ASSOCIATE MEMBER - First Level
Cost: $60 per year
Associate Member Benefits:
- Receive weekly e-bulletin
- Post free listings of their productions screenings in the e-bulletin
- Entitled to members' rates on workshops and courses
- Receive all mailings
- Entitled to members' admission rate for LIFT screenings
- Entitled to discounts at various film service companies
- Inclusion on LIFT's online Cast and Crew Listings
- Ability to submit screenplays for a LIFT OUT LOUD reading
- Ability to attend LIFT's Screenwriters Circle
- After 6 months in good standing, member is entitled to apply for the LIFT Production Support Program (announced yearly)
After completing eight (8) hours of volunteering* Associate members are then able to gain access to equipment:
- Rent production and post-production equipment at Associate Member rates
- Priority booking of production and post-production equipment two (2) weeks in advance
*Note: There is a buy-out option for volunteer hours at a rate of $10 per hour. To reach obtain rental status, one can either volunteer, buy-out, or complete a combination of both.
Upgrading to Full Membership
Any Associate member in good standing may become a Full member by completing an additional eight (8) hours of volunteer* work and paying an additional fee of $60.00 (please note: when upgrading you will still expire at your original expiry date).
Thereafter, maintenance of the Full Membership requires sixteen (16) hours of volunteer* work every year, plus an annual$120.00 membership fee.