meet the speakers
Dan Parris and David Peterka speak on October 14.
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DAN PARRIS
Filmaker, Speakup Productions
Dan Parris is a Speakup Productions filmmaker/activist/goofball whose lingering questions after returning from Africa serves as the fuel for his upcoming film Give A Damn? Dan has a B.A. in Film Production from Biola University and is currently pursuing the dream he has had for nearly a decade, to make feature films that will have ground-breaking impact in the world.
DAVID PETERKA
President, The Global Justice Project
David Peterka is the President of The Global Justice Project, a local awareness and advocacy group concerned with matters of injustice and oppression around the world. David's goal in life is to instill passion for injustice in the hearts of those around him. As Associate Producer, he is the unseen strength behind the feature length documentary, Give A Damn?
SPEAKUP PRODUCTIONS COMPANY
Speakup Productions (www.speakupproductionsco.com) is a film company formed to give voice to those experiencing injustice who are not being herd. The company currently has two films in process:
Give a Damn? in pre-production
A feature length documentary inspired by the questions we are all asking about extreme poverty.
At its heart, it is a story about two very different friends who both believe the other has a skewed view on what their responsibility is to the extreme poor living in this world. Dan has been to one of the poorest places on Earth and thinks about the people he saw every time he gets a cup of coffee because he knows how far that money could go. While Rob, the offensive, politically incorrect friend, thinks Dan is an idealistic fool that has an "I want save the world" complex. The documentary will begin with their unusual friendship, and follow them as they get the average American's opinions on their responsibility to third world poverty, as they drill the intellectuals on the forefront of these issues, and ultimately as they buy a van and travel Africa getting a firsthand account from Africans themselves on what their responsibility should be to the half of the world that lives on $2 a day or less.
Throughout the process they will do various case studies, such as buying a $4 coffee in the US and then juxtaposing that with how far $4 can go in an African slum. Overall, the goal of the film is to bring the plight of the world's poorest to the hearts of Americans, and particularly American youth.
Beneath our Feet in post-production
Beneath Our Feet is a documentary about street children in the Ukraine that live underground that have formed a community and in some ways a replacement family for their own. This documentary explores the question of what happened between these kids and their families and in the end, what makes a family, a family?
Directed by Melissa Cobb.
ONLINE CONTRIBUTIONS
Give A Damn? is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions made through Fractured Atlas are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. To make an online tax deductible contribution visit https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/contribute/donate/1433.
(We are not setup to receive direct, non-deductible online contributions at this time).
Contributions by Check
Tax deductible contributions made by check should be made payable to "Fractured Atlas." This is necessary if you need the tax deduction for the contribution.
(Fractured Atlas is our fiscal sponsor, who receives 6% of the funds for overhead processing. If you don’t need the tax deduction, please make your check out to "Speak Up Productions LLC")
All checks (regardless of deductibility) should be mailed to the following address:
Speak Up Productions LLC
848 N. Rainbow Blvd #1415
Las Vegas, NV 89107
If you have any questions, please contact us at giveadamndoc@gmail.com.