STARS OVER AMELIA

Dear Founding Members and AIFF Corporate Sponsors:

For the past several weeks the individuals of the Executive Committee have been making plans to thank all the friends of the Amelia Island Film Festival for the great support and dedication in helping to achieve our Inaugural Season that begins on Thursday, September 25, 2008.

On Friday, July 18, 2008 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Florida House Innwe invite you to join us to celebrate STARS OVER AMELIA with a reception, door prizes, an unveiling of the AIFF Poster designed by Fernandina Beach High School student, and the Kick-Off of 2008 Festival Passes!!

Invitations will be going out in the next 2 weeks.

This week we welcome a new CORPORATE SPONSOR--SMURFIT STONE to our growing list of community sponsors.

If you have any suggestions about this event, please let me know or join us at our next Planning Meeting on Monday, July 14 at 10 am at the Florida House Inn.

Tony

Augusta Georgia Followup

Dear AIFF Friends:

Remember Dr. Michael Fincher from Georgia that joined us at the May First Monday meeting at the FHI after the Shrimp Festival ?Enclosed is his recent email to me for your information.I will be contacting him this week to let him know that wecertainly appreciate all his efforts for the Festival !! Please put him on your list for September events and publicity efforts coming in Aug/Sept.

Have a great week to all.




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Hi Tony:

Greetings from Augusta. I wanted to follow up with you about the discussion that we had at our meeting in May. I am sorry about the tardy response but I was in France for part of the interval and didn't get around to some of my scheduled activities until I returned.

As I mentioned at our meeting we have a kind of local activities newspaper here in Augusta called "The Metro Spirit". This is a free publication available around town. While it focuses on local events they might be interested in advertising for the film festival at Amelia Island. In looking through the current edition they have various large ads (some of which are in color) as well as a classified section. Before I contact them I wanted to ask which type of ad you would want. I would think a larger type ad with an image related to the festival might be best. They will charge for this of course.

I will see about what sort of interest level in the festival exists at our local university (Augusta State Unviversity). Emory University and the University of Georgia (in Athens) also have film studies departments and I would be happy to contact them if you would like.

Can you send me an update on the itinerary for September? I'd like to tell these folks what films are scheduled, etc. Were we able to get a "celebrity" yet...? Have the venues been worked out?

My wife (Rhee) and I have tentative plans to return to Fernandina for at least some of the September events and will be sending our financial contribution in shortly. I would be able to volunteer for at least one of the days if we are able to come and Rhee might be able to do this as well. Would this be helpful? At any rate I will confirm our plans about this with your group within the next couple of weeks.

Again I am sorry about how long it took to get back to you. I certainly enjoyed meeting you last month and look forward to seeing you again soon.

Best regards.
Mike Fincher