of FilmAid's programs in East Africa: our mobile cinema truck.

FilmAid thanks Mary Soan for this miracle vehicle and all the joy it brings.


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