CRUDE - Little people Big Oil Movie
September 21, 2009 by Ambassador of Green · 1 Comment
Three years in the making, this riveting new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Read more
Age of Stupid Global Premiere in Ny during Climate Work
September 18, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Why didn’t we save ourselves when we had the chance? This is the question the soon-to-be released film, Age of Stupid, poses to us. The film takes place in a future where our world has been ravaged by climate change due to a business-as-usual approach to this growing global threat.
The good news is that this doesn’t need to happen. For now, our fate of being remembered as the Age of Stupid is still within our grasp to reverse. With your help, we can get the word out about climate change and our ability to help avert disaster.
Be part of our live premiere on September 21st by attending one of the 400 theaters across the country that will broadcast the New York City premiere live for this exciting ONE NIGHT ONLY event. For more details on the premiere, how to get complimentary tickets, celebrity attendees, Koffi Anan’s follow up address and how you can help, please see below.
Don’t let us become the Age of Stupid - This is a film premiere you can’t miss!
Age of Stupid Premiere Information:
Brought to you by Fathom Events, The Age of Stupid will launch in America on September 21st, 2009 from a solar-powered cinema tent in New York LIVE to 115,000 people in 400 movie theatres right across the country.
This One Night Only live event is your only chance to see The Age of Stupid on the big screen and is timed for the day before the UN’s climate meeting on September 22nd, when 80 Heads of State - and therefore the world’s media - will gather in New York. (The event has also just been confirmed as being an official part of the UN’s Climate Week NYC.)
Everyone is invited to go to their local theatre to watch the VIPs arrive in Manhattan by boat, bike, rickshaw, electric car or skateboard, before braving the paparazzi on the green carpet. Following the first US screening of The Age of Stupid, there will be a further 40 minute live event featuring Kofi Annan, Gillian Anderson, Mary Robinson, the film’s director Franny Armstrong, the star of the film Pete Postlethwaite, and other leading thinkers, celebrities and political figures from around the world.
Audiences will hear from scientists working in the Himalayas and Indonesian rain forest via live satellite link and from a group of children speaking from the very room in Copenhagen in which all our futures will be decided at the UN climate summit in December. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke will wrap up the evening with a short acoustic performance.
For more information and a theater schedule visit: http://www.ageofstupid.net/usa
The film starts at: 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 PM CT / 5:30 PM MT / tape delayed 8PM PT
For a taste of what to expect, have a look at the UK launch in March 2009 (http://www.vimeo.com/5234375), which produced only 1% of the emissions of a standard Hollywood event and which broke the Guinness World Record for biggest simultaneous premiere.
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122440801800
How you and your readers can help!
We have a grand total of zero dollars for advertising, so please, please help however you can:
1. Post the Age of Stupid trailer on you blog (http://www.ageofstupid.net/video/trailer) and provide ticket and theater information so you your readers can come out and support the film.
2. Buy tickets to your local cinema for you, your mom, your boyfriend, your boyfriend’s hairdresser and all their friends. Please buy tickets now rather than later.
3. Put together an outing for your school/sports team/church - make an evening of it by arranging a meal before or after the event (after may be better, as you’ll all hopefully be inspired to start discussing how you can get involved in climate actions in your area).
4. Email the e-flyer to all your American friends, asking them to pass it on. (It’s either attached or available on our website).
5. Share the word to any mailing list you are part of.
6. Go onto the US listing page (http://www.ageofstupid.net/usa), look through the locations and then send the details direct to your friends in whichever town/city they’re in. There’s an easy widget on each individual theatre’s page, which lets you send the details without messing around with emails.
7. Go mad on Facebook & Twitter
8. Rate/review the film (if you’ve seen it) on the Fandango website (the US ticket sellers). Seeing loads of enthusiastic reviews makes a really big difference to people who are undecided as to whether or not to go
9. Go along to any climate/enviro/activist meetings happening in your area and give a quick one minute talk about the Stupid launch
10. If you are able to hand out flyers / put up posters in your nearest theatre, please email talanne@ageofstupid.net for instructions
11. We may be able to give your group free complimentary tickets for your local theater if you would like to run a competition, or simply as a thank you for block booking lots of tickets (think 10+). Please contact laurel@ageofstupid.net to discuss this or other ideas you have for promoting the event in your area.
