By Pamela Collett | Communications and Trustee
Greetings from Hot Sun Foundation!
Below is a very different project update. Our reports usually profile one of our trainees or interns. We encourage people to tell their own stories about what filmmaking training at Hot Sun Foundation has meant to them.
Numbers don't tell stories, people do. But numbers might be of interest.
So below is a summary of 2014 by the numbers.
Remember us in your year-end donations!
Our major grant ends this year.
Keeping our doors open to providing filmmaking to urban slum youth in East Africa depends on your support!
Thanks for all you do!
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Hot Sun Foundation: 2014 Annual Report
SUMMARY by the numbers as of 28 December 2014
Number youth trained Foundation in Filmmaking: 18 Advanced Film Production Project Interviewed 60 Semi finalists 16 (received 2 months hands-on training) Finalists: crew: 10 (received 2 months hands-on training and crew for 1 month filming on location in Nanyuki and other locations in Kenya) Number working on Advanced Film Production Project Advanced Film Production Crew: 10 Actors (excluding extras): 12 Production heads, assistants: 8 Logistics: 2 Number of Social Networking interns: 4 Number of graduates employed in Kenya media industry: 65 Number of short films produced : 12Documentary co-produced with Influence Films: Destruction for Survival Number of film festivals entered : 8Number of film festival awards: 1 plus 1 finalist Number of videos on vimeo : 25 https://vimeo.com/hotsunfoundationNumber of testimonials by former graduates on vimeo: 2 https://vimeo.com/user35354184 Number of workshops: 4 1 video training for community groups, 1 on organizing film festivals , 1 introduction to Red Epic camera, 1 Two day workshop on documentary filmmaking Number of partners: 6Africalia (Belgium) Tropfest (Australia) Interfilm (Berlin) Carolina for Kibera, Creatives Garage, Influence Films Number of community screenings in Nairobi: 4 in Kibera, 1 in MathareEstimated number that attended community screenings: 10,000 Number of special events: 3 2 graduations (1 co-sponsored by Kenya Film Commission at National Theatre of Kenya 1 event with Heinz Herrmans, Interfilm (Berlin) : Art of Short Film (at Creatives Garage) Number of Focus on Film newsletters : 28Number of subscribers to Focus on Film newsletter: 498 Number of followers on twitter: 2,992 Number of Facebook pages: 2 https://www.facebook.com/hotsunfilmschool https://www.facebook.com/hotsunadvfilm2014 Number of Facebook “Likes”: 2,236 Number of Project Reports on Global Giving (http://www.goto.gg/3632) : 13Number of donations on Global Giving: 65Happy New Year and thanks again for thinking of us and supportingfilmmaking training to talented youth in East Africa!Links:
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