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What Local Contacts Can Do To Help

 

Help us find our screening venue. Suggest a good place to set up our portable theater. Better: give us a referral to the right person to call and their contact info. Best: make the call for us!

 
Help us sell concessions. Nonprofit groups like school clubs, Boy Scouts, church groups or other groups with missions of supporting families and children can bring the popcorn, cookies, soda and candy and KEEP ALL THE PROCEEDS. Let's make this a fun movie experience for everyone and make you some money at the same time.

 
Sell tickets. If there is an interested nonprofit group, we'd love to explore how you could sell tickets before we arrive and your group could keep a portion of the sales. Yes, this is a fundraising tour for us, but if we can make some money and leave some money behind in the community where it will do good things, it's a win-win for everyone.

 
Advise us on ticket prices. $10 for adults, less for kids, with a portion going to a local nonprofit who helps us sell tickets? $5 for everyone at the door? Free for everyone with donations accepted at the end of the screening? Only you know what will work in your community. We made a film, it's won awards and moved many people, we're spending more money to bring the movie experience AND our producer to you, BUT the important question is "What works for folks where you live?" We'd rather have a packed audience for free than an empty one at $10 a head. What's your take? Contact us.

 
Do local marketing. If you or your group are interested in hanging posters, contacting local media or connecting us with them, contacting local bloggers about our story, getting us into local newsletters and calendars, or any other way of getting the word out in your town, let us know. Sponsors who want to send out postcards to townspeople or contribute funds to marketing, see below.

 
Start a conversation. You don't even have to contact us for this one. Just start asking friends, neighbors, anyone in town if they've heard about the film and what they think. You don't have to sell the film, just try to find out what people have heard and what the reaction is.
If you have time, drop us a line and let us know or join our Facebook or Yahoo groups and post there. Or teach Will to Tweet! He's got a Twitter account (@wsroulston) but he hasn't even used it yet.
 
And if you've been to your town's page, you know you can give us a thumbs-up and also leave comments. Do it!

 
Connect us with like-minded people. We would love to talk with counselors, social workers, pastors/rabbis, government officials, Rotary/Lions/Veterans/Scouts... any leaders in the community who cares about strengthening families. Many viewers have already told us that DreamRiders has inspired them to go the distance for love. We'd love to start conversations in your communities about second chances, healing relationships, following your dreams and next-generation fathering. Help us learn to present our message better and keep the conversation going long after the screening is a distant memory.
 
Bike stores, outdoor recreation businesses and groups and recreation therapists: we want to meet them too and let them spread the word about a film that uses their passions to change lives.

 
Set up speaking gigs. As laid out in the paragraph above, Will has a lot he can talk about to inspire your community and bring more people out to the screening. More info on our How You Can Meet Us page.

 
Provide meals or lodging. Will would love to share his experiences with you as a first-time filmmaker, a man who got a do-over in life, and the lessons learned from all the above while sharing a meal or staying in your home. This will reduce our costs and build the kind of community we value. Details can be found on our How You Can Meet Us page.

 
Help set up the event. Every venue will be different, but if there are chairs to set up or floors to sweep, we'd love the company.

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