Corporate Sponsorship

Please check out Informational Packet: (infopack4.pdf)

Timecode: NOLA was created in April 2003 by three independent filmmakers who wanted to live and work in New Orleans. They saw the irony in the growing local film industry, which produced no growth in opportunity for local independent filmmakers, actors, and craftspeople. The film community in the region was scattered. Many small groups of filmmakers were working in complete ignorance of each other. An independent filmmaking hub for the Gulf South was needed. Timecode: NOLA was born.

Timecode: NOLA is founded on and remains committed to presenting film to a broad audience with a uniquely New Orleans feel and presentation. The fact the producers are New Orleans natives, gives the show and its companion website a distinctive perspective: one as inimitable and complex as the city of New Orleans itself.

Dave Walker from the New Orleans Times-Picayune calls the award winning Timecode: NOLA, “something odd, indigenous and (digitally) organic...”

After just one year in production, Timecode: NOLA reaches the over one million people in the New Orleans metropolitan area and over a million more in the Austin and San Antonio, Texas areas on the Cox Communications network. Cox is the most prolific channel of local programming in the New Orleans area. The channel produces documentaries, talk shows, education features, company information, cable program promotions, local sports, music and special programming.

We have, to date, been fortunate to have the in-kind support of Cox and the personal time, knowledge, and equipment donations of the producers, along with a readily available stock of films and anxious participants to enable production of the program at minimal cost. Timecode: NOLA is now at a crossroads. It has grown to the point that it has become too costly for the producers to continue producing the show out of their own pockets. For the show to continue and to grow we need financial support. We currently seek funding to support salaries, airtime, research, equipment and marketing for audience growth, station growth, and production costs.

With proper funding, Timecode: NOLA can continue to provide this valuable hub for the film community and greatly expand its reach. The program can easily expand carriage to reach over ten million people by expanding into other areas serviced by Cox Communications, including markets across the Gulf South area and in countless other areas such as San Diego, Atlanta, Cleveland, Phoenix. Producers are also already in discussion with other cable systems in Seattle, Memphis, New York, Chicago.

In the technological age, film production does not have to be isolated to only a few privileged regions. With proper funding Timecode: NOLA will continue its mission to deliver a quality show screening area filmmakers’ work to a large audience while shining light on area film happenings, along with organizing outside screenings, bringing in selected speakers, and providing an informative website dedicated to the gulf south film community. Technology has created an opportunity for another voice: Timecode: NOLA is its podium.

Your Company presents, Timecode: NOLA

Sole corporate underwriting can given to a donation covering production and office costs, or producers salary’s or new production equipment costs .

Event Promotions:

Timecode: NOLA puts on several events ranging from monthly film screenings, sponsoring film festivals, and film forums featuring guest speakers from the film industry. For example, Timecode: NOLA sponsored a film program entitled, Local: the Indie Film and Television Reel in conjunction with the 2003 New Orleans Media Experience.

Any merchandise or promotional materials of your company can be distributed at this time to a targeted audience, making a Timecode: NOLA event an invaluable asset.

Cross Promotions:

Timecode: NOLA actively seeks out a variety of cross advertising opportunities to provide its underwriters with a diversity of media exposure.

• Mention during Television ads
• Underwriter mention during radio ads
• Underwriter logo displayed on official show web-site.
• Underwriter logo on print ads.
• Underwriter logo on Timecode: NOLA T-shirts, hats, and other promotional materials.
• Underwriter logo on flyers, posters, postcards
• Underwriter logo on select memorabilia and giveaways.

What Does Timecode Need From Your Company?

The producers of Timecode: NOLA have, up this point have produced the show with resources from their own pockets. With the show a year old, the producers have identified several areas of need to help keep the show on the air and serving the greater Gulf South community. Timecode: NOLA serves the visual arts community in New Orleans, but we cannot continue provide artists this unique opportunity to show their work on a negative budget. Plus, we feel it is now time to take the show into more markets, put on filmmaking events and seminars, hire an intern, rent office space, buy much needed equipment and office supplies. Not to forget, Timecode: NOLA is a non-profit corporation, making donations tax deductible.

Timecode: NOLA seeks corporate underwriting for several areas of production:
(Partial or full underwriting in all areas is needed at this time.)

• Producer’s salaries
• Administrative (office costs, supplies, shipping)
• Equipment costs
• Production costs, actor & crew fees, equipment rental
• Travel (film festivals, Cities outside LA airing Timecode)
• Post Production equipment, software, expenses
  (a detailed proposed budget available upon request)
  

For more sponsorship information:

Aaron Rushin, Director/Producer
cel. 504.237.6158
Aaron@timecodenola.com
www.timecodenola.com