We Live in Public
September 8, 2009 by Ambassador of Green · Leave a Comment
Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of,” artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG! - which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2004 - making Timoner the only director to win that prestigious award twice) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives. Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web,” founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the ground breaking project “Quiet” in an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public.
A Interloper Films & Abramorama Release. OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com
Running time 90 mins.
Michael Moore , Capitalism A Love Story
September 8, 2009 by Ambassador of Green · Leave a Comment
Michael Moore has a new target
Provocateur/director Michael Moore has taken on the likes of General Motors and the health-care system. He’s now focusing on Wall Street in his new documentary, in Theaters October 2nd Nationwide.
As many workers know, some companies are using furloughs to save money. But this story in the New York Times finds many people are coping with furloughs by working through the scheduled time off.
In the New Yorker, CIA chief Leon Panetta lets off a little steam about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration. Said Panetta: “It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that’s dangerous politics.”
Your serve, Mr. Cheney.
The Movie Crude winner of numerous awards
August 24, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
From acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger
(Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster)
comes the Sundance sensation and controversial legal thriller
everyone is talking about…
**Winner of Numerous International Environmental, Human Rights and Film Festival Awards**
“Rarely have such conflicts been examined with the depth and power of Joe Berlinger’s documentary Crude. These real characters and events play out on the screen like a sprawling legal thriller.”
-Stephen Holden, The New York Times
“A fascinating and important story. Crude does an extraordinary job of merging journalism and art.”
-Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent
LA Release Date: September 18th, 2009 at Landmark’s Nuart
Directed by: Joe Berlinger
Produced by: Joe Berlinger, Michael Bonfiglio, J.R. Deleon, Richard Stratton
Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.
A First Run Features Release
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.crudethemovie.com/
Earth Days - The Movie by Robert Stone
July 20, 2009 by Ambassador of Green · 1 Comment
can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and Read more
Wanderlust, Music and Yoga in Squaw Valley, CA
July 15, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
The Cove, Hayden Panettiere, Dolphins
May 31, 2009 by Ambassador of Green · 9 Comments
‘Heroes’ star Hayden Panettiere and Ric O’Barry from www.Savejapandolphins.org bravely battle Japanese fisherman as they try to stop the annual slaughter of hundreds of innocent dolphins and whales in Taiji Japan.
This New Documentary film is, THE COVE - after years of preparation, coming to screens near you and is well worth the story it tells and secrets ( suppressed and hidden, the COVE is actually a National refuge used by Japanese fishermen - Illegal according to some laws. )
Note on this video… This is hard to watch… and it is NOT acting. Read more
POLIWOOD - Barry Levinson’s new Film
May 11, 2009 by editor · 2 Comments
The Fusion of Politics, Celebrity and the Media Explored in “Poliwood,” the New Documentary by Barry Levinson, Produced by Robert Baruc, Robin Bronk, Tim Daly and Jason Sosnoff
by Annette Ferstenberg
Poliwood, which premiered on May 1, 2009 at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is a searching visual essay on how the media and especially television has transformed the way we receive and regard politics and even what and who is political. No longer are societal roles fixed, issues clear-cut and leaders defined or limited by their professions.
In an age where “Joe the Plumber” can become a global news correspondent in mere weeks, a little known Alaskan governor can be Read more
EARTHDAY Plant a MILLION TREES
April 21, 2009 by Ambassador of Green · Leave a Comment
http://www.milliontreesla.org
Los Angeles Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa
“I love this amazing city, and I know you do too. As part of a larger effort to make Los Angeles greener, cleaner, healthier and more beautiful for us all to enjoy, I have launched the Million Trees LA initiative; the plan is to plant one million trees over the next several years. This is a partnership between the City of Los Angeles, community groups, businesses and individuals like you, working together to plant and provide long-term stewardship of one million trees, planted all over the city with a focus on areas that need it most.”
The trees will provide Read more
TheCoveMovie 
