2010

9/2/10    Bob Silvestri, founder of EMF, has been invited to be a participant at Good Pitch in San Francisco, October 3rd.

8/28/10   EMF participates as a panelist at the IIFF Angels Pitch Forum in San Francisco.

8/27/ 10   EMF provides project development advisory services to Haley Downs' and Julie Kahn's Swamp Cabbage documentary project.

8/20/10   EMF provides fiscal sponsorship and fundraising advisory services for theWildlifePortal.tv, a new online video channel showcasing National Geographic television host Jake Willers. The new web service provides videos and teaching tools about animals and their environment, to the general public and K-12 schools.

7/9/10     EMF acquires all assets and technology of doGoodr.org.  The doGoodr Fund becomes a project of Environmental Media Fund creating opportunities for joint funding initiatives, and development of new social networking tools to assist media makers in their promotional and fundraising efforts.

7/7/10     EMF provides fiscal sponsorship and fundraising advisory services for NatureBreak.org, an online video social networking tool about the environment and nature.

6/23/10   EMF Presents "Show Me The Money - Internet Crowd-Sourcing, Alternative Distribution & New Funding Methods" at the IIFF Town Hall in San Francisco.

6/15/10   EMF provides project development and funding consulting services for the Filmmakers Collaborative SF for their 2010 film slate.

5/7/10     EMF at the IWFF in the news.

5/1/10     EMF provides project and funding consulting services for Michael Nash's Climate Refugees documentary and educational outreach project.

4/12/10 Bob Silvestri makes a special keynote presentation at the 2010 International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana - May 2010. Visit their web site for information.

2/15/10 EMF fiscally sponsors Marianna Yarovskaya's new documentary, Shamans - Healing the World.

1/1/10  EMF resumes active support of projects dealing with cutting edge environmental, health and social justice issues.  Support is only available for a limited number of applicants. Please review our submission guidelines and selection criteria.

2009

7/01/09  EMF begins its ongoing advisory assistance to Caroline Harrison's Green China Rising documentary project. EMF provided legal and financial consulting, and story and project development.

6/30/09  EMF adds new films to the EMF Showcase offering views about the world crisis we all face.

6/1/09   EMF begins accepting proposals and requests for assistance for 2009 - 2010.

6/30/08  The Board of Directors of EMF voted to place the organization on limited activity status in order to restructure priorities and goals. During this time, EMF will not be accepting inquiries. Consulting and advisory assistance will continue on a limited basis. 

6/10/08  EMF begins providing ongoing consulting services for the launch of Blog4Reel, the first-ever competition giving bloggers the chance to have their blogs turned into actual movies

6/1/08  EMF enters discussions with Specialty Studios to form an ongoing alliance to sponsor packages of up to 12 documentaries and educational media deliverable (the "Momentum" Project), for general public distribution. 

5/15/08  EMF adds The Truth About GMOs to EMF Showcase.  A troubling account of why genetically modified organisms are potentially harmful to your health, the environment and future generations.

4/10/08   EMF adds Burning the Future to EMF Showcase.  David Novack's telling of the true story of community efforts to stop the most destructive form of energy development in the United States - mountain top remocal coal mining.

2/1/08   EMF adds Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff to EMF Showcase.

2007

12/31/07 EMF completes its study of methods of financing documentary production and distribution, The Documentary Project, and endorses the efforts of The Philanthropy Network's doGoodr project.

9/15/07   EMF sponsored South Central Farm chosen to premiere at the AFI Film Festival in November 07.

8/10/07   Public Citizen, Texas, selects EMF's Rising Sea to raise awareness about global warming with TXU Corp. shareholders and stop new coal fired power plants.

6/25/07   EMF adds Call of Life, by the Species Alliance, to EMF Showcase.

5/1/07     EMF sponsored film, South Central Farm, is accepted as an episode for the fall season of Natural Heroes.

4/5/07    EMF provides advisory services to Juno Venture for their upcoming film on sustainable travel.

4/4/07    EMF adds The Bio DaVersity Code, by Free Range Studios, to the EMF Showcase.

3/20/07    The Climate Change exhibition at the University of Graz in Austria chooses The Rising Sea for inclusion in their multi media public presentation.

2/15/07   EMF offers project development and technical assistance services to the producers of Chesapeake People, a documentary about the health of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem as told through the oral, personal histories of local fishermen, crabbers and oystermen. Producers include the Chesaeake Bay Maritime Museum and the American University School of Environmental Filmmaking.

2/10/07   EMF offers advisory services to director Leslie Blook Van Ee for her Mama Earth documentary project.

1/26/07   EMF adds The Mouth Revolution, by Free Range Studios, to the EMF Showcase.

 

1/10/07   EMF provides advisory services for John McDonald's documentary project, Ghost Mountain.