Sust Enable: The Metamentary is a non-profit collective filmmaking
endeavor designed to produce an artistic non-fiction film and
filmmaking process for the purpose of sustainability education and community
empowerment.
How to Donate
1. You can donate via Paypal (Note: PayPal takes a 2.9% fee from every donation):
2. Non-tax deductible donations
If you’d like to make a donation and don’t prefer tax deductible status, and you’d like
100% of your contribution to go to support the film, please contact our production manager Luke Ohlson at luke [at] sust-enable [dot] com.
Why Donate?
Here are just some of the reasons why you may wish to support our film:
- independent
- artistically breaking edge
- mostly-women crew
- collaborative + inclusive ethic
- local to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- consensus-based collective crew organization
- focused on personal and community empowerment
- committed to raising awareness about sustainability
- committed to embodying sustainability principles throughout our processes
When you give to Sust Enable, you are:
- contributing to authentic sustainability education for thousands of people
- enabling community-supported, in(ter)dependent, grassroots documentary filmmaking and creative innovation
- helping bring about a new model for “sustainable filmmaking”, that is ethically founded on consent, cooperation, collaboration, and a holistic interpretation of film’s effects in the real world
Sustainability education
This innovative film project has the potential to go beyond simplistic claims of “sustainability” that populate our mainstream media. We hope to make important emerging theories about sustainability more accessible to general audiences by translating the theories into an artfully-told and emotionally-impacting story. Through Sust Enable, we seek to equip people with the conceptual tools to name, identify and evaluate sustainability principles in all aspects of life, and challenge them to join into defining sustainability within their own lives and communities.
Community-supported independent filmmaking
Making an investigative documentary that challenges popular claims and assumptions about “sustainability” means that it has been challenging for us to raise money from traditional sources. Yet we believe that it is up to people, not policymakers, to define sustainability. We are a collective crew of young people (some of whom are long-time activists) who are continually inspired and changed by our conversations about sustainability. We feel it is so important to make a film that authentically explores the emerging social discourse around “what does sustainability mean?” expressing the voices and wisdoms of people, not corporations or governments. We believe that the more people deeply engage with questioning the meaning of sustainability in our everyday lives, the more viable a sustainable world really becomes. And that is why we are doing what we are doing. We rely on our community of equally passionate supporters to make Sust Enable come to life.
A model for sustainable filmmaking
Sust Enable: The Metamentary will confront the massively wasteful and sometimes destructive film industry standards by innovating a new approach to filmmaking that is founded on the idea of holistic film–that a film is much more than just a 90-minute product that screens in theaters–rather, a film is best interpreted by its complex effects in the real world. In this model, a film is viewed as a dynamic process from conception to beyond distribution that encodes AND modifies the filmmakers’ beliefs and the beliefs of those who encounter the film, as interviewees, characters, or audience members. We believe that documentary films are active in the world–they can and should foster reflection, discussion, and catalyze social change. A sustainable film would embody its message and ethics at all levels of the film’s creation, including the story, the style, and its production processes in the world.
If you share our values, and like what we’re all about, please support today!