Filmanthropy
About Filmanthropy:
Filmanthropy is philanthropy through filmmaking. Philanthropists and filmmakers are brought together to produce socially relevant and impactful films via the Filmanthropy Fund of the Dallas Foundation. This partnership utilizes traditional and philanthropic business practices to produce and distribute films with a philanthropic mission and inspirational message. The mission of this fund is to produce films that raise awareness and generate funds for a cause. Contributions to the Filmanthropy Fund of The Dallas Foundation are tax-deductible.
Make A Movie With A Mission:
As filmmakers, we seek to harness the power of film to impact the lives of people in need. Join us and become a Filmanthropist. As such you will play an integral part in producing a movie with a mission. Filmanthropists provide the necessary funding to produce and market filmanthropy projects.
Opportunity:
M3 Films’ filmanthropy enhances conventional film production by utilizing traditional and philanthropic business practices to produce and distribute films with a philanthropic mission and inspirational message. The filmanthropy model produces films that generate funding and raise awareness for nonprofit, philanthropic ventures.
Executive Producer, Co-Producer and Associate Producer credits are available. Executive Producer credits are available across the Filmanthropy Project’s slate of films.
Current Film Slate:
The Man From Wharton
“The Man From Wharton” will be a full-length documentary exploring the life and legacy of award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Horton Foote.
In his lifetime Horton won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Academy Awards, an Emmy Award, numerous Tony nominations, and received the National Medal of Arts in 2000. He started writing plays in his early twenties and was still writing and producing them on Broadway when he died on March 4, 2009, at 93 years of age.
The backdrop of most of Horton’s stories is the town of Harrison, Texas, a fictitious version of his own hometown of Wharton.
The filmmakers were able to spend countless hours with Horton in his hometown the last three years of his life, and their film will attempt to show a rich and gifted career in which he crossed paths with scores of brilliant actors, directors and producers to make his bold mark on theater and film in both the 20th and 21st Centuries.
His work was consistently based on a world he knew inside and out, and the film will explore his remarkable ability to keep that world fresh and timely for seventy years of superb and luminous storytelling.
To participate in a Filmanthropy Project and the production of socially relevant and impactful films contact Melina McKinnon at 817-919-5569 or
melina@m3filmsllc.com.
For more information, please visit: http://m3filmsllc.com/
Stanley Marcus | The Documentary
"There are some who say that without Dallas, there would never have been a Neiman Marcus. Others, however, believe that without Neiman Marcus, there would have never been a Dallas."
-Art Buchwald
Stanley Marcus’ long, colorful, multi-faceted life earned him such titles as America’s Merchant Prince, The Melancholy Plato of Retailing, and international recognition as the arbiter of taste during his lifetime. In Mr. Stanley’s own words, “I have the simplest taste; I am always satisfied with the best.”
His genius for marketing Neiman Marcus not only transformed Dallas from a rough-and-tumble cotton market town into a Mecca of high fashion, it changed the face of retailing forever. His is a story that demands telling not only on the page, but on the screen. Set amongst glimpses of celebrities, the fabled Fortnight extravaganzas and Mr. Stanley’s eye for luxury, this extraordinary man’s successful quest to create the ultimate retail experience will come to life, including never-before-seen footage from the vast reservoir of Marcus archives housed in SMU’s DeGolyer Library.
Beyond style and exclusion, Stanley Marcus conspicuously sought a culture of inclusion, evidenced by his hiring, philanthropy, international perspective and community leadership. Ultimately, this moving portrait of the man behind “the store” will reveal the glamorous and dramatic relationship between Stanley Marcus and his beloved Dallas.
