We're aiming to crowd fund $25,000

Your contributions will directly fund Know How’s last stages of post-production; including the color correct, sound design & mixing, motion graphics, and the original score. We’ve also got stretch goals for how we’ll be able to transform foster care if we exceed our funding goal.

If we reach $50,000

We’ll be able to create a curriculum for schools and agencies to “teach the film” in the classroom, provide discussion points on the state of foster care in the United States, systemic issues, and potential solutions, and offer paths for individuals to successfully evoke change! Everyone who pledges $10 or more will also receive a strip of exclusive “Know How” stickers. Put them everywhere, give them to friends, and organize communities around the movement.

If we reach $100,000

The cast and creators of the film will go on tour, visiting agencies and foster care youth in cities around the United States. We’ll sit down after screenings to mobilize foster youth toward change, we’ll shoot short interviews with youth at screenings on the road, post them to our website, and get their voices heard as well. PLUS Everyone who pledges $25 or more will now get 2 T-shirts! One for you and one for a friend who is just as motivated to transform foster care.

Cinequest Film Festival (CQFF) in San Jose / Silicon Valley: Set in the home of the world’s most influential media technology companies (Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, LinkedIn etc.) CQFF showcases premier films, renowned and emerging artists, and breakthrough technology—empowering global connectivity between creators, innovators and audiences. Named best digital festival and a top 10 film festival (out of thousands) by the Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, CQFF has led the world in its showcase and implementation of the technologies that have revolutionized film making, exhibition and distribution.

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CQFF’s blend of the artist and innovator gains focus through its Maverick Awards. Its Maverick Spirit Awards recognizes artists (Harrison Ford, J.J. Abrams, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ben Kingsley, Kevin Spacey and Sir Ian McKellen are amongst the guest recipients). Its Maverick Innovator Award recognizes technologists (including Martin Cooper, father of the cell phone). A Maverick stands apart from the crowd willing to create and innovate from a place of personal yet global vision. 

Cinequest presents a dynamic 13-day event of 200 international films with over 700+ participating artists and innovators from 50 countries in attendance. Over 10,000 artists have attended CQFF to date.

Exhibiting unique social and artistic visions from around the globe, Cinequest’s dynamic festival engages audiences in thought-provoking dialogue, giving film artists and film lovers alike an opportunity to connect. Furthermore, Cinequest provides cutting edge technology and movie-making forums to empower professionals and students.

Although over 100,000 attend CQFF, the three-block proximity of its state-of-the-art venues along with Cinequest’s renowned hospitality, makes the festival experience as warm and personal as it is electrifying.

The Garden State Film Festival was born in 2002 after a chance encounter in a Sea Girt, New Jersey grocery store by 25- year film industry veteran Diane Raver and the well known Hollywood actor Robert Pastorelli.

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Through their deep ties to Hollywood, Mr. Pastorelli and Ms. Raver were able to bring an all encompassing event to the State of New Jersey. It premiered in 2003 and was immediately deemed a huge success.

Since that time, industry notables such as Glenn Close, Frank Vincent, Batman producer Michael Uslan, Austin Pendleton, Kurtwood Smith, James Gandolfini, Budd Schulberg, Clarence Clemons, Bruce Springsteen, Lainie Kazan, Diane Ladd and others have lent their support.