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Hi, my name is Steve Cossman, and I want to
tell you about a special project I am working

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on for the last decade called Mono No Aware.

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Mono is a cinema arts non profit organization
and educational initiative, currently without

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a home.

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With this kickstarter, we are looking to acquire
a space to continue our efforts and, thanks

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to several recent donations, we have the incredible
opportunity to open the nation's first and

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only non profit motion picture laboratory
dedicated to filmmakers and artists of the

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moving image.

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I started this organization ten years ago
in my living room around the idea of the cinema

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as a space for shared experience, a space
for the exchange of ideas, and a platform

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for many voices.

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Now Mono has become a vibrant, energetic community
of amazing people from around the world.

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Mono empowers people.

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Mono empowered me to kind of like, believe
that could also make a film.

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Its about the people.

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I mean the people at Mono No Aware are great.

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Something that has always drawn me to Mono
is it's educational outreach.

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Specifically the low-cost and accessibility
associated with it.

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Well I think Mono is really important for
the world.

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Every year we offer affordable filmmaking
workshops, hold monthly screenings.

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Take cinema-themed field trips.

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We distribute film stock, make equipment accessible,
maintain a reference library

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that is

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open

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to the public,