Thanks to Mike Dennis of ReelBlack for amplifying our feature film costume drama on Lewis Latimer. We are currently crowdfunding for $35,000 to complete the final stages of research and development. Community support is key. Please watch and then click on this link to make a tax deductible donation. If you prefer to make a tax deductible donation via check, please make a check out to Extended Play Inc. and put “HipCinema Lewis Latimer Film Project” in the memo line. Then send the check to Extended Play Inc., 217 Pelham Road, Philadelphia PA 19119.
The total budget for RECLAIMING THE LIGHT: THE LIFE & TIMES OF LEWIS LATIMER is $860,000. By supporting this crowdfunding campaign, we can show funders and sponsors that there is a need and a demand for projects that show the real history of Reconstruction from an African American perspective. After Enslavement and the end of the Civil War in 1865, Black Americans burst onto the national stage with creativity, innovation, and power to build churches, schools, hospitals, towns, businesses, newspapers, banks, you name it! Lewis Latimer and his wife Mary Latimer are an example of how through mutual aid and collective action Black Americans were able to achieve the impossible.
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