Screenings of the Immigrant Garden

The Immigrant Garden has raised $16,485 for charity so far.

The Best way to do this is to get an organization selling tickets and promoting the show. When we did that in Kelso in this last January, we not only sold out, we had to schedule an extra showing.

The Immigrant Garden was first a national award winning stage play, written against all probability by Longview, Washington bookshop owner Caroline Wood. It was her first ever play, but it went on to be performed Off Broadway in New York. As impressive as that story is, it might have ended there. But it didn't. Veteran Film Producer C. Tad Devlin, living in the small farming community of Chehalis, Washington, began teaching at a local college, where he was introduced to Wood's play. The Play became a class project, which grew into a community project, which grew into a feature length motion picture.

The Immigrant Garden is a funny, sensitive, and uplifting story of Cecily Barnes, a teenage girl growing up in a rural Washington community of the early 1900s. While her friends dream about a future marriage, or the right to vote, Cecily is preoccupied with larger questions of who she is, and why her mother had died when she was three. In a world where everyone else has plans for her, Cecily feels alone and separate from others, until one day she discovers a packet of Mrs. Beauchamp's flower seeds sent all the way from London, England in the basement of Mr. Walks' dry goods store. She then begins a correspondence, through which Cecily explores not only the world of flowers, weeds, and slugs, but her own inner world as well. As her pen and ink relationship with Mrs. Beauchamp grows, Cecily begins to learn who she is, and in doing so begins to accept others for who they are.

The fund-raiser works like this: You provide a location 250-500 seats, (a theater, a gym, an auditorium, or other place where it can be shown). We recommend a Friday 6:30PM and 8:30PM Showing and a Saturday 12 Noon Senior Special, followed by a 2PM, 4PM, 6PM and 8PM Screening. Assuming 300 seats, this allows for the sale of 2100 tickets total for the weekend. If sold out additional screening dates can be added.

You provide us with the name address telephone number and hours of 3 or 4 places where tickets may be purchased, and the organization(s) who will be selling tickets. (Share of the box office proceeds is in proportion to the organization's ticket sales.) After we agree on available dates, we print and provide tickets, fliers, tickets-for-sale, and provide posters. For larger Immigrant Garden posters, you pay cost of duplication, or you arrange donated enlargement/printing to our specifications.

We provide a press kit, 5 video and 6 radio service announcements. THESE REMAIN OUR PROPERTY AND MUST BE RETURNED (A reimbursement fee of $25 is charged for each item not returned). You organize publicity and sales with the CDs Video tape and press kit we send you.

At the Screening: We provide the print of The Immigrant Garden, a projector, and projectionist. (Also a screen and/or sound system if required) You provide location, ticket takers, ushers, and concession stand. For more information contact sales@northwestfilm.com.