Become a Supporter

2023 Annual Fund

A gift to our Annual Fund enables Light House - the only dedicated Film Education Center in Virginia - to continue to deliver on our mission. Your gift supports:

Funding our Keep-It-Reel programs (our tuition-free, community workshops)
Providing tuition assistance for youth in need
Expanding our community partnerships
Compensating our skilled mentors/artists
Housing our workshops in a safe environment
Maintaining our film equipment
Sponsoring film screenings for our community

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Youth Film Festival

With your support to our annual Youth Film Festival, you would be supporting us in our year-round mission to helping educate our local community on the art of storytelling. YFF is our most important fundraiser, providing 25% of our annual budget.

Every donation ensures we can keep providing an exceptional and unique filmmaking education to the Charlottesville community.

Will you support us in our mission?

$10,000.00 - Executive Producer
$5,000.00 - Producer
$2,500.00 - Director
$1,000.00 - Cinematographer
$500.00 - Editor
$350.00 - Assistant Director

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Adrenaline Film Project

With your direct support to the Adrenaline Film Project, we’re able to grow not only as a competition, but as an experience where new skills flourish! In 2021, we were ecstatic to take on more talented filmmakers and mentors with a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives, and provide awards and cash prizes to help jump start filmmaking careers.

Three teams got to bring home their own $500 cash prize and awards (Jury Selection Award, Mentors Award, and Audience Award), and a talented actor scored a $200 Actors’ Award!

We have six levels of sponsorship; each one is a unique way to support local artists!