Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival

BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL

FILM FESTIVAL

presents_:

3rd kidsfilmfest

at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum June 3rd and 9th, 2007

BiFF, Inc. 180 S 4 Street - Suite 2 South Brooklyn, New York 11211 p: 718 388 4306 f: 718 599 5039 e: [email protected] www.kidsfilmfest.org www.brooklynfilmfestival.org

kidsfilmfest (KFF), the child within BiFF

What better way to invest in the future? The Brooklyn International Film Festival, now in its 9th year, is proud to announce the 3rd annual kidsfilmfest. KFF is a festival within the festival. BiFF will run June 1-10, 2007, but on Sunday June 3 and Saturday, June 9th, there will be special film programs tailored for children. KFF is also planning a day of fun and festivities for children of all ages at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

The sponsor(s) of KFF will be able to take advantage of BiFF’s ten-year experience in PR, MKT, promotion, programming, and production. BiFF’s film catalog will carry kidsfilmfest’s date and screening times. BiFF’s website, www.brooklynfilmfestival.org, will be linked to KFF’s site: www.kidsfilmfest.org. KFF will print 10,000 postcards, 1,000 film menus, and 200 posters. These materials will be distributed throughout the five boroughs. KFF will also create awareness by reaching out to schools and organizations that focus on children’s needs.

Top ten reasons to partner with KFF

KFF’s past edition was a complete success in terms of attendance (sold out), media response, and positive feedback by both audience and sponsors.

KFF is one of few film festivals in the US fully dedicated to children programming with an international scope.

KFF is staged at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, soon to be one of the largest children’s museums in the US.

KFF is associated with top national and overseas film festivals, organizations, and distribution companies.

KFF partners with major Brooklyn institutions such as the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

KFF is innovative, but accessible and inclusive. And it is one of the best ways out there to reach a specific target audience.

KFF is trendy and very well produced.

KFF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.

KFF is driven by a two-fold mission:  To discover, expose, and promote independent filmmakers that make films for children.  To draw worldwide attention to Brooklyn as a center for cinema.

KFF is a BiFF project. Partnership with KFF will generate benefits for XYZ domestically. Local Exposure_:

• The Festival has been covered by every NY newspaper and magazine, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Village Voice, Time Out NY, Time Out NY Kids, NY Post, Daily News, and NY Press; it has been featured on Fox 5 News, NY1 Cable News, WNET Thirteen (PBS), WNYC TV, and BCAT TV; also on WNYC Radio (NPR) and WBAI Radio; and it has been massively advertised on all the Time Warner Cable TV stations and specialized media outlets such as Filmmaker Magazine, The Independent, MovieMaker, and indiewire.com.

• BiFF has been supported for several years by the New York State Council on the Arts and endorsed by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markovitz, NYC Commissioner of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting Katherine Oliver, and Brooklyn Navy Yard’s President Eric Deutsch.

• The Festival is staged at and partners with the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

• International celebrities such as John Turturro, Mike Nicholls, David Byrne, and Boy George, have been BiFF’s guests and have helped to attract large crowds.

• During the festival, BiFF stages a Drive-in theater in the Museum’s parking lot and provides vehicles for all the moviegoers who don’t have one.

• BiFF showcases “Best of Fest” on a monthly basis, from March through June, in partnership with the Brooklyn Museum’s “First Saturday” (a very successful event that attracts 6,000 to 10,000 visitors each time).

• Throughout the year, BiFF also organizes several networking parties and film showcases in the most-trendy-of-the-year, Brooklyn and Manhattan, venues.

• Each year, BiFF prints 8,000 film catalogues (140 pages), 2,000 posters, 5,000 film menus, and 100,000 postcards.

• BiFF’s local advertisers are our most dedicated promoters. This network distributes and displays our catalogues, posters, and postcards throughout NYC.

• Each year, BiFF produces a 30-second TV commercial that airs over 700 times on all the Time Warner Cable stations and a high budget 90-second trailer, which is shown at the festival on 35mm film before each program (33 times total).

• BiFF’s audience is a dynamic mix of New York artists, media representatives, film distributors, the five boroughs’ film enthusiasts, and the international filmmakers. They are Independent, demanding, smart, hip, confident, open-minded, receptive, social, laid back, communicative, well-rounded and well traveled, inventive, in no rush, but always looking for the next “thing”, sexy, curious, mostly singles, and definitely aware of the new trends.

Partnership with KFF will generate benefits for XYZ internationally. International Exposure_:

• BiFF has been covered by TV networks, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, and web-based media outlets on every continent.

• For the 2006 festival, kidsfilmfest received over ???? film entries from ???? countries.

• BiFF’s website, www.brooklynfilmfestival.org, counts an average of 6,500 unique visitors per week. 70% is US traffic, 20% is European.

• KFF’s sponsors include: Con Edison, HealthPlus, KidRobot, Baby Phat, Channel Thirteen, 4Kids Entertainment Network and The Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

• BiFF manages an email list of 25,000 people, which includes distributors, celebrities, and professionals.

• The entire 2006 festival will be broadcast live over the Internet at www.brooklynfilmfestival.org, and international awareness will be established via our office through embassies and consulates of the participating countries.

