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The best part of being with the film when it screens is we get to answer questions and keep the inspirational channel going.

In each city, we always meet a new foster youth and build a new bond on the planet.

we’re so grateful won’t you help us by arranging a screening in your town today? Your local LGBTQ Community Center might want to help, the local university might have a GSA, social justice, social worker, law club that might fund the venue and offer airline miles to bring us to you….

We’ve got 6 digits of production debt that small fundraisers all across America could help eliminate so that we can make more films and create more change.

JOIN US it’s easy..we provide posters, DVD, love and more
fosteryouthfilm@gmail.com

For sharing!

Merry Holidays to you no matter how you title it!

If you were thinking of buying a DVD of America’s Most Unwanted–NOW is the time to do it! I’ve set up a fundraising campaign so that you can purchase a DVD while making one available to foster youth for free!

I call it the Buy1 Give1 Campaign
you can contribute and share the campaign to bring attention to the film and the issues we raise HERE
( http://bit.ly/FREE_DVDS )

Honestly, we can not meet this goal without YOUR HELP and this is the MOST IMPORTANT GOAL for the project!

It has been proven over and over, in psychology, through studies of media,  that positive images help inspire people towards change in their life--we’ve all witnessed it–and I know that you’ve all told me that you learned a lot about foster youth and felt inspired too from seeing my film.

Won’t you help me achieve this final and most important step?

Share, contribute, promote–Only YOU can help get this film to the youth! You are the village that helped us get this far.
Thank you for all you do!

….
Big Blessings for a warm holiday season,
Shani Heckman
film director, America’s Most Unwanted

Be sure to catch a screening of AMERICA’S MOST UNWANTED at the Palm Springs Gay and Lesbian Film Festival! Sunday, 9/23/12 at 4:30pm, Theatre Three.

http://cinemadiverse.ning.com/page/schedule-1

Be sure to catch a screening of AMERICA’S MOST UNWANTED at Bay Area Ladyfest! Saturday, 9/15/12 between 6:30-8pm.

http://bayarealadyfest.wordpress.com/schedule-of-events/

Be sure to catch a screening of AMERICA’S MOST UNWANTED at Astoria Q-Film Weekend! Saturday Oct 6, 2012 Matinee Screening in Oregon.

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/274126

Be sure to catch a screening of AMERICA’S MOST UNWANTED at Gender Reel‘s 2012 Festival!  September 7-9, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA

http://genderreelfest.com/?page_id=1341

Be sure to catch a screening of AMERICA’S MOST UNWANTED at the Oakland Art & Soul Festival!

Sunday, 8/5/12:
12:30 Short Documentary Brunch at City Hall
1 Frank H Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA 94612

Be sure to catch a screening of AMERICA’S MOST UNWANTED at this year’s Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival: August 7-12, 2012!

SUCCESS! One of the biggest sources of salvation for many foster youth has been achievement and success. America’s Most Unwanted is proud to share that our San Francisco Premiere on May 17, 2012 was standing room only!

PRESS!
* We received outstanding support from our friends at Advocate Magazine—placing us as reason #16 to have Pride this June, 2012!~ read and share HERE!
*Featured story in the Bay Area Reporter, where we celebrated Teruko Dobashi’s graduation from  Cal Berkeley! Her speech given to the Guardian Scholars Program there will be on our DVD coming out in July!

On May 31^st, 2012 the film screened in Out Twin Cities film festival~ a benefit screening for Host Home Program who work to house homeless youth in the Twin Cities area! What a great way to use our film to benefit the homeless LGBTQI youth community!

We owe a lot of gratitude for our SF Premier’s Success to Audrey Driver, Sierra Parson, Lauren Greene, Alisa K. Moore, Tali Poran, Chris Dunaway, Pamela Peniston, Beth Savage,  Jenn Koscielniak, Dawn Huston, Cannon Brook, CASA, Kurt Gouldman, Family Builders and The Bay Area Training Academy for making the event a reality! In addition to catering of sandwiches, salads and drinks by Family Builders, Trader Joe’s Soma & Rockridge donated desserts and snacks and El Rio donated beverages!

We had to cancel our raffle portion of the event to focus more on our education goals of the event but we will be using these awesome donations from PhilzCoffee, City Lights Books, Essence Therapeutics, Mighty MINNOW Web School, Bell & Trunk flowers, Slim’s, & Jeffrey’s Natural Pet Food.

We will be using these wonderful donations for our upcoming KICKSTARTER campaign for the USA Town Hall Tour of America’s Most Unwanted!  Get involved here: fosteryouthfilm@gmail.com

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:

FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE FRAMELINE 36:
This SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2012 11am at the Victoria Theatre on 16th street in San Francisco!
Tickets HERE: http://ticketing.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=2649&FID=49
***The film could win a much needed and coveted AT&T Audience Award, if you vote for us by texting this code on the day: AT&T Audience Award Text Voting Code: S307****

***We’d love to bring the film to your town! Contact shaniheckman@gmail.com today to start the process.

 Check out this new content from our project,  MATILDA STUBBS PhD candidate, recent mother and former foster youth: http://youtu.be/GYT_ZPsna6Y

We’re compiling additional interview footage from foster youth not included in the final cut and using the edits to further capture our mission: making life better for LGBTQI foster youth by bringing attention to their situation!

Life can be better if these youth can find adults to be in their lives!

THANK YOU TO OUR RECENT FINANCIAL DONORS: Sharon Gellar & MB Peterson, DJ Jamez Vibe Genie  and Dominique De Guzman who arranged a ticket donation from OutBlackrock.

There’s still time to show your support and receive credit listing in the film–We will end this opportunity at the end of July when the Educational DVD is released! To make a tax deductible contribution through our fiscal sponsor, The Bay Area Video Coalition, CLICK HERE. We need to raise at least $10,000 more to take the film on a Town Hall Tour! We’ve started the wheels churning in Colorado, Texas, New York and Portland but the rising price of transportation, lodging and food require that we raise much more to leave California with the project.
You can also contribute to make this film seen through paypal directly to shaniheckman@gmail.com
90% of the film’s donations have come from individuals like yourself who know that production can’t happen without financial contributions and support.

THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO HELP!

RECOMMEND US, SPREAD THE WORD AND HELP THE FILM BE SEEN:
On Twitter @fosteryouthfilm
On Facebook @fosteryouthfilm
Our website: www.mostunwantedfilm.org
SHARE OUR TRAILER ‘homophobia in foster care’

Happy Pride Month!
Shani Heckman, film director America’s Most Unwanted