Help a cool filmmaker, Amanda Mazzanti
One of my “$30 Film School” students, Amanda Mazzanti, is making this very worthwhile documentary
http://www.digitalady.com/maya.html
and traveling to Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to do it.
She needs donations, and you should consider helping her. She has a fiscal sponsor, so you get a tax write off if you do. Donation info here.
From her website:
Women Supporting Women
Amanda Mazzanti, Northern California filmmaker, is working in conjunction with Executive Director of The Equilibrium Fund, Erika Vohman, to capture the individual, economic, and environmental benefits of The Maya Nut Program.
Why, The Maya Nut Program?
One saturday afternoon I found myself at dinner listening to my mom talk about a woman from Davis, California who ‘picked up a nut’ in Guatemala, brought it back to the states to have it analyzed- and ‘discovered it’s true worth!’ Soon to be discovered, this woman was Erika Vohman, founder of The Maya Nut Program- which has trained over 7,000 women from 320 communities since 2002! It was a magical story, and left me inspired. I went home and researched it, and found nothing, except for the trail Erika has left on her website and sponsors of the program.