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Brown N White:  The Heart of Bona's Basketball
 
Set against the backdrop of massive disruption in college athletics today, Brown and White: The Heart of Bona’s Basketball, is the timeless story about the smallest NCAA division one college basketball program, St. Bonaventure, as it breaks through racial barriers rising to national prominence — achieving an undefeated regular season in ’68 (during one of the most turbulent times in our nation), reaching the Final Four, winning the NIT, taking Kentucky to double OT in the NCAA tournament, falling into national scandal, and ultimately, rebounding into national relevance.
 
Why Brown N White?  
 
As my college English Professor and mentor, Dr. James "Big Daddy" Martini might say, "Show.  Don't tell."    Or as Saint Francis would say, "use words only when necessary."  Please watch Brown N White ... 
 
 
Our research partner, SBU ARCHIVES, unearthed this telegram below whose significance is best understood when placed in historical context.   
 
By 1967, the Kinzua dam erected on Seneca territory, displaced 600 Senecas from sacred land, the Vietnam War came to a boil, race riots erupted in 159 cities across the United States ... and the St. Bona's Brown Indians integrated basketball team posted a perfect 22-0 regular season record prompting this telegram arriving on campus March 22, 1968 from U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.  It was shared with elected student government leaders.
 
 
So many pieces of St. Bona's great achievements are yet to be told such as the 1968 Undefeated regular season Bonnies led by Captain Bill Butler.
 
 

Our vision is to ensure future graduates ensure they know what it means to be a Bonnie, yet there's more to our lofty ambitions when it comes to making a movie.  We want educators across the U.S. today to have the right tools to meet Gen Z (ages 14-22) needs fostering young minds to solve the problems of their time.  Our research shows this is the most social justice oriented cohort to come along since the 1960s ... and they like sports!  US historian for LBJ, Doris Kearns Goodwin, would agree the role of history is to inform future generations to help acquire the necessary skills to cultivate leadership, team work, resulting in building stronger communities.  Education is the great equalizer and behind Lyndon Johnson's 1965 Act of Higher Education.  

In addition to airing nationally on PBS in 2025 we will employ an Impact Media campaign, host screenings across the country in partnership with our sponsors, SBU's 32 alumni chapters and a theater or classroom near you!

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$5,000 - Associate Producer

$10,000 - Producer

$25,000 - Executive Producer 

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

Looking to reach audiences in Tier 1 markets across North America?   PBS is the #1 trusted source for information with a highly educated audience (most PhDs) and HHI.  PBS viewers are engaged in Youth activities and involved in their communities.  Thanks to a new partnership, airing in the US can now include the entire Canadian territory, thus, your company can reach millions across North America for a fraction of service.  A limited number of slots for Corporate Underwriting are available.  Sponsorship stays with the program for the life of the program and is a unique tax-deductible Win-Win-Win partnership for your business.  Contact us directly 518.441.5300 or [email protected] to learn more about the impact from Corporate Underwriting can bring to your company or foundation. 

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For a contribution of $500 or more, list your name in the closing credit under "Special Thanks."  From The Heart Productions is a 501(c) charitable organization making all donations tax-deductible.  Matching gifts and stock donations are possible.   Donations made by check take a little longer to reach us, however, a higher % goes to the film.  Donations of any amount can be made on-line.  Contributions of $500 or more, please consider paying by check, or covering credit card fees.  
 
Make donation payable to:  FROM THE HEART
Write the following in the Memo:  Heart of Bona's
Mail to:      From the Heart
                  1013 Harbor Blvd.  
                  Oxnard, CA 93035
Any questions, please contact filmmaker, Mike Camoin directly [email protected] 518.441.5300 c
 
A Short Message from Elmer Anderson
 
 
 
ABOUT FILMMAKER MIKE CAMOIN

Bona grad, Mike Camoin, may be better known for his commercial "Experience The Thrill" for his client Bona Venture Stables that plays in the Reilly Center during half-time, yet  Producer / Director / Cinematographer aka filmmaker Mike Camoin is best known for his documentary Inside the Blue Line: Leadley’s Legacy, the story of an aging Adirondack woodsman’s hunt to preserve the wilderness.  His documentaries on Adirondacks have aired in the northeast on PBS-TV and Canada and The Battles of Saratoga DVD is in classrooms.  In 2021, his production company,  Videos For Change Productions, produced the documentary Sallie Mae Not: Exposing America's Student Loan Scam which won the Whistleblowers Summit & Film Festival's Audience Choice Award.  In 2011, Camoin was invited to Generation Campus in Russia where his short film RELAX shot on S16mm premiered.  Upon returning back to the US, Camoin launched the Northeast Filmmakers Lab which celebrated its 10th edition.  In 1995, Camoin led the independent film movement in northeastern New York co-founding Upstate Independent Filmmakers Network, a salon of the Association of Independent Video and Film (AIVF).  In 2003, Camoin spurred talks to fuel New York’s first Film Tax rebate program to prevent runaway productions.  He studied directing with Judith Weston and has served various roles on feature films that have screened at Cannes, Toronto and Sundance serving on such award-winning films AS YOU ARE,  WE THE ANIMALS, HBO Films MUHAMMAD  ALI’s  GREATEST  FIGHT  and  Derek Cianfrance's  THE  PLACE BEYOND THE PINES starring Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendez and Bradley Cooper.   He is in post-production on the documentary Brown N White:  The Heart of Bona’s Basketball.

EXPERIENCE THE THRILL

 
 
See other clips and our previous successful Phase One Crowd-funding campaign now concluded which launched Brown n White (aka "Project Unfurl").  
 

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