Thank You To Our Sponsors!

Each year, the Annual Artivist Film Festival and Artivist Awards is made possible through our partnerships with companies, organizations, and individuals, just like YOU, that care about building a progressive global community. By becoming a proud Sponsor, you directly impact the succesful growth and development of the annual "ARTIVIST".

There are few outlets for socially conscious filmmakers to share their work with large audiences. With your support, the Annual Artivist Film Festival will continue providing resources to these filmmakers, screening informative and inspirational films to a wider reaching audience.

Artivist featured Petrobras as it's "Official Community Partner."

Petrobras, a Brazilian company, is one of the largest distributors of Ethanol Fuel in the world. With a 30 year history of producing, distributing and using ethanol from sugar cane as fuel for vehicles. The Petrobras Environmental Program, is focused on water protection and biodiversity, supporting hundreds of projects that aim to recover the water bodies and sources, as well as that which promotes the rational use of water resources and environmental education. Petrobras is the only energy company that is part of the Global Compact Board of the UNITED NATIONS, committing its corporative government to the 10 principles set forth by the UN. Additionally, Petrobras is the largest funder of Cultural Arts Programs in Brazil, and a partner of various animal advocacy programs which include endangered sea turtles, the spinner dolphins, the manatees, and various save the whales programs.

Another sponsor, MITSUI & CO., LTD. ("Mitsui") is pursuing a wide variety of businesses worldwide, in partnership with the people of the regions in which we do business. Areas covered range from development of resources such as iron and steel raw materials, oil and gas, through to logistics and financial business, and on to personal items such as mobile phone contents, food and fashion items. Although we do business in a broad range of domains and provide a vast array of functions, our basic role remains the same-providing necessary goods and services to the people who need them.

 Additional sponsors of the Artivist film festival were: TIME-WARNER (www.timewarner.com), a media and entertainment company that takes pride in putting the public interest first; APOGEE INVENT DEVELOPMENT (www.apogeeinvent.com), leading engineers of sophisticated web applications; ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE (www.environmentaldefense.org), green campaigners working directly with businesses, governments and communities to find lasting solutions to environmental problems; IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS (www.idausa.org), advocates for the rights, welfare and habitats of animals; CINEQUEST (www.cinequest.org), a film institute that empowers the maverick by producing film festivals, a distribution channel, and providing mentoring and educational programs; MONTE NIDO TREATMENT CENTERS, (www.montenido.com), providing full treatment and rehabilitation to individuals struggling with eating disorders; and
KINDER-USA (www.kinderusa.org), a humanitarian organization dedicated to alleviating the suffering of children and their families worldwide.

Artivist is also grateful to its press release sponsor: MARKETWIRE for its generous media partnership.

The Artivist Film Festival & Artivist Awards is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and by the City of Los Angeles through its Department of Cultural Affairs.