[CounterCorp] Save the dates: 2008 Anti-Corporate Film Festival, Oct. 15-17

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Dear CounterCorp supporter,

	We're thrilled to announce the dates and venue for the 3rd Annual  
CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival. This year's Festival runs  
Wednesday to Friday, Oct. 15-17, at the Brava Theater Center at 2781  
24th Street (@ York) in the Mission District.

	Some of you may remember the Brava Theater as the venue for several  
one-night film screenings CounterCorp has done in the past. It's a  
beautiful theater that used to be a vaudeville and movie house, went  
out of business and was abandoned, and was later renovated into a non- 
profit center for all kinds of arts, with a focus on works by and  
about women.

	We're very happy to have such a nice space for this year's Festival,  
and especially one with a more sizable lobby, which is much bigger  
than the one at the Victoria Theater (where we've held the Festival  
for the past two years) or other local, independently owned (i.e., non- 
corporate) theaters we were considering as potential venues.

	So now that we know when and where this year's Festival will be, the  
next question is: Will YOU be there? We're hoping to have as many  
returning Festival goers from past years as possible, along with as  
many new ones as we can.

	So please mark the dates down in your calendar, tell your friends and  
family about it, and post it on any e-mail lists, web calendars, and/ 
or blogs that you can. Getting the word out is the biggest part of  
making any event a success, and we can really use your help to grow  
the audience for this year's CounterCorp Festival.

	The full program and list of speakers and events will be announced in  
September, so stay tuned for more information. (If there are any films  
you think we should know about before this year's program is  
finalized, please feel free to e-mail us at  
submissions at countercorp.org.)

	And if you'd like to get the latest details on the films, times, and  
speakers for this year's Festival automatically "pushed" to your  
computer or iPhone/iPod calendar, click on this link: <webcal://icalx.com/public/CounterCorp/CounterCorp.ics 
 >.

	Finally, please consider making a donation to help us defray the  
costs of the theater and films for this year's Festival. The Brava  
Theater Center is an independent non-profit arts organization, and we  
are happy to support them by paying a substantial fee to use their  
facilities.

	Ticket sales cover only about one-third of the Festival expenses,  
which means we need to fundraise to cover the remaining two-thirds of  
the our budget. We are an all-volunteer organization, which means none  
of the people who works on the Festival gets for their time and effort  
in organizing and presenting it.

	We would greatly appreciate any contribution you can make to help us  
continue to build and improve the Anti-Corporate Film Festival every  
year. To donate online, go to <https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?id=695 
 > and select "CounterCorp" from the drop-down menu. To donate by  
mail, send checks (made out to "CounterCorp") to:

CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival
2017 Mission Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110

	Contributions to CounterCorp are tax-deductible. Thanks as always for  
your support -- we couldn't do any of this without you!

See you at the Festival!

John Wilner
Director