Anonymous Donor Awards $25,000 Matching Grant Challenge
Our documentary project received a challenge grant from a major anonymous donor who has promised to award $25,000 when the project raises an equal sum. Thanks to the generous support of others, we have raised $15,000 toward our goal. We are honored to have their trust in the power of our work to inspire positive social change.
We still need your help to meet the challenge. Donors can double their contributions when they donate to our fiscal sponsor, Center for Independent Documentary toward the completion of "Something in the Water" this fall.
"Something in the Water" chronicles a critical time in America's history between October 2020 and April 2021. It raises important political and social issues that promote a better informed citizenry and tells the story about the state of our nation from many spectrums of ideological thinking, ages, and backgrounds. This much needed film is on point about topics that impact the health of our country, the preservation of our democracy, and fosters dialogue around deeply complex social issues that impact all Americans.
Your support is appreciated. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jeri Wachter and Joseph C. Stillman,
Producers, "Something in the Water" documentary
Thanks to the project's supporters, we have raised $15,000 for the Center for Independent Documentary to help us meet our matching grant challenge.
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Something is definitely in the water in America!
Amid a contentious election, a pandemic, and an economic downturn, Americans across our land have many concerns. From economic challenges, to political polarization, racial inequities, to healthcare hurdles, across ages, people are angry, hopeful, sad, feel betrayed, are depressed, optimistic, concerned, hurting, feel despair, and all of the above. Depending of course on what their individual and family situations and connection to history are, their viewpoints represent tremendous diversity, which is as we found, the great American experience. When we began this project, we had hoped to connect people by capturing this moment in our country’s history. While we had no pre-conceived ideas as to what people would say, we soon discovered, people were more than generous in expressing their thoughts on many subjects.
These sentiments mirrored the shared experiences that citizens, regardless of where they live, are feeling all across our land. As filmmakers, we were constantly surprised at their insight which was so thoughtful and deeply moving to us. The people we spoke to, the subjects they talked about, and the stories they relayed to us, reaffirmed what we had suspected before we began this project.
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Joseph and Jeri in Las Cruces, New Mexico in March 2021.