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Using the Power of Film to Inspire Social Transformation

Our mission is to effectively and efficiently educate and elevate a harmonious voice in creating legislation that protects vulnerable young adults suffering from mental illness. Your donation is 100% tax deductible and will support the completion of the film, while using press to bring our mission to the public. 

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Lieber Institute For Brain Development

Powerful conversation after returning to The Leiber Institute For Brain Development eight years after donating his son Gio's brain.  

Interview with Thomas Hyde MD. Ph.d., Chief Medical Officer at Leiber Institute for Brain Development  in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Hyde is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. . https://www.libd.org/

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In The News: Lieber Institute and Gio

The price we pay in making a difference goes a long way.

About The Film

Three years in the making, we are pleased to announce the FIRST Documentary feature film of its kind. After the catastrophic loss of his son Gio, http://gioinitiative.org  Award winning filmmaker Robert Manganelli takes us on a powerful cinematic journey into the soul of man."We Were Here," is titled

from a note Gio wrote as a child. 


By turning his lens onto other bereaved fathers, Manganelli's own map comes into clear focus and leads him to his cinematic purpose - from shattering to mattering. 


As you may know making a feature documentary is an expensive process. This film so far has been primarily self funded, with significant support and donations from family and friends. 


Your donation will allow us to get the message out to the masses. 

Your support is immeasurable in insuring the completion of the film.


Please consider us when making your end of  the year charitable giving.   


Your donation is 100% tax deducible. TaxID: EIN 26-4664688

REEL FATHERS, 501-c-3

6 Torneo Court  

Sante Fe, New Mexico 87508


Please write "We Were Here" in the message box under your donation, 

along with your name so your donation posts to us and so we can send you a personal thank you gift.


Your support means the world to us and the project, to thank you we will be adding your name to the film's credits. 


Donations of $5000.00 or more will recieve producer credit.

What your funding supports

  • Finalize the production, pay for the Utah production of  mens medicine retreat with the fathers 
  •  Pay our editor for post production 
  • PR agency -Press Release
  • Legal Counsel
  • Festival Submissions

  


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"WE WERE HERE" is a critically important and timely film about the wisdom of trauma in catastrophic loss. Alexander Payne Two time Academy Award Winner

My goal in making this film is to put a human face on a social condition.


ROBERT MANGANELLI - FILMMAKER

https://www.libd.org/families/#Gianni%20Manganelli

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From Shattering to Mattering.

Kintsugi:  Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. A wound becomes a thing of beauty.  


Embrace the pain. 

Mend. 

What's broken is gold






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