Individual Donations
Individual Donations of $25 or more will receive the Music of Timecode:
NOLA CD as an added bonus.
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.
Any sum would be greatly appreciated. Checks can be made to Timecode
NOLA, Inc..
Thanks,
Timecode: NOLA
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