Support Jeffrey Wells' Venice Film Festival Journey

I'm Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere, and once again I'm passing the GoFundMe hat to cover film festival expenses -- the 2025 Venice Film Festival primarily, but also, depending on the breaks, the 2025 Cannes Film Festival also. So maybe both, but definitely Venice.

I'll need around $7K to cover both festivals, or $3.5K each. The Cannes festival happens in mid-May, and the Venice gathering starts in late August. The dough is for air fare, apartment rental, local transportation, bare-bones groceries, occasional cappuccinos, etc.

Last year's request for Cannes expenses worked out quite nicely. It was actually heartening. Remember that I'm not paywalling any posts these days. HE is totally free and wide-open. I just need to cover these two vitally important festivals.

Those who may wish to donate anonymously are requested to do so via my Venmo acount -- @gruver56

For thirty odd years I covered my Cannes expenses through HE ad dollars, but the ad situation went south three or four years ago due to wokester persecution and cancellation. So I'm once again begging for assistance. My hat is out and I have no shame.

Thanks for your gracious help if you're able to part with $25 or $50 or whatever. If not, no sweat. And if I don't make my goal of $7000 and manage to only raise half that, I'll blow Cannes off and just do Venice. Thanks either way. My life is in your hands.

Hollywood Elsewhere delivers a kind of searing, blow-the-bloody-doors-off, hang-the-consequences truth that is very rare these days. For me tapping out HE stories is, well, everything and then some. I don't know how to do anything else, and, as Vincent Hanna once famously said, "I don't much want to."