Becoming an I + N Friend is an excellent way to support our initiatives while enjoying the benefits of members of the Film Festival in addition to having privileged access to Festival + screenings and special events throughout the year.

When you become an I + N Friend, you make a valuable contribution to a registered charity that does important work in the LGBTQ + community throughout the year.

Choose your membership package to enjoy your films as you wish as image + nation comes to your home in 2020!

• Watch the best LGBTQ + movies from here and around the world
• Share your stories with your friends and family by donating tickets
• Show your support for image + nation activities throughout the year
• Receive member-only discounts, invitations and giveaways
• Get a partial tax receipt at each membership level

Different ways to become friends of image + nation:

Volunteer matching encourages service in the communities where employees live and work by providing cash grants to organizations where employees regularly volunteer. National Bank, TD Bank and many other banks offer these initiatives. So ask your employer for more information! image & nation is an organization which operates on a voluntary basis and which relies each year on the generous donation of time of its precious volunteers.

Here's what your support does:

• To help maintain an event that promotes and preserves the diversity, intersectionality and inclusiveness of Queer speech and community.
• Share LGBTQ + stories with your friends, family, colleagues - share queer stories with the people you love.
• To see remarkable LGBTQ + films from Quebec, Canada and around the world during the I + N film festival, throughout the year with our Festival + programming and during special events.
• To support new initiatives to disseminate LGBTQ + stories around the world.
• Help defend future talented Quebec filmmakers by encouraging local production initiatives.
• To bring international filmmakers to Montreal so that they can share their stories with our audience.
• Receive member-only discounts, preview invitations and be the first to discover new queer stories.

Each donation will be rewarded with either an [I + N ami.e program], or a tax receipt that reflects your one-time or monthly donation.

image + nation queer culture is:

• A unifying event, where we can share our stories.
• Year-round presence thanks to our new online platform and our future plans for a fairer representation of contemporary LGBTQ + lives and realities - all with an emphasis on accessibility and sharing of these stories.
• A networking hub that contributes to the creation and production of our stories - in our image - through our collaboration with respected institutions and professionals who feed our international series I + N Explore (dedicated to exploration contemporary queer narrative).
• An engine of change whose goal is to make our stories available and accessible to all; that they are listened to, heard and shared.

Partnering with image & nation means contributing to the creation of a society in which our lives and our stories are an integral part of the social fabric.

image & nation offers different ways to participate in our mandate: to present new queer stories to the general public, local and international. Here's how:

• Monetary or service corporate sponsorship
• Corporate or individual donations
• Community partnerships
• Film sponsorship: (FILM +) organize “cinema” evenings for your employees
• Promotion / Print, digital or screen advertising
• Advertising

We will be very happy to discuss with you for a tailor-made option, more suited to your brand, so that it too can shine with image + nation. For more information about our work and how we might collaborate, please contact Charlie Boudreau at the following email address: charlie@image-nation.org.