• International companies and companies with international interests have been supporting BiFF’s efforts throughout the years. And while some of them have capitalized in full upon one edition as Title Sponsors (i.e. Campari, Stella Artois), BiFF mainly aims at long-term relationships. Growing with BiFF means building a relationship with the trend-setting NY crowd, making the difference through a vibrant cause with worldwide ramifications, and being able to identify future trends. BiFF’s family of sponsors include: Budweiser, Red Bull, Starbucks, Fiji Water, Time Warner Cable, WNYC Radio (NPR), JP Morgan Chase, Steiner Studios, Hotel Chandler, Panavision, Technicolor, Kodak, Avid, Lowel Light, and B&H. They are BiFF’s most enthusiastic references.

KFF’s Buzz_:

• One of few international film festivals for children in the US • Next-generation of filmmakers, film premieres, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum • Showcases at the Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Lyceum Theatre • Receptive, captured audience • Community goodwill Title Sponsorship • XYZ name becomes part of kidsfilmfest Title: - “XYZ presents the 3rd kidsfilmfest” • XYZ logo featured in Festival’s print ads placed in NY newspapers and magazines • XYZ featured as the Official Title Sponsor in press release • XYZ logo featured on Festival’s website (kidsfilmfest.org) • XYZ ad in BiFF’s Film catalog (1 full page – B&W) • XYZ logo featured on both BiFF and KFF’s posters • XYZ logo featured on kidsfilmfest’s postcard • XYZ logo featured on kidsfilmfest’s film menu • XYZ logo included in BiFF’s film trailer to be projected before every film program (Jun 1-10 / 33 times) • XYZ logo included in KFF’s film trailer to be projected four times during the film program (Jun 3 and 9) • Signage at Festival • Sampling opportunity at Festival • XYZ slide to be projected during program intermissions at Festival • Prize opportunity (award to winning filmmaker) • Display opportunity (booth/table in highly visible area of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum) • 10 Daily passes (valued at $30 each) for your executives and guests • Exclusivity in the category

Total Cost = $20,000

Presenting Sponsorship • XYZ logo featured in Festival’s print ads placed in NY newspapers and magazines • XYZ logo featured on Festival’s website (kidsfilmfest.org) • XYZ logo featured on KFF’s poster • XYZ logo featured on KFF’s postcard • XYZ logo featured on KFF’s film menu • Signage at Festival • Sampling opportunity at Festival • Prize opportunity (award to winning filmmaker) • Display opportunity (booth/table in highly visible area of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum) • 5 Daily passes (valued at $30 each) for your executives and guests • Exclusivity in category

Total Cost = $5,000 Official Supplier • XYZ logo featured on Festival’s website (kidsfilmfest.org) • Sampling opportunity at Festival • Display opportunity (booth/table in highly visible area of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum) • 2 Daily passes (valued at $30 each) for your executives and guests

Total Cost = TBD (cash, services, product) KFF’s Outreach & Demographics_:

2006 Attendance Festival and Carnival (Jun 4, 2006) = 1,500 KFF’s Best of Fest in various venues (Jan - Dec) = 500

2005 kidsfilmfest.org Traffic Pages Viewed / yearly = 190,000 Pages Viewed / weekly = 3,500 Unique Visitors / weekly = 500

2006 Promotional Materials Postcards = 10,000 Tickets / Badges = 500 Film Menus = 1,000 Posters = 200 T-shirts = 200

2006 Estimated Attendance Festival and Carnival (Jun 4) = 1,500 KFF’s Best of Fest in various venues (Jan - Dec) = 1,000 BiFF Fan’s Quotes_:

“Brava to you! A complete triumph! All my guests were blown away by the quality of all the films. My mom -- who is highly critical and is now an expert in kidfilms, as I've dragged her to so many festivals -- said it was the highest quality festival ever. HUGE kudos to you.” Eva Saks, Sesame Street/Children’s Filmmaker

“I was impressed by the turnout and the publicity you attracted, especially for a first year effort. I had a good time and left looking forward to next year's edition.” Eric Weil, Producer, Sesame Street Workshop

“The Brooklyn International Film Festival has added a new dimension to Brooklyn.” Marty Markovitz, Brooklyn Borough President "Great films, great parties, great festival. An integral part of the Brooklyn art scene." Douglas Steiner - Steiner Equities “Being from Brooklyn and making my living in film for the past decade or so, I would love to help out and be involved in the coming years. It's very exciting.” Annabella Sciorra, Actress “Since the BIFF’s screening of my film wonderful things have happened to me. I have been invited to the Belgium Film Festival, the Turin Film Festival, and an opening at The Quad Cinema. It has been a pleasure to participate and know BiFF.” Gary Keys, Filmmaker - “Duke Ellington, Memories of Duke”.

“Each year, the Festival got bigger and better known. Now, it hit the big time. The fest moved to the prestigious Brooklyn Museum of Art and landed high-profile movies.” Vincent Musetto, Film Editor - New York Post "Without screening at BIFF, we wouldn't have received a theatrical release. It was a great honor to show at the Festival the New York Premiere of my movie. Throughout the whole process everyone has shown what a class act they are - and I hope in the future I might be lucky enough to get my next film into your fest. Paul Hough, Film Director - “The Backyard”.

“I was thrilled to hear that I have won the Spirit Award! All the best!” Mike Figgis, Film Director Premiering at BIFF was great for our film. Our screening was packed and generated great reviews. It opened the doors to a series of other festivals and the film ended up being picked up by 7th Art Releasing and is out on DVD through Image Entertainment. Sergio Goes, Film Director - “Black Picket Fence”. "JP Morgan Chase is proud to be one of the oldest sponsors of the BiFF which attracts truly positive attention to Brooklyn's artists and to Brooklyn as a whole." Seth Edwards, VP Community Relations - JP Morgan Chase “Damn, I’m overdressed” John Turturro, Actor Director