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Dear Friends of Light House,
Two decades ago, Light House Studio taught its first workshop, “Video Diaries,” to a handful of students in the basement of the Jefferson Theater. The buildings have changed, but our students’ talents for telling stories have continued. In fact, they’re so good at it that in 2019 their films were accepted into a record-breaking 31 national and international film festivals, proving their abiliity to compete on a national level with major awards including a Silver Medal at the New York International Film Awards, Best Animation at the Sunny Side Up Film Festival and Best National High School Documentary at the Wildcat Spirit Film Festival.
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During the ten years I’ve served as Director of Light House, I’ve seen the organization grow from serving 270 children to over 1,700 and our partnerships expand from 19 other nonprofit organizations and schools to 68. None of this would have been possible without you. Thank you for your continued support and your belief in our mission to teach storytelling through film to any student who wants to learn. Last year, 80% of our 1,700+ students attended at reduced or no cost. We look forward to seeing you at the renovated Vinegar Hill Theatre. Look out for the announcement about the unveiling of our new studios.
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Deanna Gould, Executive Director
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Many of you have seen the construction at the Vinegar Hill Theatre. In April 2019, we broke ground on the addition of two teaching studios with the goal of completing them by summer 2020 in time for our 20th year celebration. Last summer, we had to place 85 children on our Summer Film Academy wait list due to lack of teaching space. The necessary studios will help us accommodate these students going forward. Having successfully completed the fundraiser for the addition, we continue to raise funds for Phase III, the preservation fund, which will keep the Vinegar Hill Theatre operating in perpetuity. With the studios underway, we’ve also launched a “Save a Seat” campaign so that we can replace the badly worn seats at the Theatre.
L I G H T S , CAME R A, ACTION
“Light House is very laid back, and allows for a creative vision to come into fruition, not to mention the extreme knowledge of film that each instructor brings.” --Emmett, 10th grade
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1,768 Students Taught
400 Films Produced
76 Local Artists & Filmmakers
68 Community Partners
121 Workshops
MORE THAN FILMMAKING Percentages of students who said they improved in the soft skills listed below
Creativity
--Light House Parent
Collaboration
Planning and Organization
92% 90% 93% Storytelling
Critical Thinking
Empathy
5,447 attendees 257 films screened
VINEGAR HILL THEATRE
96% 93% 94%
"It felt like a very unique opportunity for our child to learn movie making as a form of creative self expression that I am not sure she would otherwise have access to. She really enjoyed herself and it was great to see her making friends and feeling confident."
A COMMUNITY EFFORT
65 SCHOOLS
REPRESENTED
68 COMMUNITY
PARTNERS Abundant Life Accessible Theatre Project Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society Albemarle Garden Club Albemarle High School ESOL Albemarle High School LatinX Allison Partners Barrett Early Learning Center Big Brothers Big Sisters Black Male Achievement Blue Ridge Detention Center Bon Air Detention Center Broadus Wood Elementary Brownsville Elementary Carver Recreation Center CBIC Tech Tour Charlottesville Climate Collaborative
Charlottesville Family Charlottesville High School AVID Charlottesville Parks & Rec Community Homeschool Enrichment Center Chroma Projects Art Labratory City of Promise Common House Creative Mornings Cville Pride Entreprise Center for Learning & Growth Friendschip Court Foster Care Adoption Coalition Foster Camp Connection Greenstone on 5th Grit Coffee Hungary Middle School
International Neighbors Ivy Creek School Jack Jouett Boys & Girls Club John Rolfe Middle SchoolLocal Food Hub Live Arts Meriwether Lewis Elementary Mountaintop Montessori Music Resource Center New City Arts New Dominion Bookshop NewGen Peacebuilders Paramount Theater Peabody School Piedmont Housing Alliance Religion, Race, & Democracy Lab Renaissance School Second Street Gallery
Sigora Solar Southwood Boys & Girls Club Stone Robinson Elementary The Bridge PAI The Front Porch The Village School Tom Tom Festival University of Virginia Victory Hall Opera Virginia Festival of the Book Virginia Film Festival Virginia Humanities Woodbrook Elementary Writer House
H I G H L I G H T I NG OUR S TUDE NT S
“As a rising senior this has been an especially valuable experience both in terms of fimmaker training and in that it was a wonderful group of young people working together and coming from different schools and backgrounds.”
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Film Festival Awards
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Film Festival Acceptances
1,427
scholarships totalling $109,175
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of students attend for free or reduced tutition
FINANCIALS
Allocation of funds
Programs (70%) Fundraising (14%) Operations(9%) Admin (7%)
Sources of Funding Grants, foundations, & collaborations (41%) Donations and Events (31%) Tuition (28%)