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• Why Your Sponsorship Matters
• Our Current Sponsors
• Our Future
• Your Sponsorship
Why Your Sponsorship Matters
Our Mission
CINE’s mission is to serve emerging and established film, video and new
media professionals as their primary career-advancing peer group.
CINE honors a wide range of talent worldwide through its prestigious
CINE Golden Eagle Awards, and provides ongoing opportunities
for education, exposure, networking and resources.
Our Past
CINE was founded in 1957 by a consortium representing business,
education and the government to depict American life and thought
for a global audience through the distribution of the best
American documentary films to overseas film festivals. We are
one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious film, video
and media arts non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations.
The CINE Golden Eagle Award
CINE is renowned for the Golden Eagle Awards it presents for
excellence in film and video production. Golden Eagle recipients
are chosen through CINE’s semi-annual Golden Eagle Film & Video
Competition, held each Spring and Fall. These competitions
involve hundreds of volunteer media and content specialists
who judge nearly 1,000 entries yearly in several moving-image
genres for professional, independent and student filmmakers.
Our Distinguished Alumni
CINE has an excellent track record for early recognition of talent.
Many renowned filmmakers and journalists are CINE Golden Eagle
Award-winners, and for several of them, the Golden Eagle was
their first major award. For countless filmmakers, the CINE
Golden Eagle has provided entrée into the film and television
industry and further advanced the careers of established professionals.
Notable Golden Eagle Award-winning filmmakers include Steven
Spielberg, Ken Burns, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Robert Altman,
John Lasseter, George Lucas, Mike Nichols, Robert Zemeckis, Mel
Brooks, Spike Lee, Albert Maysles, Mira Nair, Sydney Pollack,
John Frankenheimer, Frederick Wiseman, Stanley Nelson, Jim Henson,
David Mamet, Julie Taymor, Edward Zwick and Charles
Guggenheim. Many prominent television producers have
also won Golden Eagle Awards, including Matt Groening
(The Simpsons), Mark Burnett (Survivor), David
Chase (The Sopranos), Fred Rogers (Mister
Rogers’ Neighborhood) and Sheila
Nevins (HBO Documentaries). Many distinguished journalists
including Walter Cronkite, Diane Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour,
Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Sam
Donaldson, Judy Woodruff, Bill Moyers, Charles Gibson, Meredith
Vieira and Brian Williams have been
the recipients of CINE Golden Eagle Awards, as well.
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Our Current Sponsors
CINE has always been fortunate to partner with organizations
that value CINE’s mission of serving emerging and established
film, video and new media professionals. We are extremely grateful
for the generous support of our current sponsors.
CINE offers unique partnership opportunities for sponsoring
organizations. In addition to CINE’s existing programs, we often
tailor programs to best fit the needs and ideals of partnering
organizations.
- History provided an extremely generous financial
donation that allowed CINE to hold the 2008 Awards Gala at
the Newseum.
- Longtime CINE sponsor Henninger Media Services presented
the Henninger Media Services Grant, a grant for post-production
services. Awarded for the first time at the 2008 CINE Awards
Gala, these grants will next be presented to the 2009 recipient
of the CINE Masters Series Award in the Independent Division
and the runner-up in that division. Henninger Media Services
also made a financial contribution to CINE.
- The Chubb Group of Insurers presented the
inaugural Chubb/CINE Student Scholarship, which included a
monetary award and a rights clearance grant from the Chubb
Group of Insurers, as well as a financial donation to CINE’s
programs and the implementation of the Chubb/CINE Student Scholarship.
- Discovery Communications provided facilities,
personnel and resources that immeasurably aided CINE in the
execution of the 2008 Awards Gala and CINE’s programs and competitions.
- CNN presented CINE with a generous contribution
towards our programs and the 2008 Awards Gala.
- A film stock grant was bestowed by Kodak upon
the Award of Excellence winner in the Student Division at the
Awards Gala in 2008. This award will again be presented at
the 2009 Awards Gala. Kodak was one of CINE’s founding sponsors
over fifty years ago, and continues to support CINE with financial
donations and grants for student winners.
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Our Future
The CINE Golden Eagle Film & Video Competition
Over the past fifty years, CINE has constantly evolved to best
serve those working in film, television and video production.
In the Spring of 2008, we launched the Professional New Media
Division, featuring content created specifically for the web
and mobile devices. We received some exceptional programs in
this division, and for the first time, producers of new media
content received Golden Eagle Awards for excellence in production,
just like their counterparts in the world of film and television.
The CINE Student Advisory Board
In an effort to stay attuned to the needs of emerging student
filmmakers, CINE created the Student Advisory Board in the Spring
of 2008. Faculty members from premier film and television programs
from around the country will advise CINE of trends in a variety
of fields relating to student filmmakers. The CINE Student Advisory
Board currently includes faculty members from American University,
University of Texas at Austin, University of North Texas and
the University of Miami, and more educators are joining us all
the time.
CINE Programs
CINEfs Online Master Class Series features
audiocasts of conversations with those who have shaped the media,
including legendary filmmakers, journalists and other personalities.
Our inaugural interview with Ken Burns premiered in the November
2007 issue of the CINE Newsletter. In February of 2008, CINE
President Donald Thoms interviewed Dan Glickman, the Chairman
and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America.
CINE’s Online Informational Interviews for Filmmakers provide
media professionals with information to help them navigate the
film and television industry. Recent interviews include Pat Aufderheide,
the Chair of the Center for Social Media at American University
and an expert in fair use practices; The Chubb Group of Insurance
Companies, which provided an overview of insurance issues within
the film and television communities; CINE Jury Chair Bill Simon,
who spoke about what makes an award-winning film; and filmmaker
Steven Fischer, who discussed the making of his CINE Masters
Award-winning film, Freedom Dance.
CINE Salons are elegant evening or afternoon
teas at which invited guests from the film industry have the
opportunity to meet in small settings and hear from an industry
notable on a topic of interest to the community.
CINE Outreach Programs are educational workshops
or panels sponsored by CINE or in which CINE Staff or Board members
participate. Topics may include technical aspects of filmmaking,
historical recreations, legal issues in documentary filmmaking,
fundraising, how to pitch a film, and discussions with foreign
filmmakers.
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Your Sponsorship
Your sponsorship will put you front and center
of CINE’s select constituency of media professionals:
- 12,000 unique visitors to our website in June
- An average of nearly 9,000 unique visitors to CINE’s website
each month in 2008
- An email list of more than 2400 film, television and video
professionals
- More than 250 attendees at our Awards Gala
- And much morec
Your generous support will help fund:
- CINE’s renowned Golden Eagle Awards Competitions
- CINE’s Lifetime Achievement, Leadership and Trailblazer Awards
- CINE Workshops with emerging and established filmmakers
- CINE’s online Master Class Series - conversations with film
industry notables
- CINE Salons
- CINE’s Annual Awards Gala
For more information on becoming a sponsor of CINE, please contact
CINE’s Executive Director, Wendy Revel, at 202-785-1136 or wendyrevel@cine.org.
CINE
1112 16th Street NW, Suite 510
Washington, DC 20036
202.785.1136 (p)
202.785.4114 (f)
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