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Mr. Sossa from Springfield, MA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Cinema Sunset: Film Festival

My students need 3 digital video cameras to complete a variety of film projects to increase student engagement, creativity, and means of expression.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Sossa's classroom raised $680

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Lacking a high school school arts program, my students have joined Cinema Sunset, our school's film club. Students come to learn about film studies and watch movies. But now it is time to put our knowledge to the test. Help them turn their passion into art.

My students are from a struggling city.

They face many issues at home and around town but our school is a place of safety and opportunity for them. As members of the film club (open to grades 6-12), my students are an enthusiastic bunch. Many are members of the school play and many find joy on the screen or in a book. They want to learn and they want to create.

My Project

These digital cameras will help our school's film club turn their knowledge about film studies (mise en scene, camera movement, and film analysis) and put it to work in their own films. Students will write movies from particular genres (drama, comedy, horror, etc.) and begin to create their own films. Students will have to write, cast their own stars, direct, shoot, and edit their films. Cinema Sunset members will be writing their films in the upcoming months. During our short week of Intensives (a 3-4 day period where our school puts things on pause and offers a variety of electives for our students to choose from) students will shoot and begin to edit their movies using these digital cameras.

My students do not have access to cameras such as these.

The only art program offered to our students when they enter high school is Drama Class. Our school plays allow our students to perform on stage, but we want to take it a step further and create a place for students to engage in filmmaking. These cameras will open up the first filmmaking program in our school's history.

Mr. Sossa Springfield Renaissance School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sony DCRSX85B DCR-SX85 Handycam 16GB 60X Optical Flash Camcorder Black • Amazon $179.95 3 $539.85

Materials cost

$539.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$577.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$101.99

Total project goal

$679.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $679.94

6 Donors

-$569.89

Donations toward project cost

-$492.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$76.94

match offer

-$100.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$85.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.05

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 $0.00

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