Hello fellow travelers, explorers, pioneers and visionaries!
First I want to give a huge thank you to everyone who has thrown their support behind us in the first few months since we launched our Patreon campaign!
I can't say how much it means to me and our team to have your support. It really is making a huge difference. Already, our monthly Patreon income is roughly double what we've been making recently from ads, and this is giving us a vital lifeline to continue growing and developing the project.
We're hoping by the end of the year we can reach our first major milestone, ensuring Films For Action remains healthy and strong for years to come.
New Rewards
$5 Visionary supporters can now watch 2 amazing films from our pay-per-view library for free!
$10 Vanguard supporters (and higher) can now watch as well as download a digital copy of these 2 films.
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Within Reach explores one couple's pedal-powered search for a place to call home. Mandy and Ryan gave up their jobs, cars, and traditional houses to 'bike-pack' 6500 miles around the USA seeking sustainable community. Rather than...
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65 min ·
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction...
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Major thanks to the filmmakers for partnering with us to make this possible!
http://www.withinreachmovie.com
https://www.localfutures.org
Going forward, we hope to add new films to these reward tiers every so often as a continuing thank you for your support.
Revamped Homepage Incoming
We're currently working on a redesign of the homepage and we're excited to have that live on the site later this week!
Goals for the redesign include:
Making the homepage a place you want to visit more often
Instead of bringing in most of our traffic through specific links posted on social media, we want to encourage more direct traffic to the homepage, similar to how people go to netflix.com simply to see what there is to discover.
Surface buried gems
There's a ton of really great content on the site, but the best stuff has inevitably become buried as our library has grown in size. Part of my work going forward will be making sure the best of the best gets surfaced on the homepage, which will make it easier for new people to dive in as well as for long-time supporters to discover great content they may have missed.
Clear calls to action
As a community-powered website, roughly half of the 8,000 highly rated videos and articles on the site have been added by our members. That said, many people often email us about adding something, not realizing yet that they can add content to the site directly. We want to make this more clear for folks and really encourage more member submissions, because the quality and depth of our library is only possible with lots of people contributing.
That's all for now!
With gratitude,
Tim Hjersted
Films For Action Director and Co-Founder
https://www.filmsforaction.org/contact/