Each year, Deaf Spotlight welcomes brand collaborators that share a passion and connection to cinema, performing arts and art & design to partner and align with our mission and activities. Whether you want to make a big splash at our biennial Seattle Deaf Film Festival, or create a year-round impact with Deaf Spotlight’s activities, we can customize an engaging partnership package with an array of activation opportunities designed to support your marketing, entertainment, and community investment goals.

For questions regarding sponsorship and corporate support please contact: sponsor@deafspotlight.org

Sponsorship is an opportunity to amplify your brand and values while uplifting Deaf Spotlight, one of very few Deaf-led arts nonprofits on the West Coast. Your sponsorship of certain events or programming needs helps Deaf Spotlight advance its mission to inspire and showcase Deaf Culture and Sign Languages through the arts. 

We recently shifted to a Community-Centric Fundraising model, meaning we no longer use tiered sponsorship levels. We believe each sponsor, whether their budgets are under six figures or over $50M, is indispensable to our mission.

Deaf Spotlight is currently seeking sponsors for our 7th Biennial Seattle Deaf Film Festival (SDFF). Please apply by February 28, 2024.

Sponsorship Benefits 

RECOGNITION

• Your logo and website link on our SDFF website for one year

• Your logo on program books and digital materials for all SDFF programming

• Your logo featured, on separate standalone posts, on social media channels

• Two free passes to Seattle Deaf Film Festival (April 2024) (in person or virtual)

EXPOSURE

Social media: Deaf Spotlight has active accounts on Facebook (nearly 6,000 followers) and Instagram (4,500 followers). We primarily use organic vs. paid ad reach, opting to grow our follower base through meaningful, sustained interactions. Followers comprise Deaf, hard of hearing, DeafBlind, and hearing demographics of all ages in the Pacific Northwest, but also across the U.S. and internationally.

Festival attendance: In prior years, SDFF welcomed over 800 audience members in-person at Northwest Film Forum. In the 2022 SDFF, we curated submissions and screened 30 shorts and four feature films streaming for 630 virtual attendees in 10 countries.

For more information, please email our Sponsorship Team at sponsor@deaflight.org. 

Deaf Spotlight is a 501c(3) non-profit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible.