Amanda lost her home to the Altadena wildfire

My name is Amelia, and my incredible sister Amanda Gotera lost her home and absolutely everything in it to the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, on Tuesday Jan 7th. I'm organizing this crisis relief for her from northern Iowa.

Before the fire reached her small rental home in the foothills, Amanda was able to flee to safety with a handful of belongings. But she lost literally everything else, including: her professional-grade VFX computer rig, every single hard drive she owned (and every film she’s directed), fifteen years’ worth of fiction and screenwriting project development notebooks, and most of her identity documents.

If you’re here, you already know that Amanda is a brilliant, hilarious and all-together beautiful human. She’s a talented and scrappy filmmaker, crafter, and writer for children’s animation. She has always taken care of her people, stood unwaveringly for what is right, and poured herself into the work of storytelling as a radical force for change.

I am asking for your donation to help our sweet Amanda.

Amanda will be the direct beneficiary of what you donate here. Your support will help her first secure basic needs like clothing and food, and then temporary and longer-term housing, repairs to minor damage her car sustained on her harrowing drive out of Altadena, and additional resources she needs to begin to piece her life and career back together.

 

Thank you so much for any support you can give — including sharing this fundraiser to help our girl.

Amanda would also like to acknowledge the context of the neighborhood she’s been calling home. Altadena is an important, historically-Black community, and there are so many Black families who have also been displaced by the Eaton Fire. If you are safe and have the resources, please consider supporting one of their fundraising projects at the link below: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pK5omSsD4KGhjEHCVgcVw-rd4FZP9haoijEx1mSAm5c/htmlview