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Pizza Express 1 Union Road Florence Way Middlesex UB8 2LS Date

Dear Sir/ Madam

I would like to introduce you to out international film festival to be held in London in October 2006.

The First festival was a great success and we attracted over 1700 people to the events. The audience at the festival was predominantly aged between 16 and 50.

In making the 2006 Festival even bigger we are looking for a festival sponsor to provide a prize for an open short film competition. We would anticipate an award of between £2500 and £5000 GPB which would be used as a production fund for a new film by the winning entry.

With national publicity this event could generate a large amount of publicity for your company as well as provide a film for future release at the international festivals.

I have enclosed a copy of the 2005 programme for you to see the quality of the events which we staged.

If you are interested in this opportunity please do not hesitate to contact me on (tel) or e-mail (address)

Media Arts is a registered charity who exists to engage a wide cross section of people in the production of short film and media arts. We are funded through Screen East – UK Film Council, the Borough Council and County Council. Thank you for your time and I hope you enjoy the programme and showreel.

Best wishes

I got the following information from a friend who has spent alot of time in advertising and this is her advice so initially once we have a sponsorship letter together if everyone could contact their friends and family...

Hi Bells,The best place for you to start is asking all those involved to sned a brochure to their contacts - parents friends etc. Then look at the content of the show and make links between the art & specific company types and target those, ie production cos, art cos, media cos, materials cos (those who make the materials you use) and other larger cos as well as local companies or restaurants/bars/clubs theatres etc.Work out how the company would benefit from the tie up and then sell sell sell. Look at ongoing associations as well and showcase the progression of previous MA students. You want it to look like a no brainer to them where the benefits outweigh the cost.Call me if you have any questions. Sarah Bell

A list of what possible sponsors and dedicated letter to them...

mobile phone companies 3 . Mark Rigby Corporate Affairs Director ph: 0845 604 3000 address: Hutchison 3G, Hutchison House, 5 Hester Road, London, SW11 4AN mission statement (extract) : To establish professional development workshops on technological developments within telecommunica-tions for local council officers and elected members.

Virgin Media office: Phone +44 (0) 845 600 6272 Address: Virgin Mobile, The Communications Building, 5th Floor, 48 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LT

Wanado / broadband companies E-Learning Companies? Science/art combination funders projector companies? AV hire companies? Printing comanies? Apple IBM Micro Anvika People that make Blackboard Local camberwell businesses - Peckham Cinema? Local music venues, clubs The Co-operative Bank (gives arts grants) The Arts Council? Southwark Council Education Authority. (I spoke to my friend who is a councellor in Hackney and she said that the Education Authority there has money that they use for sponsorships.) Channel 4 BBC Sky Artsworld

In large corporations, the department to enquire about sponsorship is called Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR. Some have a dedicated section on their website.

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