Dear fellow filmmakers, parents or guardians, grown-up kids and potential donors...
Throughout the About 8½ pages of this site, you can see why we have embarked on this project; what our values and passions are and how much we think 8½ is the perfect age to fall in love with cinema.
We are working with a brilliant grant from Creative Scotland’s National Lottery Inspire Fund, and topping it up with our own money. Companies and organisations like Optimum Releasing, the BFI, Celluloid Dreams, ITV, Network DVD, Soda Pictures and Universal have given us such good deals on the films we are giving away through the hubs that they are de facto sponsors, too.
We’ve already been approached by people outside Scotland who like our idea and might want to extend it. We’re delighted at this.
But our funding is tight, and lasts for just two years. If you are a Hollywood studio, a filmmaker, a distributor, a broadcaster, or another foundation, and you like this project, we’d love to see if there’s any way you can help us. You could donate DVDs; provide free subtitling into English or other languages; give us editing time in your post-production suite or make a financial donation as a tax write-off. Or just write an email of support. Or recommend a great film that we’ve overlooked.
We welcome your suggestions, offers of help and messages of support: hello@eightandahalf.org
