Without an arts curriculum in their schools, these children receive through SIFFY a hands on educational experience in filmmaking, from start to finish, with the guidance of our international filmmakers. To us, those are the reasons to give.

There is an intangible here as well: the magic of SIFFY. The community of Skopelos pulls together with our donors and volunteers to provide the SIFFY experience each year. When the community gets involved, everyone thrives. It’s a win-win in every direction.

Here are even more reasons to give:

• Past participants have gone on to study filmmaking.

• Many of the past participants are now volunteers for the festival.

• We have more than 60 volunteers each year and the number keeps growing.

• We have built a reputation to attract high quality filmmakers that love working with children.

• Private donors have continued to support us because they know the difference we make for our participants.

• We have grown from 22 children to over 100 children each year.

• Many films have won awards and have been accepted into 55 festivals throughout the world.

• We have been able to send children to other festivals in America, Spain and South Korea.