Donors Past, Present and Future
More Advantages of Becoming a Supporter

  1. • A highly aware world-wide animation community is visiting the

  2.    AniMazing Spotligh! site, and attending its festivals.


  1. • AniMazing Spotlight! is a unique “festival & feedback” project,

  2.   with international acclaim, offering a prime branding opportunity.


  4. • ASIFA International is showing a 90 min. DVD, with winners from

  5.    the inaugural Festival to their elite chapters around the world.


  7. • Display your logo on AniMazSpot products: Cups, Tote Bags,

  8.    T-Shirts, Souvenir Programs, Intro films, and DVD programs.


  10. • Get your message out to the animation growth market ... studios,

  11.     schools, events, galleries, publishers, Hollywood retailers,

  12.     companies, collectors, and dedicated animation enthusiasts.

Some Ways Funds are Used ... • Souvenir Programs • Discounts for Entrants • Additional Prize Money • Festival Staff Salaries • Festival Promotion • Production Expenses • Web Site Maintenance • Preps for Next Year’s Events

The DVD cover to the 90 minute program of all 2009 winners, plus a montage of the festival activities.

Page 2 of our 2009 Festival Souvenir Program

Browse, See What We’re Up To ... • We’ve added extra buttons to make it easier to navigate, but there are over 40 pages, so there’s much more to see. You can find links to all our pages at the top of our new Blog page. To get there just click one of the two the Blog panels at the bottom of the Home page. Have fun, the AniMazing Spotlight! Team
Tax Exempt Donations Our goal is to raise funds for the 2012 festival in September, which we anticipate to cost around $25,000. A brochure detailing the expenses and programs is now available, as well as 3 videos now up on our “media” page. Click the PayPal button below to make your donation, or contact us for more information, or to get a copy of the brochure. In-kind donations are also possible. If you’d rather send a check, make it payable to “Animazing Spotlight” and send it to: Animazing Spotlight 730 N. Whitnall Highway, #216 Burbank, CA 91505, Usa On receipt of your donation we will issue you an Acknowledgment (see sample below) for proof to the IRS that you’ve donated to a legal non-profit. We will also add your name to our Donor’s List (below the sample of the Acknowledgement receipt). Thanks for your interest in our mission, the AniMazSpot team.
To pay on-line via Pay Pal
AniMazSpot: The Time is Right AniMazing Spotlight! was launched Oct. 1, 2008, out of a concern that animated shorts weren’t getting the respect and recognition they deserved, for their own creative and technical innovations, and for the impact they have on viewers concerning important world-wide issues. Plus, animated shorts are the first step for many as an entrée into the animation community, so they need to be seen. Our goal was to correct those inequities -- we’re on our way -- the time is right. Animated shorts can be powerful and to the point, and these animated shorts filmmakers need recognition, respect, and reassurance that they’re not heading down a dead-end. Our first step was to put an international panel of animation experts together to give written critiques to every filmmaker's short. The panel was an instant success. The next step was to create an annual festival to show these filmmakers’ shorts to the large and important Southern California animation community, so young film makers can get the exposure they deserve. The first year one individual, Dr. Robert Bunes, shouldered most of the financial burden, while Tee Bosustow focussed on organizational and production matters. Soon they realized that Animazing Spotlight needed to become a non-profit organization, and so began the long process of research and applications. Shortly after the 2009 inaugural festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, AniMazSpot became a California State Non-Profit Organization. (see official document below left) But, that was just the beginning. In 2010, Bosustow took over the bulk of the financial responsibilities, and began preparing the complex application for the IRS 501c3 federal non-profit tax exempt status. The thick proposal was sent off to the IRS on February 19th, 2010 and determination to grant AniMazSpot’s federal tax exempt status came in June. But it went to the old AniMazSpot address, so it wasn’t discovered until November 3, 2010. (official document below right) So, the IRS is sending us our determination papers, showing we are a state AND federal non-profit, making all donations tax deductible.

