CALL FOR DOCUMENTARY PROPOSALS:

       In May of 2009 this website, camgrants.org, was launched.  CAM stands for Citizens Alternative Media, and it creates a social network that assists documentarians fund and distribute their films. 

We have a revolutionary idea for a viewer-based funding organization. Here is how it works: Our members pay modest annual dues, part of which will be used to fund the site, but most of which they will use as what we call "dollar votes". 

Documentarians  will post proposals on the site; members will read the proposals and view any trailer media the producers have created. They will vote to grant the project any number of "dollar votes" they have available. After a pre-established period of time CAM will write a check to the media proposer for the total "dollar votes" that members have democratically elected to give as a no strings attached developmental grant. 

       If you have a project seeking its first funding or in post-production or anywhere in between, we want to hear about it. 

       Our model of financing independent documentaries differs from many organizations in that nothing stands between documentary creators and their interested audience. There are no boards of directors or grant committees or commissioning editors or acquisitions executives. Grants come directly from a community of dedicated member viewers. 

       We live in interesting times. Funding for progressive media has never been so tight.  The power of consolidated corporate media is still undiminished, however there is some hope of openness to change in our new political leadership.  This new optimism coupled with the succesess of a few big name documentarians during the D(umb) years leads us at CAM  to think our viewer based funding  model may catalize a change. People all across the country want to support documentary production that raises awareness of issues and helps to lead us to a more informed electorate.

       If what I am saying has you interested please visit  Citizens Alternative Media at 

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                                                                                                                Russ Levine