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The Green Film (www.thegreenfilm.com), a short eco-comedy about an attempt to make the world's most environmentally friendly movie was just named as one of only three finalists for the “Slate Award” for “Best Mini Short” in the 2009 California Independent Film Festival.
The Green Film’s writer – Mark Leiren-Young – has also picked up a major nomination as one of the finalists for the 2009 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for his debut book, a comic memoir about his adventures as a small town reporter, Never Shoot a Stampede Queen.
The Green Film was also selected as the only Canadian contender in Delta Airline's Fly-In Movies Film Competition.
The Green Film was one of only five films chosen by programmers of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival from thousands of entries. All movies are shown on Delta flights and also screened online. Viewers are invited to rate the films and the highest ranked short will be featured at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
Canadians who want to support Canada's entry in the Competition and help fly The Green Film to Tribeca can rank it online at https://www.delta-offers.com/offers/go/flyinmovies
The Green Film has already played worldwide with festival screenings at Filmstock in the United Kingdom and The Victoria Film Festival (Canada). It is also slated for showings at the Houston International Film Festival, The Newport Beach Film Festival, The California Independent Film Festival and the Dawson City International Short Film Festival.
It is opening at four festivals over the next two weeks:
- Dawson City International Short Film Festival (April 12)
- California Independent Film Festival (April 17)
- The WorldFest in Houston (Sat April 25th)
- The Newport Beach Film Festival (Sat April 25)
The Green Film stars Jonathon Young (The Englishman's Boy, Sanctuary) and Lexa Doig (Andromeda, Stargate).
The Green Film is directed by Andrew WIlliamson who has produced over 40 shorts and a feature film that went to Sundance. The Green Film is his return to the directing chair in preparation for directing Our Daily Bread later this year, a romantic comedy written by Yvonne Prinz.
Writer and co-producer of The Green Film, Mark Leiren-Young, also wrote and performed the short’s closing song, "Green Guilt Blues", which is on his upcoming eco-comedy CD, Greenpieces (featuring his musical comedy act, Local Anxiety). The evergreen Leiren-Young is also the writer-director-producer of The Green Chain, an award-winning feature film about the people behind the issues in a dying logging town. The Green Chain is currently playing Canadian theatres as a Kinosmith release.
The Green Film is produced by Scott Renyard who just produced Dissolve -- a documentary about drug-facilitated sexual assault being distributed by Moving Pictures Distribution. Renyard also wrote, directed and produced the feature documentary, Who Killed Miracle? which will be completed May, 2009. Renyard just started principle photography on Herring Boned, the story of two environmental groups that are trying to bring back the Pacific Herring, Surf Smelt and Sand Lance -- one egg at a time.
The voting deadline for the Delta competition is April 12th.
For more info on The Green Film contact Sam Van Schie at svanschie@gmail.com or 604.875.0048.
The film, Green Dream is a story about a girl who sets out to explore our everyday interactions and attitudes towards GREEN, searching for the root of our conflicting relationship with nature. In the process she discovers answers in the most unlikely places.
Green Dream's creator, Maia Iotzova, uses garbage to create her business cards, and produces more promotional materials, such as Green Media prints, by using discarded coffee cups.
Learn more about Green Dream Media by checking out Maia's green dream blog.
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
The battle between loggers and environmentalists is defining,
dividing and destroying communities in Canada and around the world. The Green Chain
is a powerful, funny and thought-provoking film about the conflicts
between people on both sides of the battle who love trees -- and are
willing to risk anything to protect their personal visions of the
forest.
The Green Chain examines a community and a
way of life through a series of riveting inter-linking monologues
inspired by the true tales and personalities that define today’s
forests.
Source: http://planetinfocus.org/festival/glimpse
An aesthetic mix of images and sound, this experimental animation offers an emotional and vibrant view of the changing urban environment.
Dustin Arthur Grella is an artist/writer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore our human experience through the passage of time. He gains inspiration from time, travel, industry, and nature. Grella received Best of Show for Test Four [2005], a projection animation in honor of his brother who had been killed in the war in Iraq the previous year, and an honorable mention for Una Adventura [2005]. His long range goal is to create an artifact that will outlast any record of our present culture.
Source: http://planetinfocus.org/festival/crazy-rocks
On the Indu-Bhutan International border, 650, 000 of the Bodo ethnic majority divert the course of the Pagladia river to 116 villages through 13 embankments. They are taking the river home from a rerouted course created in the 1920's. Only utilizing natural environmental sound, the film portrays the community’s collective action at the very first embankment by the river’s origin. They lift stone by stone, else they cease to exist.
Altaf Mazid is a critic turned filmmaker based in Guwahati. His films Jibon (Life, 1998), The Joy of Giving (2004), Las Vegasat (In Las Vegas, 2004), Bhal Khabar (Good News 2005), and Las Vegasat Barakhoon (One Rainy Night in Las Vegas, 2007) have attracted critical acclaim.
Source: http://planetinfocus.org/festival/turtles-soup
India’s fresh water turtles are a precious commodity in the markets of South East Asia. They are victims of an illegal, uncontrolled trade which is depleting India’s turtle population at an unprecedented pace. Turtles have played an important role in India’s eco-system but the Asian turtle crisis may change it forever.
Kalpana Subramanian has directed several short films and created visual content for multimedia museums and exhibits, produced by Sacred World Research laboratory, a pioneering interactive media lab, dedicated to building bridges between culture and technology. Other works include promotional films for Channel [V], educational films for children for the national channel, documentation of women’s oral histories and spirituality, for Narivada, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
Source: http://planetinfocus.org/festival/my-lapland
Jussi, seems lost. A young Saami man in his twenties, he has watched his family sell their reindeer herd against his wishes. Having lived in Lapland his entire life he resents his brother’s decision to move south, abandoning the traditional Saami ways. When his brother comes home for a visit, Jussi is confronted once more with the choices now facing the community and his family. What will he decide? A quirky, bittersweet drama from Lapland, sure to resonate with Canadian audiences.
Hanna Bergholm is now shooting a movie to be her diploma work and she will graduate soon from the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, Department of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design.
Source: http://planetinfocus.org/festival/make-a-wish
An inventive young Palestinian girl will do whatever it takes to buy a birthday cake in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
Born to Palestinian/Jordanian immigrant parents, award-winning filmmaker and television writer Cherien Dabis has been recognized by the industry's top organizations and trade publications. A 2004 graduate of Columbia University's Masters of Fine Arts Film program, Dabis' short films have screened at some of the world's top film festivals. Itmanna (Make A Wish) is also an official selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin as well as Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Most recently, Screen International listed her new project, Amreeka, as one of the "Ten Arab Films to Watch" in 2007.
Source: http://planetinfocus.org/festival/roosters
A young Albanian immigrant experiences repeated visions of an execution. The past veers its way into the present in this drama.
Before embarking on a career as a filmmaker, Maurici Jimenez was employed at small production company in the department of production and development. Roosters is his first short film.
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