We hope to raise $50.000 by February 28th, 2023, to keep Cinephilia & Beyond independent and free.
As a non-profit, individual donors are the backbone of all that we do.
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For the past ten years, Cinephilia & Beyond has been committed to creating an online safe haven for cinephiles from all across the globe. We invested a lot of energy, time and resources into building a unique place on the Internet aimed at celebrating the art and craft of filmmaking, a free-for-all oasis that radiates nothing but pure adoration of cinema.
In the course of our decade-long passion project, we published hundreds of film analyses and presentations enriched with incredibly rare, priceless material such as screenplays, storyboards, BTS photos and more. During that time, Cinephilia & Beyond has grown into a special community of film lovers who share a common passion regardless of what places in the world, or life, they come from.
From an enthusiastic little film blog, Cinephilia & Beyond transformed into a full-blooded, Croatian-based independent website fully dedicated to cinema. This couldn’t have been achieved without your relentless support. As a non-profit, individual donors are integral to all we do. Now finally under the roof of our very own non-profit organization – Close-Up, the Initiative for the Promotion of Film Culture – we’re determined more than ever to continue exploring the world of filmmaking and expanding our reach.
In order to create and maintain a website all of you deserve, we hope to raise $50.000 by February 28th, 2023, from all the beloved patrons and members of our community. With this budget, we want to publish at least 70 long-form articles offering in-depth analyses of great films accompanied by fascinating, jaw-dropping rare materials, uncover unbelievable hidden scripts from across the globe scanned and presented to you in the typical C&B fashion, build up a website that would serve as a beacon of curiosity, knowledge and thirst for culture and, most importantly, continue to work our ass off to keep one of the last free and independent online treasure troves alive, healthy and available to all readers.
If you like what we do and appreciate our passion for keeping film culture thriving, please consider donating. Your generosity preserves film knowledge for future generations. We’ll do our best to justify your vote of confidence.
You can also become a member, joining the loyal readers who make Cinephilia & Beyond possible with a recurring monthly donation of your choosing. When you commit to a monthly donation, you enable us to plan for the future by having a steady source of projected income to expand our website with great new projects and continually provide new content.
To make a donation via bank wire transfer, use the information below:
Bank name: Erste&Steiermärkische Bank d.d.
Street address of the bank: Jadranski trg 3A, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Country: CROATIA
Bank’s SWIFT code: ESBCHR22
Beneficiary name: KRUPNI PLAN, INICIJATIVA ZA PROMOCIJU FILMSKE UMJETNOSTI
Beneficiary address: Rujanska 4, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Beneficiary account: HR5924020061101068664
Payment detail: Very important to include the words “donation for the Cinephilia and Beyond project” while making the donation
Here’s a rough breakdown of our yearly costs:
$30.000 will be spent on paying our resident authors, guest authors, editors and designers in order to produce top-notch articles for your everyday deep dives.
$10.000 will be spent on acquiring rare film material for us to prepare and present to you.
$5.000 will be spent on basic costs of keeping the website functioning online: server, domain name, maintenance, accounting services and other technological or IT services needed.
$5.000 will be used in marketing, to expand C&B’s reach on social networks with the goal of reaching as many curious, knowledge-seeking cinephiles across the world as we possibly can.
“Come on, folks. Send $. I have for years and sent more just now. There is no publication like this. Not anywhere. Focused on craft. Focused on Art. Not Box Office or gossip, just films. Pure. That is worth $20+ a month. We cannot lose Cinephilia and Filmstruck in the same year.”
—James Mangold
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—Guillermo del Toro
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—Edgar Wright
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—Scott Beck & Bryan Woods
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