Connecting our Community Celebration
Please join us as we honor remarkable individuals dedicated to engaging audiences of all ages through the power of film and inspiring a lifelong passion for cinema and media arts.
All proceeds from the Celebration will benefit the Jacob Burns Film Center’s film and education programs.
Monday, September 15, 2025
JBFC Theater
Pleasantville, NY
5:30 Reception • 7:00 Program • 8:00 Dinner
Cocktail Attire
Honorees
GINNY GOLD
David Swope Leadership Award
Ginny Gold brings a deep passion for our mission and an infectious enthusiasm for our programs. She and her beloved late husband, Marty, were among our founding supporters, united by a vision for the Burns to become both a cherished cultural institution and one of the nation’s leading nonprofit film and education centers. Ginny’s philanthropic foresight—paired with her steadfast commitment to enriching shared experiences and fostering deeper connection—played a vital role in bringing our Take 3 Wine Bar and Café to life in April 2024.
WILL REEVE
New Lens Award
Will Reeve is a New York-based ABC News correspondent, reporting for all platforms and shows including Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, and Nightline. At ABC News, he has reported on a variety of stories and topics from forty-one states, nine countries and counting. He created and is the face of Will Reeve: Finding My Father, a documentary from ABC News Studios featuring original enterprise reporting from the furthest reaches of Alaska and Baja, Mexico. The film retraces his father’s journey, visiting the same places his father traveled to 30 years ago, and features never-before-seen family home videos and photos from that time. Reeve serves on the board of directors of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, an organization founded by his late parents dedicated to finding cures for spinal cord injuries and providing quality of life care for those impacted by paralysis. Reeve is also an ambassador for Boys & Girls Clubs of America and is on the board of his middle school alma mater, the Rippowam Cisqua School in Bedford, New York. He lives in Brooklyn with his fiancée, Amanda.
JENNY RASKIN
GERALYN WHITE DREYFOUS
DAN COGAN
Vision Award
Impact Partners is dedicated to supporting independent documentary storytelling that entertains audiences, engages with pressing social issues, and propels the art of cinema forward. In 2007, Impact Partners pioneered a unique model of funding that brings together a community of investors with filmmakers to tell powerful stories about critical issues facing our world. Over the span of 18 years, Impact Partners has been involved in the financing of over 150 films, including Icarus, Sugarcane, 32 Sounds, Aftershock, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Of Fathers and Sons, Dina, How To Survive A Plague and Hell And Back Again.
Co-Chairs
ANN & WESTON HICKS
RON & CHERYL HOWARD
HEIDI & RICHARD RIEGER
ROCHELLE & MARK ROSENBERG
DIANE SAWYER
LEVELS OF SUPPORT
TABLES
| $25,000 | $15,000 | $10,000 |
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
| $2,500 | $1,000 |
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PLATINUM
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GOLD
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SILVER
$1,000
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BRONZE
$500
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For further information, please contact Celebration HQ at BurnsFilmCenter@resevt.com or 212.627.1000.
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