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Carole Dean
Oxnard, ca
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Title/Occupation:  Executive  Writer 
Services Provided:  Foundations/Funding Source 
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian/White
Citizenship: USA
Languages Spoken: English

Brief Message to Members: 

The Roy W. Dean film grants are now open for 2012. Please see our website for full granting information. We give three grants a year, spring, summer and fall.
The second edition of The Art of Film Funding: Alternative Financing Concepts is due out in July. Some advanced copies are available.

Biography: 

As president and CEO of From the heart Productions, between 1994 to 1998 , Carole produced over 100 television programs, including the popular cable program, HealthStyles, where she interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry including, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Weil and Dr. Caroline Myss and sold these to Oasis Cable. Carole also created 30 Filmmaker shows that are now housed in the National Archives.

In 1992 Carole created the Roy W. Dean Grant Foundation in honor of her late father. To date Carole's grant and mentorship programs have provided filmmakers with millions of dollars in goods and services and have played an instrumental role in establishing the careers of some of the industry's most promising filmmakers. Each applicant gets a free personal consultation from Carole to improve their proposal or find financing.

A sought-after international speaker, Carole toured the U. S. with her popular books, "The Art of Film Funding: Alternative Financing Concepts" published by Michael Wiese Publications, teaching filmmakers how and where to find funding. Her newest book is for a wider audience, "The Art of Manifesting: Creating your Future" was created to enrich lives." Using your mind to fund your films is paramount to the process. This book has simple techniques and concepts to aid you in funding your film along with testimonies from successful filmmakers who use these concepts. Both of these books are now taught by Carole online through this site. They were created as a foundation for financing your film.

From the Heart has given over $2,000,000 since its inception. Carole has helped these documentarians to pursue their dreams from original donation of raw stock, lights and camera to the current spring, summer and fall film grants valued at over $30,000.00 each. In 2005 From the Heart began working for filmmakers as a Fiscal Sponsor using the 501 C (3) not for profit issued in 1992. Currently we have a contract with Indiegogo for fiscally sponsored films and teach crowdfunding.

Films sponsored by the Roy W. Dean grants now showing are "HEIST:Who Stole the American Dream and how we get it Back" The Winding Stream, still in production, "A Chance to Grow" on Discovery "Save A Man to Fight" on History, "The Flute Player" on PBS "Stolen" on Court TV, "Salvaged Lives", Discovery, "Homeland" and "Shakespeare Behind Bars" both on ITVS, "In My Corner", PBS, "The Tomato Effect", "Halstead Street", PBS, and "Double Dare" to mention a few. A full list of prior grant winners are on this page: http://www.fromtheheartproductions.com/grant-pastwinners.shtml

For more information on Carole Dean see www.caroledean.com