A community screening happens when an organization, school, company or group of friends or colleagues host a local screening of a film, creating an opportunity for a film to be watched together in a public or private setting. Community screenings are a great way to connect with your colleagues, neighbors, professional network, or broader community to spark conversation and empower individuals to take action on the themes of the film.
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Screening FAQs
Yes! Many community screenings are open to the public, but you’re also welcome to host a screening for a specific audience—teachers seeking professional development, parents looking for ways to support their kids, colleagues at a company, or members of a nonprofit working on issues like voting, AI, data, or public policy.
If you’d like to screen the film privately for your staff, faculty, colleagues, organizational membership, board of directors, or any other group, you’ll follow the same steps you would for a public event.
Counted Out is 91 minutes long. We recommend setting aside an additional 10 minutes at the top of your program for introductory remarks and housekeeping, and at least 30 minutes for a facilitated discussion (or group math activities!) following the screening. Most screening hosts allow 2 to 2.5 hours in total for their events.
Yes! We can provide closed captions and Spanish subtitles to help make your screening accessible to more attendees. The film is also available with Japanese, Romanian, Bosnian, and Portuguese subtitles, as well as a Portuguese-dubbed version.
Counted Out is suitable for audiences of all ages. The content is accessible and thoughtfully presented, making it a valuable experience for viewers from young students to adults. Like many independent films, we don’t have an MPAA rating, but if we did, it would be G. (That said, very young children will likely get wiggly; we think students 10 and up will find it most compelling.)
Any space equipped with a projector, a screen, and seating for your audience is ideal for screening our film. We encourage you to think broadly about potential venues — libraries, dining halls, conference rooms, event spaces, auditoriums, media centers, movie theaters, churches, classrooms, and even unconventional spaces can all work wonderfully. The key is a comfortable setting where attendees can enjoy the film together.
Anytime! You pick the date, and we will provide everything as soon as your application is filled out and payment is received. That said, if your screening is public and you’ll be inviting a broad swath of attendees, we recommend allowing at least two weeks to do adequate promotion.
Once your screening is booked, we provide the following items. All you need to bring is the audience.
- Event registration page to use for inviting attendees
- Facilitation call with Vicki Abeles, the film’s director, to discuss how to shape the post-film conversation and best prepare for your event
- Film streaming link for a one-time event
- Facilitation guide
- Promotional materials including posters, flyers, an outreach guide, a press kit, and a social media toolkit
We recommend you invite someone from your community to lead the conversation. This way it can be tailored to the specific topics and issues that are a priority for your audience or organization. We provide a facilitation guide and the opportunity to join a facilitator training call to support and prepare your event’s facilitator.
Absolutely. Our favorite way to preview is to attend a screening! If you can’t find one near you, the film is available to rent on Eventive.
All you need to do is fill out a screening application to share the details for your event.
Within the screening application is your licensing agreement, which is the paperwork you need to be able to legally screen the film. (If you rent a cinema or show the film in a library or school, you’ll need this paperwork to show you’ve gotten permission to screen the film.) Once we receive your application and payment, our team will set up your event page and send you all the resources you will need within 1 to 3 business days.
Yes. We charge a licensing fee for each screening so we can support our work to bring the film out into the world, develop partnerships to broaden our reach and message, and create resources and toolkits to support grassroots change. As an independent film, we don’t have the backing of studios or corporate distributors, so we rely on these fees to sustain the film’s ongoing outreach and social impact.
We accept credit card payments, which can be made right in your application. We cannot accept checks.
We recommend giving yourself at least 15 days of planning time to get organized and promote the event within your community. For some events where there is already a gathering planned that the film can fit into, preparation time can be shorter. To optimize promotion time for a larger, public event, you may want to allow more like 3-6 weeks.Frequently including event information in newsletters, email blasts, social media posts, and community newspapers in the weeks before an event can be immensely helpful in drawing a good crowd.)
Each license to screen the film is good for a single screening. If you plan more than one screening, we will provide custom pricing. Please contact us for more information.
Yes! We’re excited to support deeper engagement through post-film conversations led by the director or others featured in the film. If you’re interested in exploring this option, please reach out to us to discuss availability and details.
Contact us at lynsey@countedoutfilm.com or 510-982-4764
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