Rescue Diva donates $500 to help sponsor Animal Film Festival
At AFF 2016 documentary filmmaker Erin Parks presented ‘Finding Shelter,’ about an intrepid British family who create a dog shelter in Bulgaria.
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~
Justin Zimmerman won the AFF 2016 Best Feature Award for his documentary ‘SMART,’ about the Los Angeles city shelter’s extraordinary team of professional animal rescuers.
Here at Rescue Diva we’ve always been big fans of the Animal Film Festival (AFF). Now we’re happy to report that by donating $500, we’ve bumped up our status beyond fandom to become an official “Festival Friend” sponsor of the AFF scheduled for February 2017.
Produced by the Center for Animal Protection and Education (CAPE), the festival is a one-day event held every winter in northern California’s scenic Gold Country to “entertain and enlighten audiences with independent films, comedies, documentaries, and work by emerging artists,” as described on the AFF website.
Renewed vigor
The day completely fulfills and exceeds that promise. Rescue Diva has attended two of the three years’ festivals so far, and each time we’ve come away with a vastly expanded understanding of the issues that animals face, and renewed vigor for the work of helping them.
We confess that two of our dearest friends, CAPE’s Shelley Frost and JP Novic founded and organize the event, so that’s another reason why we love attending. But that dynamic duo and their excellent staff of volunteers make everyone feel welcome and happy to be there.
Here’s to the 2018 Animal Film Festival!
Filmmaker Duncan Skiles grabs some closeup footage while visiting nearby sanctuary Animal Place. His film ‘Penelope: A Rescue Story’ tells the tale of a chicken saved from an Orthodox Jewish sacrifice ritual.
Be a sponsor
Visit the AFF site to check out the great benefits that festival sponsorship offers to you, your organization, or company.
Read more about JP, Shelley, CAPE, and AFF:
Animal Heroes: Shelley Frost and JP Novic soar with ‘CAPE’ of protection and education
Rescue teamwork: How a starving, pregnant Greek cat hit the springtime adoption jackpot
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Katerina Lorenzatos Makris is a career journalist, author, and editor. Her fiction includes 17 novels for Simon and Schuster, E.P. Dutton, Avon, and other major publishers (under the name Kathryn Makris), as well as a teleplay for CBS-TV, and a short story for The Bark magazine. She has written hundreds of articles for regional wire services and for outlets such as National Geographic Traveler, The San Francisco Chronicle, Travelers’ Tales, NBC’s Petside.com, Animal Issues Reporter.com, and Examiner.com (Animal Policy Examiner).
Together with coauthor Shelley Frost, Katerina wrote a step-by-step guide for hands-on, in-the-trenches dog rescue, Your Adopted Dog: Everything You Need to Know About Rescuing and Caring for a Best Friend in Need (The Lyons Press).
