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Thank you for your donation!
Generous gifting made our film possible. Your donation, in turn, will allow us to share Water is Love with even more people and support community-driven water retention projects. Further below, learn more about the impact your donation will have and how we’ve made this film in a gift economy experiment.
If you would like to contribute a donation from Europe via Paypal to our
Portuguese non-profit fiscal sponsor:
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Or via Bank Transfer:​
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Account holder: Associação para um Mundo Humanitário
Bank: Caixa Crédito Agrícola
IBAN: PT50004563324018178655845
With note: Water is Love Film
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Please send an email to waterislovefilm@tamera.org for any questions and / or to confirm your donation!
​Ripples of Regeneration, Inc is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit in California
and your donation is tax-deductible in the US.​​
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Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions: contact (at) ripplesofregeneration.earth
HOW YOUR DONATION WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
In 2024, we launched a non-profit to support us with a professional structure and finances. While the film is now released, the global response has shown us the urgent need to support concrete action around water and climate regeneration, and to continue weaving the web of water activists, healers, communities, and changemakers. ​​
Ripples of Regeneration, Inc. is our commitment to deepening that network and turning inspiration into tangible action. We are currently in a development phase, but our mission is clear: we aim to help resources flow to community-driven, decentralized water retention projects and ensure that regenerative projects have the tools they need to flourish.
One-time Donors: Your donation will help us share the film and educational tools with even more people and schools, universities and communities around the world. One-time contributions help us maintain relationships and cover conference tickets or train fare to network with other activists and present at nearby screenings.
Sustaining Donors: Your monthly contributions provide the stability we need to keep the film online and associated programs running. They cover ongoing costs, such as subscriptions for platforms and services, and support our team.
Major Donors: Your significant gift will directly fund land-based projects that build climate resilience, restore healthy water cycles, and revive ecologies. As a major donor, you become a key partner in our mission to protect and restore water systems, and you will receive personal updates on the transformative impact of your contribution.
If you are inspired to become a major donor to Ripples of Regeneration, please send an email to Emily Coralyne at
contact (at) ripplesofregeneration.earth.
CREATING A FILM AS AN EXPERIMENT IN GIFT ECONOMY
To be true to our message of honoring water’s natural flow, we realized early on that we couldn’t run this production on transactional economics. We find that withholding, claiming ownership of and calculating the flow of money creates scarcity and separation, just like with water.
That is why we embraced a radical idea: We decided to offer our work as a gift, ask everyone contributing to this project to do the same and to trust that we will receive what we truly need.
Practically speaking, our team has worked voluntarily on this production. Much of the production took place in the Tamera community, where our basic needs have been taken care of by the community budget - which, in itself, was a huge gift.
Most people who have come in for specific tasks, be it our animation artist or the people creating subtitles or offering their music, have equally offered their work as a gift, driven by the motivation for this message to reach the world.
​Yet, we weren’t able to produce and release this film without money entirely.
Our expenses included things like:
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Online subscriptions (zoom, subtitles generator, website hosting, project management tools)
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Editing & production costs (sound mixing, rights to music, photography, and video images)
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Paying for professional services (graphic designers, consultants, trailer editors, accountants)
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Equipment (computers, hard drives, microphones)
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Marketing (film festival application fees, travel to festivals & screenings, postcard printing, social media ads, placement at climate conferences)
We’ve been able to cover these costs due to the generosity of 550 crowdfunding donors who gave between 10 and 20,000 Euros since 2021. From this crowdfunding campaign and the donations we collected from people who’d watched the film, all of our expenses were covered and no one on the team needed to use the debt system to do our work. When we had personal financial needs that couldn’t be covered otherwise - and that, if not fulfilled, would have hindered us from working on the project - we requested specific amounts from our film budget to tend to these needs, in a transparent communication with the other team members.
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We haven’t made personal profits from the project and intend to share donations with the communities portrayed in our film and other decentralized, community-driven water management projects.
During our release campaign, we experimented with different donation models but found that gift economy is challenging online because in essence, it thrives on personal connection. In our preview events in 2024, viewers could pay what they wanted - and most didn’t give at all. The average donation was $1.50. We felt that we wanted to raise the challenge for people to check what they were willing to give while making sure anyone who wanted to watch it for free could do so.
When we released the film for streaming on March 22, 2025 with a sliding scale of $10-$100 and a scholarship option, 95% of viewers didn’t engage with either. As a team, we realized we needed to let go of trying to guide the gift and simply trust. A lesson that we’ve learned a few times over now. That’s why the film is now available without barriers.