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I recently got an email from my friend Cindy about a project she is creating that I think will have a great positive impact on independent filmmakers.

It’s doing really well, and I believe this is the final round, so they’re really close!

Please take 60 seconds and vote.

Thanks!

Leslie
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Dear Friends of PATRON OF THE ARTS,

As most of you know, I’m co-founding a non-profit company (called Patron of the Arts) that’s mission is to help filmmakers fund their films (wooo!!!), and in the FINAL ROUND of a competition to win a $10,000 business grant! We’re currently in SECOND place, and falling behind quickly. The competition is FIERCE and I need the table to come to the rescue! Please help!! If every member of the table were to take just 60 seconds to vote, it would make a HUGE difference. I swear it is super fast, free and easy. This company will help filmmakers everywhere. Please help me win this grant to be able to start this non-profit for all of us! YOUR VOTE and support will make a HUGE difference. Thank you so much for your support.
This company will help everyone!!
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PLEASE TAKE 60 SECONDS
TO HELP US WIN A $10,000 GRANT
THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

Cindy and Jenn are founding a non-profit company called “Patron of the Arts” that’s mission is to help filmmakers fund films! To win they need your help ASAP! (They need the most votes before June 30th). The competition is TOUGH and they are falling behind. Voting is fast (takes only a minute), fun and free. A win for POTA is a win for filmmakers everywhere!

Here’s how to help:

1. VOTE: Please take 30 seconds to vote for our program: Goto the link and vote ASAP (but no later than June 30th at 10pm): http://ideablob.com/ideas/2412-PatronOfTheArts-Sponsor-a-Film and vote! If you already voted for us, simply hit the green “VOTE” button, and login. It will take 2 seconds, and you’re done!! If you have not voted yet, it will take 30 seconds to register first. Just go to the same link, and hit the vote button. Then it will ask you to register. It will send you a confirmation email, and then just goback to our link and click the green “vote” button one more time. THAT’S IT!! REALLY FAST! (feel free to leave us a comment if you want!)

2. SPREAD THE WORD: Please send this email to at least five people who you think would be willing to spend a minute to vote for this non-profit film funding company. We need support urgently to make this happen! Help us create a company to help you!!

3. CONNECT WITH US: Drop us an email to let us know you voted! And if you are a filmmaker who may be interested in participating in our film financing program, please send an email to filmmakers@PatronOfTheArts.org. We hope to launch in 2-3 months, and will be looking for filmmakers who need funding to participate in this program!or just to tell us you voted so we can be sure to invite you to the celebration if we win.

4. PARTY AND FUN: Check this out! If we win the grant, they throw us a big party, and present POTA with one of those GIGANTIC 6-foot tall checks that you see in the lottery!! Ha! EVERYONE at the Table will be invited to the party, along with all of the other Filmmaking Organizations in town who have been supporting us too! So let’s win this grant! And then let’s celebrate! And THEN, lets use this new company to finance our films!!!

Thanks so much for everyone’s support!

With Gratitude,

Cindy Baer,
Co-Founder
Patron of the Arts

Cindy Baer
Director/Producer
Free Dream Pictures
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046337
www.freedreampictures.com

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Lately I have been working a lot on a website. In fact, today I’ve put in a lot of time with the hosting company’s technical service. And I’ve also been looking into online mailing list software.

The names of these two companies would jump out at me each time I visited.

With DaDa (mail list) it made sense… Dada is pretty distinct (and fun to say).

But with GoDaddy, which I’ve had for over a year, I was wondering why I kept being drawn to the name.

And then it hit me: Father’s Day.

I don’t tend to think about that day too much because my dad passed away long ago. I usually mentally wish my father well as the day approaches and think about how grateful I am to have such a great dad (great parents, actually) and then move on before I start to get sad.

Maybe it was simply my subconscious mind that was focusing on those words because I new Father’s Day was coming up, but I like to think this is my Dad’s way of saying “Hi!”

He always was quite a word-smith, with a dry sense of humor and a robust user of the English language.

This happened last year, too…

Last year, ON Father’s Day, a friend of mine gave me a collectible coin set because she was getting rid of stuff and she felt I was the right person to give it to. I do not collect coins and I’ve never conversed about anything related to this topic with my friend. However, MY FATHER had a huge coin collection. We has just finished discussing Father’s Day when she said, “I have something for you.” I unwrapped it (yes, she even wrapped it) and I made the connection immediately.

I was so, so touched.

Perhaps I read too much into it, but it’s nice to grasp on to those little coincidences, whether or not they really mean anything.

So Happy Father’s Day, Dad! (Or should I say “Dada” Day?)

And Happy Father’s Day to all dads!

…And thanks for reminding me.