DYING TO LIVE World Premiere
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — Cleveland, Ohio
Thursday, October 29, 2026
6pm-9pm
Red Carpet | Screening | Community Awareness Experience
Partner With a Cleveland Film Premiere Built Around Story, Healing, and Community
The Dying To Live world premiere at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is more than a screening — it is a premium cultural event and awareness movement inviting Northeast Ohio partners to help people see the life, continue the story, and be the support.
Dying To Live is a psychological/supernatural thriller about grief, family trauma, faith, survival, and the fight to choose life. The film carries a deeper awareness message around emotional pain, suicide prevention, domestic violence awareness, addiction, family wounds, and the importance of seeing people before judging their pain.
Every person has a story people do not see. Dying To Live was created to bring that hidden pain into the light through a powerful psychological/supernatural thriller about grief, faith, family trauma, survival, and choosing life. This premiere is designed to do more than entertain — it is built to create conversation, connection, awareness, and community support.
Before you judge someone’s pain, see their life.
Why Sponsors Partner With This Premiere
Sponsors receive more than logo placement. They receive meaningful visibility, red-carpet content, social media recognition, community goodwill, and a powerful local story they can proudly share with their audience.
Sponsors receive recap visibility through select event photos, digital acknowledgments, and campaign follow-up content.
Who This Premiere Reaches
This premiere is designed to reach a meaningful cross-section of Northeast Ohio — film lovers, families, local businesses, community leaders, faith communities, nonprofit organizations, mental health advocates, domestic violence awareness supporters, recovery advocates, educators, creatives, and people who believe stories can help communities heal.
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For sponsors, this creates a powerful opportunity to connect with an audience that values culture, compassion, local storytelling, community impact, and purpose-driven partnership.
By the Numbers
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400+ expected attendees at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame premiere
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50,000+ combined social media reach across Javon Bates The Legacy Films channels (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube)
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5,000+ email subscribers reached with premiere promotion
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Press outreach underway to most of the major media and press outlets
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Every sponsor receives a post-event impact report with photos and reach metrics
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Community-access seats for invited guests, creatives, advocates, and supporters.
Awareness content connected to grief, healing, suicide prevention, domestic violence awareness, addiction, and emotional survival.
Local film growth through Cleveland-based storytelling and creative opportunity.
A premium cultural event that brings together entertainment, community, and purpose.
A home is more than a property. It is where people grieve, heal, rebuild, start over, and continue their story. That is why real estate and home-centered brands have a natural connection to the message behind Dying To Live.
To keep sponsor visibility meaningful, premiere sponsorship opportunities are limited. Early sponsors receive stronger placement, more promotional runway, and more opportunities for pre-event content.
What Your Sponsorship Helps Create
Your sponsorship helps turn the DYING TO LIVE premiere into more than a film screening. It helps create community-access seats, awareness-driven conversations, red-carpet visibility, sponsor recognition, local film growth, and a premium cultural experience rooted in Cleveland storytelling.
Every sponsorship supports a campaign built around entertainment, healing, creative opportunity, audience engagement, and community impact.
Sponsorship Packages
Community Access Sponsor — $750: Logo on the official sponsor page with a link to your website • Two dedicated social media thank-you posts • 2 complimentary premiere tickets • Inclusion in the post-event impact recap
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Continue the Story Sponsor — $1,500 (only 6 available): Everything above, plus: Logo on on-site event signage • Inclusion in all premium digital promotion • 4 complimentary tickets • Your materials displayed at the event • Named mention in the post-event impact report
Premiere Impact Partner — $3,000 (only 3 available): Everything above, plus: Top-tier logo placement on all event materials • Verbal acknowledgment from the stage during the premiere program • Dedicated information table • 6 complimentary tickets • Red-carpet photo and video content featuring your brand • Guaranteed post-event impact report with photos and reach metrics
Built by a Cleveland Filmmaker With a Larger Mission
Jav̈on Bates is a Cleveland-based filmmaker, writer, director, producer, music producer, composer, cinematographer, author, and founder of Reel Opportunity Bridge Foundation. His work connects entertainment, storytelling, community impact, and creative opportunity for Northeast Ohio.
