KARAMA’s vision is to grow the San Diego Arab Film Festival into a major cultural event that enhances the identity, perception and understanding of the Arab and the Arab world. Doing so will require time, energy and money. You can help in multiple ways:
We always welcome your financial support. You can donate by clicking on the button below. KARAMA is tax exempt under Internal Revenue Code 501(3)c. We use PayPal for secure transactions by credit card or by PayPal account. On the PayPal page you can specify that your donation be applied to the Arab Film Festival. All donations are acknowledged in the Festival program distributed at all screenings.
If your employer offers a benefit of matching your charitable contributions, please consider requesting a match for your contribution to KARAMA to support the San Diego Arab Film Festival.
There are four levels of sponsorship available. They include various incentives, depending on level, ranging from acknowledgment and advertisement space in the Festival program to tickets, and promotion of logos on the festival website and in emails.
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Friends are acknowledged in the Festival program and on screen at each screening and receive two festival passes.
Half page ad in program, logo on web page and email announcements, on-screen thank you at each screening, four festival passes.
Full page ad in program, logo on web page and email announcements, on-screen thank you at each screening, two festival passes and four addition tickets to screening(s) of choice.
Full page ad in program, logo on web page, email announcements and festival poster, on-screen thank you at each screening, six festival passes.
The program pages will be full color, 5.5 inches wide by 8.5 inches high. Advertisements are available at quarter-page, half-page, and full-page sizes.
Advertisements in the Film Festival program, without the incentives included in sponsorships, are available in these sizes.
Click here to download our advertising opportunities brochure
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Actual Dimension: 5.5”W x 8.5”H Printable Area: 4.875”W x 7.875”H
Actual Dimension: 5.5”W x 4.25”H Printable Area: 4.875”W x 3.875”H
Actual Dimension: 5.5”W x 2.125”H Printable Area: 4.875”W x 1.875”H
Of all of the publicity methods we have tried, the one cited most by those who have attended past festivals is “heard about it from friends.” Please spread the word about the Film Festival among your friends and colleagues. Like us on Facebook
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Putting on a film festival requires lots of volunteers with all kinds of experience and skill levels, from ticket takers and ushers to social media managers. If you would like to volunteer, email us at volunteer@sandiegoaff.org.
The Poem We Sang is a 20-minute, color and black and white, experimental documentary that meditates on love and longing – the love of one’s family and the longing for one’s home, contemplated through overcoming the trauma of loss of family home and of forced migration, transforming lifelong regrets into a healing journey of creative catharsis and bearing witness. The Poem We Sang is at once deeply personal and fiercely nostalgic – a tribute to the director’s uncle my family, and an ode to their lost family home in Palestine.
Arzé is a struggling single mother living in Beirut with her agoraphobic older sister and teenage son, Kinan. Supporting the family by making homemade pies delivered on foot by her son, Arzé knows that the business can only sustain them for so long. In a move of desperation, she steals her sister’s cherished bracelet to pawn for the down payment on a delivery scooter. But disaster strikes when the scooter is stolen, jeopardizing her only way to provide for her family. Up against a ticking clock to either find the scooter or a way to pay for it in full, Arzé and Kinan embark on a wild journey through the turbulent but vibrant, multiethnic Levantine capital in pursuit of the pilfered moped.
