{"id":68,"date":"2008-02-08T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/2008\/02\/08\/launching-the-granny-power-fundraising-campaign\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T04:48:11","slug":"launching-the-granny-power-fundraising-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/2008\/02\/08\/launching-the-granny-power-fundraising-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Launching the Granny Power fundraising campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Grannies<\/a>
\nRaging Grannies at their last Unconvention. Photo Simon Bujold.<\/em><\/p>\n

For the last three years I have been working on a film about the Raging Grannies<\/strong><\/a>. This film is about a Canadian movement which has become international. It’s about using humour to fight for peace, social justice and the environment. It’s about learning how to grow old and remain an active citizen. It’s about a voice in society for older women.<\/strong> We have a French-language broadcaster but there is little interest among English-language ones. That’s why we – our producers at Island Filmworks<\/strong><\/a> and our team – are launching a private fundraising drive<\/strong>. We want to collect some of the money needed for the film, and we want to build momentum.<\/p>\n

My desire to make a film about the Raging Grannies<\/strong> stems from many years of seeing these wonderful and inspiring women in action, at rallies and demonstrations for peace, environmental protection and social justice. The theme that runs through all my work is that of people standing up for their rights. And whenever there\u2019s a David fighting a Goliath, the Grannies are never far away!<\/strong> I even remember seeing them singing, one of them in a wheelchair, against the background of clouds of teargas at the Quebec City Summit of the Americas.<\/p>\n

Over the last three years I have been privileged to meet and get to know Raging Grannies across Canada and the U.S., including the founding Grannies in Victoria B.C. I filmed their 20th anniversary celebrations (see my previous post on the Victoria Grannies shoot<\/a>), as well as several other events we didn\u2019t want to miss \u2013 the arrest and trial of 20 grannies arrested for their anti-war protests in New York <\/strong>was one of them. It was a little unfortunate that so much of the travel and other expenses had to be charged to our credit cards \u2013 but the footage is in the can, that\u2019s what counts.<\/p>\n

And here is a short video which gives you an idea of what kind of situations you might find in the film:
\n[youtube 8yDj098xCGE]<\/p>\n

I have the privilege of working with some veteran filmmakers <\/strong>who are also good friends on this project, Martin Duckworth, Carole Roy<\/a> <\/strong>and Terre Nash<\/strong> among them. It seems all the conditions are there for making a great film. My personal hope is that we will succeed in doing just what those wonderful Grannies do: use humor, irony and creativity to entertain an audience while making it think about important issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of our main characters, Muriel Duckworth<\/strong><\/a>, is now preparing to celebrate her 99th birthday. The founding Grannies in Victoria are still active but frail as they celebrate the 20th anniversary of the movement. It is high time to make this film. If the broadcasters won\u2019t support us, we\u2019re convinced the public will.<\/p>\n

I am fortunate to have an excellent coordinator for the fundraising campaign, Dijana Lazar. I’ll let her tell you how it is organized:<\/p>\n

We have decided to launch a private on-line fundraising campaign to help finance the Granny Power project<\/a><\/strong>, using an internet fundraising platform called GiveMeaning.Com<\/a><\/p>\n

With the help of a Montreal based NGO called Alternatives<\/a> and our interns from Montreal and Toronto, we are aiming to raise 25000$ to kick start the project and prove we have popular support<\/strong>. We need your help to achieve that!<\/p>\n

You can contribute to this campaign in many ways : by voting for our project<\/strong> (voting process lasts for another week), by supporting it financially (fundraising starts on February 12th and all donations over 5$ are tax deductible), by spreading the word amongst your friends and contacts, by posting a link for our web page on your blog or web site…
\nYour support will be greatly appreciated!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Please visit our web page on GiveMeaning : Granny Power project<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And our web site for the Granny Power film<\/a><\/p>\n

Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raging Grannies at their last Unconvention. Photo Simon Bujold. For the last three years I have been working on a film about the Raging Grannies. This film is about a Canadian movement which has become international. It’s about using humour to fight for peace, social justice and the environment. It’s about learning how to grow … Continue reading Launching the Granny Power fundraising campaign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}