AniMazSpot

Festival

Juggler

created by

Lou Romano

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Donors, Sponsors, Funders, and Patrons are generally thought of by AniMazSpot in terms of the amount they donate. You can choose any name you wish for your contribution, otherwise Donors will be anything up to $1,000, Sponsors go up to $5,000, and Patrons are anything over. Advertisers are usually those who take out a specific ad in a souvenir program or on our website, such as banner ads. The terms are somewhat interchangeable, so select what works best for you.
Short History Our three interconnected projects began in 2003 when we started work on a feature length documentary on UPA Pictures, which morphed into a quest for lost UPA films and materials. The interviews we did for the doc soon expanded into a series of interviews

on animation people in general, which then became a podcast called

Toon in to the World of Animation.  Work continues to be done on the doc and interviews.  In summer of 2008 we developed the AniMazing Spotlight! project, launching it in the fall of 2008.  Investments, loans, and donations have been put toward all three projects, and in terms

of financial support, we consider the support of one, to be the support of all three.  Now that we are a non profit we no longer accept and investments, as that is not allowed under our new organization.

AniMazSpot’s

“Triple Threat”

non-profit organization

Some of our early supporters:


Trang Lu                    Thanks to all who

Ken Gale                    have supported us,

Ed Stevens                not just financially,

Brett Rogers             but in many other

Jerry Palmer             ways, as well.

Robert Bunes     

Christyne Byron         The list is too long,

Michael Bethune        but many grace other       

Patrick Dunavan        pages of this website.


several wish to remain anonymous

Here are a few specific examples: AniMazSpot Web Site placement, with Link to Sponsors web site. Placement in Festival Souvenir Program given out to audience. Include Your Promo Materials in Audience Souvenir Tote Bag. Included in most Publicity, Promotion, Posters & Advertising. Listed in the Credits of most AniMazSpot DVD productions.

Sample Donor Appreciation and Receipt Certificate

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Scroll down for some Special Magoo at the Alex Sponsorships

Magoo at the Alex

Animazing Spotlight has been organizing a special evening of all 15 UPA Pictures

Oscar nominations and wins, along

with 5 additional Magoo Favorites.

High Visibility

Sponsorships

Available

  1. •Your company gets top billing with “presents” over the title

  2. or shares it with AniMazSpot, or a second sponsoring org,           at Alex event, and all publicity and promotional materials.


  4. •Be a Sponsor on the “Screen Greeting” - projected at the Alex       

  5. on the theater screen, as we did at this year’s festival between each program.  It fills the screen at the audience files in.


• Full-page Ad in the Souvenir Program for Magoo at the Alex


• Website Ad (full page ad, banner ad, sponsoring an entrant, etc.)


• Promo Table in the Alex Theater Foyer, as we had at the 

     AmiMazSpot 2011 festival.


(other sponsorships are available, and all prices are negotiable)


Tax Exempt Donor’s List

    2011

        Aug. 26  Bob Danziger    $1,000

        Sep. 5     Dave Brain            $100

        Dec. 6     Dave Brain            $100

        Dec. 15   Punky plushes     $500

    2011

        Jan. 18    Dave Brain           $100

        Jan. 21    Bill Matthews       $100

        Jan. 24    Bill Dennis             $250

        Feb. 11    Fred Wolf               $500

        Mar. 6      Chuck Swenson   $250

        Sep. 21  Jana Johnson        $100

        Sep. 22  Jack Ofield               $45

        Sep. 23  Dave Brain             $100

        Oct.  03  Dave Brain             $650

    2012

        Jan. 27 Adrián Garcia         $250

        Mar. 25 Eliza Gardner         $150

        Mar. 25 Brett Rogers           $500

        May. 09 Sally Benson           $100

        Aug. 30 Woodbury

                            Cartoon Club      $132

 

AniMazSpot conducts Animation Presentations,

Tributes & Interviews around the World,

one more part of our effort, which involves

all three sections of our organization. 


AniMazSpot • Toon in • UPA Legacy


Here’s a partial list:


        Filmex, Century City, California

        Anima Mundi International Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

        ASIFA Paris, Gobelins L’Ecole de L’Image, Paris, France

        Ottawa International Festival, Ottawa, Canada

        Woodbury University, Burbank, California

        Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, California

        ComiCon, San Diego, California

        Zagreb International Festival, Zagreb, Croatia

        Pixar Animation Studio, Emeryville, California

        American Film Institute, Los Felis, California

        Laguna College of Art, Laguna Beach, California

        CinAnima International Festival, Espinho, Portugal.

        Melbourne International Festival, Melbourne, Australia

Ottawa 2006

Filmex 1978

Zagreb 2005

Rio 2007

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