Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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The goal will be to make the film available to all the incredible organizations and groups across the country that are building a ground game to assure that mifepristone remains accessible and that every American knows it is a safe and effective abortion option. We urgently want to partner with local organizations both to get the word out and to learn from them how THEY can use the film. Right now our focus is making the film available at low-cost or no cost to educational and non-profit groups. We especially want it to be seen in the hard to reach places – the places where books are being banned and teachers are censored but, so far, films haven’t been touched. It’s only a matter of time – so for PLAN C to have its greatest impact, the time is now.
By exceeding our original goal, we can keep the momentum going and bring PLAN C to many more places. We can cover the costs of venue rental and the preparation of detailed and reviewed screening guides tailored with specific action plans for key audiences: college and university campuses; medical schools and schools of public health; human rights and abortion activists; lawyers and state lawmakers. With funding, we can cover the costs of shipping physical copies of the film and the costs of using a streaming platform such as Kinema or Eventive, and we can continue to absorb travel costs for film participants and filmmakers to participate in person on panels and Q&A’s. We want to be able to engage impact strategists to amplify our efforts in replicable and meaningful ways. While some have kindly offered to provide services on a pro-bono or deferred fee basis and we will take advantage of that generosity as much as possible, there are inevitably hard costs for events.
One more thing: we are excited to announce that we are in the planning stages of a “Day of Action.” We can share specifics about that very soon. Stay tuned – and meanwhile, please continue to spread the word about #PlanCMovie.
Access to the abortion pill, which safely and effectively ends a pregnancy up to 12 weeks, has never been more threatened, directly impacting the lives and rights of people all over America.
In spite of being approved by the FDA more than two decades ago and being used in half of all abortions in the United States, misinformation about abortion medication is rampant and, in some states, access is largely withheld.
Our urgent, timely documentary PLAN C had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival amidst the ongoing public health emergency post-Roe v. Wade.
Our film follows Francine Coeytaux, a public health expert and the co-founder of the organization Plan C, as she and her team fight to expand knowledge of – and access to – the abortion pill across the United States. The film reveals the grassroots network and pipelines Plan C built, the criticism they faced, and the hope they have for the future.
We are choosing to listen to our enthusiastic audiences clamoring to share this film with their communities. We are taking a page out of the playbook of the heroic activists in our film, acting fast to meet the moment, not waiting for permission.
The time is NOW to take our film on the road, putting it in the hands of capable, energized activists on the front lines.
We want PLAN C to be available as a tool for non-profits and organizers – to screen on college campuses and medical schools. We want to say “yes!” to requests to hold private screenings in cities and rural communities alike.
So, what’s next?
Your support will make the film available to those who want and need to see it most.
As of May 4th, this project has raised $45,000 of their $50,000 goal. This project has 15 days left to raise the $50,000 or it will not be funded. For a pledge of $25, you will get a streaming link to the festival cut film. For a pledge of $50, you will get a streaming link to the final movie cut. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plancfilm/plan-c?
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