We have a revolutionary idea for a viewer-based funding organization. Our members pay modest annual dues, part of which will be used to fund the site, but most of which they will use as what we call "dollar votes".
Documentarians will post proposals on the site; members will read the proposals and view any trailer media the producers have created. They will vote to grant the project any number of "dollar votes" they have available. After a pre-established period of time CAM will write a check to the media proposer for the total "dollar votes" that members have democratically elected to give as a no strings attached developmental grant.
Our model of financing independent documentaries differs from many organizations in that nothing stands between documentary creators and their interested audience. There are no boards of directors, or grant committees, or commissioning editors or acquisitions executives. If you have project in the works at any stage of production we want to hear about it. We also ask you to pass our contact information onto any filmmakers in your network who might be interested in posting a project.
We live in interesting times. Funding for progressive media has never been so tight. Though the power of consolidated corporate media is still undiminished, there is some hope of openness to change in our new political leadership.
This optimism coupled with the succesess of a few big name documentarians in the last few years, leads us at CAM to think our viewer-based funding model may catalyze a change. People all across the country need access to media that raises awareness of critical issues and helps to lead us towards a more informed society. It is in the spirit of this new optimism that we launch camgrants.org
Yours Sincerely,
CAM Director
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