Sponsors receive recap visibility through select event photos, digital acknowledgments, and campaign follow-up content. They deserve to see the work, the leadership, the community connection, and the mission behind the campaign.
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DYING TO LIVE is more than a feature film premiere. It is a Cleveland-built cinematic movement led by Jav̈on Bates, a filmmaker, producer, writer, director, composer, and creative entrepreneur committed to using storytelling as a bridge between entertainment, healing, workforce development, and community impact.
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This campaign is not built on an idea alone. It is supported by real production work, public-facing projects, past film campaigns, behind-the-scenes execution, community-centered storytelling, and a larger mission through Jav̈on Bates The Legacy Films and Reel Opportunity Bridge Foundation.
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For sponsors, this is an opportunity to stand beside a professional film campaign with emotional purpose, cultural relevance, audience-building potential, and a mission designed to live beyond one premiere night.
​Proof of Vision. Proof of Work. Proof of Mission.
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Jav̈on Bates is a Cleveland-based filmmaker building more than films. Through his body of work, original storytelling, public projects, community partnerships, and nonprofit mission, he is creating a platform where cinema becomes a tool for visibility, healing, creative access, and legacy.
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DYING TO LIVE continues that mission with a powerful psychological/supernatural thriller rooted in grief, survival, faith, family trauma, and the fight to keep living.
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For sponsors, this campaign offers more than logo placement. It offers alignment with a professional creative movement that brings together film, community, awareness, and meaningful visibility.
Feature Film Production
A professionally produced independent feature film with original campaign artwork, production stills, cast imagery, behind-the-scenes content, and a clear premiere strategy designed for public visibility.
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Past Premiere Experience
Javon Bates The Legacy Films has experience developing and promoting public-facing film events, screenings, and premiere campaigns that bring audiences, artists, partners, and communities together.
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Community Impact Mission
The message behind DYING TO LIVE connects with grief, survival, trauma, mental health, faith, family, and community support — giving sponsors a meaningful reason to be part of the campaign.
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Cleveland-Based Storytelling
This campaign represents Cleveland creativity, independent film leadership, local talent, and a filmmaker committed to building cultural visibility from the city outward.
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Nonprofit Workforce Development
Through Reel Opportunity Bridge Foundation, the larger mission connects film production with mentorship, creative training, workforce development, and access for aspiring filmmakers, actors, crew members, young creatives, returning citizens, and underserved communities.
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Sponsor Visibility Opportunities
Sponsors can receive visibility through website placement, social media promotion, event signage, red-carpet recognition, trailer/teaser promotion, sponsor graphics, community outreach, and post-premiere campaign content.
Javon Bates is a Cleveland-based filmmaker, writer, director, producer, composer, cinematographer, author, and founder of Reel Opportunity Bridge Foundation. His work connects entertainment, storytelling, community impact, and creative opportunity for Northeast Ohio.
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This premiere is part of a larger mission to build a sustainable film and impact MEBA system rooted in Cleveland.
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A Natural Fit for Community-Focused Brands
Every sponsor connects to this mission in a different way. For home-centered brands, the film speaks to the emotional meaning of home — where people grieve, heal, rebuild, protect family, and continue their story.
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For healthcare, counseling, recovery, education, faith-based, nonprofit, media, financial, real estate, and business partners, the campaign creates a public platform for awareness, compassion, creative opportunity, and community connection.
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DYING TO LIVE allows sponsors to align with a Cleveland-built premiere that brings entertainment, purpose, visibility, and impact together in one meaningful cultural event.
Become Part of the Story
DYING TO LIVE gives sponsors the opportunity to stand beside a film campaign with emotional purpose, local relevance, and a mission designed to reach beyond one premiere night.
Your brand can help create a premiere experience that entertains, inspires, and supports the community — while being recognized as part of a Cleveland-built story about healing, survival, awareness, and continuing the story.
Contact:
Javon Bates
MEBA Entertainment Studios
Javon Bates The Legacy Films
Founder, Reel Opportunity Bridge Foundation
info@jblegacyfilms.com
jblegacyfilms.com
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