Vanessa

Hi! I'm Vanessa Bertozzi and I'm an Etsy Admin. I'm the Director of Community and Education at Etsy.

I'm putting the proceeds from sales of our DVD towards my donation to Partners in Health PIH.org, an organization helping victims of the Haiti earthquake.

This is my personal shop where I sell personal DVD copies of a documentary that I made before working at Etsy. My filmmaking collaborator Hanna Rose Shell and I made a foray into the world of indie filmmaking and spent 4 years (off and on) working on this documentary about used clothes. It's called Secondhand (Pepe) and you know you want to see it! If you've ever wondered where the clothes that you donate go, well, you should watch our movie. Folks interested in Jewish history or Haiti should also take a gander.

If you are from a museum or school and need a copy for institutional use, please convo me http://www.etsy.com/convo_new.php?to_username=Vanessa . Those copies are for sale via our distributor ThirdWorldNewsreel, http://www.thirdworldnewsreel.org http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1199&card=price.

Oh guess what: we had a screening at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in NYC on Feb 14 & 16, 2009. Hanna will be traveling to the Jacmel Film Festival in Haiti to screen the film and do community workshops there.

We've also screen-printed some used t-shirts with our movie's graphic - very cool one-of-a-kind thrifted merch!

Want to find out more? Check out this shop's About page.