Donate To The Japan Earthquake / Tsunami Relief, Enter To Win A Criterion Disc

Last week’s horrifying earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan has been terrifying to watch unfold.

I’ve been trying to think of how we as a podcast and website can help organize our readers and listeners into donating to the relief, and I’ve decided to launch a contest of sorts.

Over the next two weeks, if you donate $10 to your charity of choice, you’ll have your name entered into our “hat” to win a Criterion DVD or Blu-ray. I don’t have a disc in mind at this point, possibly the recent release of Still Walking or maybe the upcoming release of the Mikado or Topsy-Turvy. With each $10 that you donate, you’ll have your name entered into the contest. You can enter as many times as you donate $10 to a charity for the Japan relief.

I think within the next few days I’ll update this post, with the prizes listed.

I don’t have a charity in mind, but you can donate easily through MercyCorps or the Red Cross.

The logistics: You’ll need to e-mail CriterionCast (at) Gmail (dot) com, with “Japan Relief Contest” in the subject line. In the email, include some sort of proof that you donated. This can be in the form of a screenshot of your receipt. Feel free to blur or black out any information that you don’t want to share with us, but keep in mind that all entries will be completely private, and not shared with anyone. I’d like to use the honor system for this, but I also don’t want people to abuse this contest.

I’ll announce the winner here on the site on Monday, April 4th, 2011.

Feel free to contact me here in the comments, or privately if you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this contest.

If you are a distributor, and would like to donate any discs to this contest, feel free to contact me.