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Help us get this life-changing film into more hands, now.

When people know, they do care

A prominent philanthropist once turned away our modest funding request saying, “No one knows, and no one cares,” as his response to Fred’s story and the message of the Native Two-Spirit tradition. But now that TWO SPIRITS has aired with such great success on PBS, many people do KNOW and do CARE. Now we can change even more hearts and minds.

Many of you have asked us (some demanded even) to work harder to get the film placed in more colleges and universities, communities of faith, and in the hands of more nonprofit organizations.

Contribute to this campaign so that more TWO SPIRITS DVD’s can be distributed to libraries, nonprofit organizations for use in their programs, tribal organizations, colleges and universities. We’ve got a long list of organizations standing by to receive copies provided by viewers. Thank you for expanding the reach of the film in this important way.

PBS stations that chose to air TWO SPIRITS covered about 90% of the country, but that leaves roughly 10 percent where the film is needed most and hasn’t been seen. We’re working quickly to raise $10,000 to target outreach and education efforts to place TWO SPIRITS where it can do great good.

Please help make this happen–a few dollars go a long way

 

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Two Spirits wins the PBS Audience Award

After breaking all records for audience engagement in the history of PBS-Independent Lens, TWO SPIRITS  received the Audience Award as the highest-rated film of the 2010-11 season by online voting and other measures of audience support!

Thousands of meaningful conversations emerged online as the film was screened 1,495 times across 140 stations from June 14-29th, 2011.

Over 150 nonprofit partner organizations participated in special screenings attended by over 50,000 people in 100 cities nationwide. In nineteen days 5,000 people commented on the film and over 2 million read about it on Facebook.

Thanks to all who supported by watching, voting and spreading the word about TWO SPIRITS!

 

More Articles:

Independent Lens blog:  Audience Award Winner Two Spirits Was a Community Effort

indieWIRE blog: Two Spirits Receives the Audience Award from PBS-Independent Lens


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Testimonials

Responses
“Riveting.”  - LA Weekly


“A gorgeous, moving, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting story, the kind of film that opens the mind and heart so wide they can never close as tightly again.”  - Martha Beck, Oprah magazine columnist and bestselling author


“TWO SPIRITS is a beautiful film, one that poignantly conveys the pain that Paula Mitchell suffered when she lost her child to hate violence.  Fred Martinez was murdered simply because he dared to be himself, and the violence against young people like him must stop. We will never be the society we hope to be until we replace hate with understanding, compassion, and acceptance. This very powerful film is an important step on that journey.”  - Judy Shepard, President of The Matthew Shepard Foundation


“A rich and textured work that provides a focal point for many important conversations on campus. It’s very moving to see the reactions, and the appreciation of so many people who feel that a deep aspect of their reality has been acknowledged and valued.”  - Ann Braude, Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer on American Religious History, Harvard Divinity School

Fred Martinez was a Navajo boy who was also a girl.  In an earlier era, he would have been revered.  Instead he was murdered.