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Stay at Home for the Academy Awards® this year and support the MCFC with your “No Show.” Donate by Feb. 10 to be entered in a Movie-Theme Gift Basket benefit drawing! The Monterey County Film Commission’s main fundraiser for the past 21 years has been a glamorous gala in a ballroom, celebrating the Academy Awards® with a live, big-screen telecast. This year’s appeal is different: Be a “No Show” on going out, and instead donate directly to the nonprofit MCFC. You’ll be entered into a benefit drawing for a special movie-theme gift basket. Then just tune into the Feb. 26 broadcast on Central Coast ABC TV in the comfort of your own home. MORE-The Monterey County Film Commission’s Film Student Scholarship & Award Program has just increased this year’s award from $1,000 to $2,000, thanks to private donations and funding from the Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation (MIPFF).
Applications for the fifth annual scholarship program are being accepted until Feb. 17, 2012. The $2,000 award winner (or two $1,000 winners if the prize is split) will be announced March 31. Eligibility information and application forms may be downloaded HERE, or contact the film commission office at 831-646-0910.
Thanks to Katrina Mendez and the Birdies for Charity Program.The Monterey County Film Commission thanks 17-year-old Katrina Mendez, for representing our nonprofit in the fundraiser golf shootout at Peter Hay Golf Course on Jan. 21, 2012. It was part of the Birdies for Charity program of the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, which hosts the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Golf tournament. Golfers for 66 nonprofits competed, and four charities will advance to the next shoot out in Pebble Beach on Feb. 7 where the “closet to the pin” winners can potentially earn up to $50,000. MORE
The Monterey County Film Commission brings the “lights, camera….and economic action” to Monterey County in its 25th Anniversary Year. More than $4.1 million was left last budget year, benefiting local crew, hotels, retailers, landowners, and goods and services from food markets to gas stations. Film-friendly Monterey County puts out the welcome mat to productions for their positive economic boost to the economy.