Amorette Jones
Advisor
Serial entrepreneur and senior marketing executive for Starz, Artisan and MGM. Created wildly successful Blair Witch viral campaign.
Act Local Festivals
ESG & DEI
If you are an executive of a ‘for-profit’ company, or NGO with the role of ESG (Environmental, Social Governance) or DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion).
Filmmakers
If you are a filmmaker who’s creating content and have a sustainability, or SDGS 17 theme, we’d like offer our help.
Festivals
If you are a festival which has a sustainability, or an SDGS 17 theme, we’d like offer our help.
Non Profits
If you are a ’cause’ oriented non-profit which fits into one of the 17 sustainability goals, we’d like to help you engage with local artists to create more local engagement.
Cinema & Movie Theatres
Are you lookiung to add more ‘events’ to your local programming, have you thought about working with festivals?
Welcome to our outreach efforts.
We are encouraging support and actively providing resources to those who are ultimately aiding the United Nations in what is known as the SDGS 17 (aka Sustainable Development Goals).
Our group has created a set of tools that empowers festivals and theaters worldwide to create local events in support of the SDGs. The tools are made available as templated/whitepaper “recipe” books, apps, post production software, and theatrical distribution technologies, as well as access to the human resources and opportunities that our advisors and partners can provide.
We help bring the creative talent of filmmakers together with the festival event teams in support of ESG & DEI initiatives and of course utlimately the UN’s SDGS 17.
Ecosystem of interested parties.
The driving force of this effort will come out of the alignment of all stakeholders allowing everyone (for-profits and nonprofits alike) to benefit. 
The SDGs need messaging at the local level. Cinema theaters can act as the venue for local groups to host events. Local artists (filmmakers), and regional artists are already creating content in support of such efforts. Both local businesses and large businesses are looking to their own initiatives for good like Environmental, Social Governance (ESG), and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and other corporate goals which will align well with the SDGs. NGO’s, and local memberships of NGO’s need for members to talk and engage in conversations’ and events to promote their own efforts locally. Festivals and filmmakers provide the coordination and content which drives the entire effort.
How to get involved.
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Representative Contacts
Jeanette DePatie
Boardmember
Professional techsplainer, producer and entrepreneur working with major Hollywood Studios and tech unicorns like Google, Twitter, Bianance and Sony. Former national board member of Producers Guild of America.
Tom Roach
Advisor
30 yrs M&E engineering experience–led teams that released all customer facing products as SVP at WB 2004-2018.
Brian Quandt
Director and Chairperson
brian@autodcp.com
1-909-294-6879
Los Angeles California
Kate McCallum
Boardmember
Producer/Content Strategist/Writer. Kate spent 20 years at NBC Universal and Paramount working in film and TV development and production, and is now an award-winning producer working in multiple media formats. She is a member of the PGA: Producers Guild of America, served on the board for 6 years, and she co-founded the PGA SIE: Social Impact Entertainment Task Force through which the PGA co-produced projects with the UN on the power of storytelling and media to address the SDGs. In 2021, she co-founded and serves as a board member of DOME FEST WEST, an annual immersive media film festival. Kate also serves as a Board Advisor to the SIE Society and speaks internationally about emerging tech and the power of storytelling and the arts to create impact and transformation.
Luis Pedron
Boardmember
Founder/Festival Director and Programmer of the International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, USA now on it’s 14th Year. He is proud to advocate for Filipino, Asian, Scandinavian and European films and showcase them in New York. Pedron was the Co Founder and Programmer of the Soho International Film Festival New York, USA 2010, 2011, Festival Director of the Asians on Film Festival North Hollywood California, USA 2013, Festival Director of the One FILAM Film Festival Hollywood California, USA 2013, Festival Manager of the Viva Latino International Film Festival New York, USA 2015, Jury at the Sundayag Film Festival Philippines 2022. He is also Member of the Jury at the Caorle Independent Film Festival ( Caorle, Venice Area ) Italy 2023 and 2024.
Jeff Logan
Advisor
President of Logan Luxury Cinemas. He has received awards from Boxoffice Magazine and Paramount Pictures for movie promotions. In 2022 he was inducted into the NATO Midwest Hall of Fame in recognition of his career and service to the industry. He has written articles for the lading U.S. industry trade journal, Boxoffice magazine and Screentrade magazine, the leading trade journal in the United Kingdom.
Mikel Fair
Boardmember
Mikel Fair is the founder of Film Festival Circuit, a company that has been managing 12 different film festival events in the United States since 2008. Prior to this, Mikel worked as a production sound mixer and production manager in the film and television industry from 1999 to 2015.