WEST 47th STREET BENEFIT IN A BOX
Do-it-yourself kit with everything you need to create a successful Fundraising Event or Community Screening using the award-winning documentary film "West 47th Street"

“I saw tears in the eyes of more than one person during the discussion. Thank you for this great opportunity." – Billings, Montana Chapter, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.

"West 47th Street gives emotional oomph to LCM's multimedia campaign for understanding mental illness, plowing like an icebreaker through frozen assumptions about homeless people." - Current, journal of public broadcasting

Create your own Fund Raising event or Community Educational Screening!

This is your opportunity to use the emotional power of the feature-length documentary film, West 47th Street, which follows the lives of four people with serious mental illness over three years, to easily and and successfully create your own fundraiser or community educational screening.

The producers of West 47th Street, Lichtenstein Creative Media, have helped facilitate over 100 community screenings of the film from Grand Rounds at Yale Medical School to community screenings/fundraising benefits for mental health groups in cities including Honolulu, Tulsa, Atlanta, Cleveland, New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Jackson, MS, San Francisco, Austin, Salt Lake City, Milwaukee, and Boston, among others (click here for list of educational screenings and fundraisers held to date) as part of the film's ongoing national, educational outreach and community engagement campaign.

Community screenings of the film have helped raise funding and engage local mental health advocates and professionals, and members of the public, in critical and productive discussions about such important issues as living with and access to care for mental illness, homelessness and the need for housing, substance abuse, the success of community-based mental health programs, stigma, and the need for increased funding to support treatment and services that work.

WEST 47th STREET: The Film
West 47th Street is a highly-acclaimed, award-winning film co-produced by Bill Lichtenstein and June People, which takes its cameras into the lives of four homeless people living with serious mental illness. Filmed over three years, West 47th Street reveals the human face of mental illness, and the resulting stories, both warm and dramatic, are about people who approach tremendous obstacles with humor, optimism and grace.

At times hilarious and at other times tragic, West 47th Street represents a radical return to cinema verite, without interviews or narration. It has been hailed as "must see," by Newsweek, "remarkable," by the Washington Post, and called "a life-altering cinema experience," by Tulsa World. The film has played to sold-out audiences around the world, from Vancouver to Dublin to Paris to South Korea, and at more than 100 theatres and community screenings and benefits here in the U.S. The film was winner of "Best Documentary" at the Atlanta Film Festival and won the "Audience Award" at the DC Independent Film Festival, and later aired on the prestigious PBS documentary series, P.O.V. The film is produced by the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media (LCM), creators of public radio's "The Infinite Mind."

WEST 47th STREET's "Benefit in a Box"™
"Everything you need to hold a successful Fundraising event or Community Screening"
LCM has been responsible for facilitating over 100 local community screenings of West 47th Street. Now, we have taken what we - and local organizations and mental health advocates - have learned and created "Benefit-in-a-Box," the first "do-it-yourself" kit to create the perfect outreach or fundraising event. Included are all of the elements you’ll need to quickly and successfully plan, conduct and evaluate a successful community education or fundraising event for your organization using the award-winning PBS documentary West 47th Street.

WEST 47th STREET's "Benefit in a Box" includes:

• DVD and VHS copies of the 83-minute film (including “public performance rights” to screen the documentary for a fundraiser.)
• Printed full-color postcards for fundraising or promotional use.
• Film posters.
• Press kit to help generate publicity for the event and your organization.
• 24-page full-color Discussion Guide.
• CD-ROM with printable copies of the following reproducible items:
  • “Elements of a Successful Event” with step-by-step easy-to- follow instructions.
  • “Eight Steps to Success” when planning a West 47th Street event—tips from others who have held successful community and fundraising events using the film.
  • Customizable templates for press release and invitations.
  • Publicity materials including reviews, articles, credits, filmmakers bios, and stills from film.
  • West 47th Street logo.
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the “making of” the film.
  • Audience and Facilitator’s evaluation forms to help measure the impact of your event, including sample questionnaires to be filled out by event organizers and event attendees.

Included is this 24-page full-color discussion and educational guide, filled with additional information about the film, mental health resources, and suggestions for using the film as a vehicle for discussing such issues as mental illness, substance abuse, homelessness, housing, access to care and stigma.

(Click here to preview Discussion and Educational Guidebook.)

Order yours today! Comes in easily storable carry case. West 47th Street's "Benefit in a Box" is the perfect way to hold your next community outreach or fundraising event!

West 47th Street "Benefit in a Box." (Includes VHS and DVD of 87 minute film, and everything you need to hold a successful screening event or fundraiser.)
$400.00

For information about screening West 47th Street for a theatrical audience contact Lichtenstein Creative Media at LCM@LCMedia.com or call 212-967-1200 or 866-LCM-FILM.