PBS Broadcast Sponsorship Opportunity
A limited number of opportunities to participate in underwriting the broadcast of Keep Quiet and Forgive is now available.
A unique sponsorship opportunity
As a sponsor, your company will have a dedicated underwriting message at the opening and closing credits of PBS broadcasts and in digital, film festival and educational versions of the film, creating millions of high-value impressions. Your message will be built into the program for the film’s national premiere and will remain attached throughout the life of the film’s run on PBS.
With limited spots available—and guaranteed industry exclusivity—your message will stand out in an uncluttered advertising environment, and your support for this broadcast will resonate deeply with the PBS audience.
Keep Quiet and Forgive will reach millions of viewers on the PBS network on Independent Lens, Frontline, American Experience or POV with an anticipated premiere in 2025. With its 350 stations covering all fifty states, PBS will bring this poignant and powerful documentary to a broad national audience.
Custom branding packages
In addition to the PBS broadcast, we can design a custom strategy to integrate brand recognition through online engagement, promotional materials of the film, screenings and film festival events. Sponsorship will include your organization name and logo on marketing and press materials, such as a screening kit.
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Academy Award Nominations
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duPont-Columbia University Awards
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Emmy Awards
PBS films have won
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Peabody Awards
About the film
A powerful, untold story about a groundbreaking sexual abuse case and the Amish survivors who broke their silence, Keep Quiet and Forgive tells the story of Minnesotan Amish woman Lizzy Hershberger as she becomes the first to confront her Amish community and pursue justice. Her action galvanizes an unprecedented survivors’ movement across Amish communities, with resonance for survivors everywhere.
Keep Quiet and Forgive is based on an original investigation by the film’s director, Sarah McClure. The article, “The Amish Keep to Themselves” was published in 2020 in partnership with Type Investigations and Cosmopolitan magazine. The award-winning investigation exposed a widespread coverup of Amish child sexual abuse.
