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WHY BECOME A MADCAT SPONSOR?
The MadCat Film Festival is the only women's film festival in San Francisco and it is the longest running women's film festival in the Bay Area. Festival Sponsors have a unique opportunity to reach female audiences while showing support for a socially responsible cause. MadCat also gives sponsors a chance to reach audiences outside of the Bay Area, via MadCat's Tour, which travels to over 25 universities, art houses, and museums nationally. Sponsoring MadCat will give your business a direct link to audiences that typically consist of diverse, hip, educated and socially-conscious women from ages of 18 to 40.
WHAT IS THE MADCAT WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL?
Founded in 1996, the MadCat Women's International Film Festival exhibits visionary films and videos by women to large national audiences. MadCat not only broadens the public's exposure to the arts, but also to significant works by women directors who frequently find themselves at the margins (or left out completely) of other festivals. By creating a dedicated exhibition venue for women the MadCat Film Festival and Tour increases opportunity and visibility for women and girls in the arts.
For more about MadCat's mission click here.
MadCat was selected as one of the "101 Reasons Why We love San Francisco" - San Francisco Chronicle
THE FESTIVAL:
MadCat's annual festival takes place throughout September at select Bay Area locations.
THE TOUR:
Each Winter and Spring, MadCat tours with a selection from the Festival to over 25 universities, museums, arts organizations and theatres throughout the US.
SPONSORSHIP BENEFITS
MadCat offers a range of sponsorship levels from $250 to $7,500. There are opportunities for vast exposure to untapped markets with a MadCat Sponsorship.
 Exposure in print! Your logo or business name in: ads in local papers, MadCat programs, direct mail programs and postcards.
Exposure at screenings! Your logo or business name on slides before MadCat screenings and Banner Placement at the venues.
Sponsor a specific MadCat Film or screening! Gain access to specific MadCat audiences.
Verbal Acknowledgement and Thanks before screenings!
Free Tickets!
Web Site Presence! Your business Logo or name on the official 2003 MadCat web site.
Access! to local and/or national audiences that are young, hip and often hard to gain access to.
Click here to see specific Sponsorship Levels.
MADCAT'S REACH
MadCat's aims to give women film and videomakers vast exposure to a wide range of Bay Area and national audiences.
Through key logo placement in promotional materials, the web site and ads your business reaches over 600,000 customers with a MadCat sponsorship!
MadCat receives over 700 submissions annually and screens the work of between 50 to 70 filmmakers. Approximately 5,000 audience members attend the Festival annually with this number increasing each year with the expansion of the Bay Area Festival and the MadCat Tour.
MADCAT'S GROWTH
festival took place at a single venue in San Francisco. Today, MadCat screens at three locations in the Bay Area and over twenty venues nationally. MadCat reaches a wide range of audiences by maintaining different venues for the Bay Area Festival: Pacific Film Archive (PFA) in Berkeley, Artists Television Access (ATA) and El Rio in SF. The Festival added 4 screenings last year to accommodate audience overflow and sold out each screening at El Rio.
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THE FESTIVAL VENUES
As part of UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Art Museum, the Pacific Film Archive attracts a range of academics, students and Berkeley community members.
ATA is an independent screening venue and arts organization that provides services and resources to local filmmakers.
El Rio is MadCat's outdoor venue - this space allows audience members the rare opportunity to see films under the stars and often attracts many locals from the Mission District who would not normally go to a film festival.
THE TOUR VENUES
Alverno College - Milwaukee, WI; Columbia College - Chicago, IL; Duke University - Durham, NC; CUNY Brooklyn - Brooklyn, NY; Hampshire College - Amherst, MA; Harn Museum of Art - Gainesville, FL; Ithaca College - Ithaca NY; Maryland Inst. Of Creative Arts - Baltimore, MD; MASS College of Art - Boston, MA; Mills College - Oakland, CA; NC School of the Arts - Winston-Salem, NC; Prince Theatre - Philadelphia, PA; Squeaky Wheel - Buffalo, NY; Stetson University, DeLand - FL; University of Buffalo - Buffalo, NY; University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM; University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI, Women in the Directors Chair - Chicago, IL and the list continues.
A SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY OF FILM
MadCat is based in San Francisco, a city respected internationally for its tolerance and diversity, as well as for its sophisticated and enthusiastic film audiences. These viewers have helped maintain a variety of film series and festivals such as the SF Int'l Festival, the Lesbian and Gay Festival, the Asian American Festival and the Jewish Festival. Of all the arts organization in San Francisco that support underrepresented groups, MadCat is the only venue dedicated exclusively to women's visions. One of MadCat's primary goals since it's inception has been to fill this programming void. MadCat is also the only Bay Area festival that concentrates all of its programming on high quality thematically curated series of films. This unique and innovative take on programming is an essential voice in both the local film scene and the international film world.
A UNIQUE LOOK AT THE CURATORIAL PROCESS
MadCat is the premiere venue for women in the Bay Area and the only experimental women's film festival in the United States. MadCat has established a strong reputation for programming series of acute and insightful films audiences would be hard pressed to find anywhere else. MadCat's unique programming angle targets audiences that are often difficult to tap into. MadCat aims to broaden the notion of traditional "women's issues" by programming films about a range of topics including but not limited to stories that chronicle women's lives. The Festival entices a range of audience members including: professionals, students, general movies-goers and young urban youth around the country.
PRAISE FOR MADCAT
MadCat has become a significant, widely-respected, successful fixture on both the international film festival circuit as well as the local Bay Area art scene. The Festival has been recognized by media and arts organizations nationally for its work in broadening and deepening audience appreciation of and access to innovative works. Here's what some of the press has to say about MadCat.
MadCat was awarded a "BEST of the BAY" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Refreshingly unique" Film/Tape World.
"Thank our lucky stars that we live in San Francisco-home of the MadCat Film Festival. It is chock-a-block with provocative and artistic films and videos made by women."
San Francisco Reader read the article
"MadCat isn't just a women's film festival - it's an arty showcase of avant-garde experimental shorts that veer far from the traditional modes of storytelling."
Seattle Weekly
Read more Press clippings.
For more information about becoming a MadCat Sponsor or Ad rates for the Festival program please
email sponsor@madcatfilmfestival.org
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