Email to other film festivals

[Kenneth Teh]

Dear _____,

We are students from the UCLA Social Enterprise Academy. The goal of the academy is to produce an effective business plan that generates profits for a nonprofit partner. We are now working with Public Interest Pictures (PIP) to produce a 48-hour film festival. 

The film festival is a two day competition where experienced filmmakers are asked to come together, but instead of having a writer develop a script, filmmakers are paired with Los Angeles nonprofits to create fun, engaging videos that inspire and raise awareness for some amazing causes. 

The film festival is similar to your own, but instead of having an interesting short film at the end of it, nonprofits come away with a commercial or vision video. We think that this will complement, not compete with, your event. By introducing filmmakers and the audience to the 48-hour film concept, we expect this to have knock-on effects that will benefit your organization. 

After a successful run of the Non-Profit Film Festival in 2012, Public Interest Pictures (PIP) is planning a new and improved version this year. Instead of just focusing on nonprofits and filmmakers, we are considering incorporating an inexpensive shadow program for students, actors and actresses who are interested in filmmaking to participate in the festival. They will have a chance to learn and work with experienced filmmakers to create videos for nonprofits, which they can add to their portfolios. We are also looking to link up with exhibitors for nonprofit services from legal and accounting firms. Also, we are screening a documentary to draw a wider audience as an added revenue source -- and provide more incentive for the exhibitors and advertisers to participate.  

We would like to take this opportunity to reach out to you for advice. Specifically, the key information we were hoping to obtain from you was with regard to sponsorships and marketing. Although we organized a festival last year, our sponsorships were limited to simple things like beverages and locations. Could you help us by explaining the role of your sponsors, and perhaps link us up with them? Also, our reach was not as extensive as we had hoped. How did you manage to reach your target audiences? 

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. We would be very grateful if you could offer us your help with making this event a success, and hopefully making an impact in the world!

Best Regards,
Brian Wang, Willow Drazen, Kenneth Teh, Jacqueline Sy

[Ana Peña]

Hi Guys, 

This looks good! I highly recommend making it shorter though! It's really long right now and hard for people to read through the whole thing. I would take out the paragraph in between the two bold paragraphs. I don't think you need it there for this email. 

Also - watch the formatting in the first couple of paragraphs. Just make sure to keep it consistent! 

Good luck!! These are looking really good! 

Ana Peña

UCLA Anderson MBA Class of 2013
ana.pe...@anderson.ucla.edu

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