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65_RedRoses US home DVD Ships today!
NEWSFLASH: SALE ON OUR ONLINE STORE! USE promo code heart10 until July 15!
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Hi US fans who have been eagerly awaiting the DVD since the May 3 launch on OWN, Today’s the day! If you buy the DVD from us, it supports our #4Eva Campaign for organ donation and CF Awareness, and they will ship out right away. We also have lowered the prices on our #4Eva T-shirts.
Are you interested in helping us spread the love? We’re happy to discuss bulk orders for all our campaign materials so you can use them for fundraisers or to spread the world. Contact us if you are interested in being a #4Eva campaign ambassador! outreach@65RedRoses.com.
Read more about how our campaign was inspired by Eva herself and the design project she and Cyrus collaborated on. Love, love, love.
~ the outreach team <3
Love, Love, Love! It started with a heart…
Wear your support #4Eva and her campaign!
Eva Markvoort was a young woman who inspired millions with her love. Her story was captured on film in the documentary 65_RedRoses. At only 23, struggling with cystic fibrosis, Eva started blogging on LiveJournal as she waited on the list for a double lung transplant. After her transplant, Eva and then medical student and photographer Cyrus McEachern, collaborated on an image for a heart-themed photo contest his cardiology professor was hosting. These stunning images, born from Eva’s artwork (with herself as the canvas) and Cyrus’ photos, are the heart of our campaign.Through her story and her art, Eva’s campaign continues, #4Eva. (Which means forever in Twitterverse!)
This first photo series also inspired a further collaboration with BC Transplant commissioning the pair to do a “Live Life. Pass it On” photo series – Eva with her lungs, and other transplant recipients with the organs they had received painted on their bodies. This entire beautiful series of work can be viewed on their website. We also collaborated with BC Transplant to create their 2012 Live Life Pass It On PSA using footage from the film. Please share our campaign, #4Eva!
Now you can buy our Eva heart images as art cards in the USA & Canada! The cards are 5 x7 and printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper. Photos of Eva by Cyrus McEachern. We’ve also use the heart motif for tee shirts and pendants. The home DVD (which is out now in Canada) the extra features include an interview with Cyrus along with filmmakers Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall, talking about their friend Eva and the photo series. Proceeds from all DVD sales and campaign materials go to spreading the word about Eva’s campaign, including the FREE #4Eva organ donation app we will be launching in May to make it easy to register as an organ donor anywhere in North America, and to share the campaign via social media networks.
Free 65_RedRoses Screening at Capilano University March 8
On Thursday, March 8 2012, Capilano University will be hosting a free community screening of 65_RedRoses!
The screening will be happening at the Nat and Flora Bosa Centre for Film and Animation Theatre. The movie starts at 4:30pm will be followed by an audience Q&A with Capilano University president, Dr. Kris Bulcroft, members of BC Transplant, and 65_RedRoses co-director, Nimisha Mukerji. Everyone is welcome, students and the public alike!
Interested in hosting a screening of your own? Fill in the Screening Request Form and a campaign member will be in touch with you shortly. The film is available for community screenings both in the US and Canada. (more…)
T-shirts and pendants featuring Eva’s Heart – now available in the Hello Cool World store!
The photo collaboration between Eva and photographer Cyrus McEachern, featuring Eva’s spontaneous and beautiful heart design, has become an emblem of her spirit and legacy. It also inspired the photos of the Live Life, Pass It On campaign from BC Transplant, which features other recipients of organ donation.
The heart motif that has inspired thousands of people around the world is now available on the Hello Cool World store, as a pendant and printed on a t-shirt. All proceeds go to support Eva’s campaign for organ donation and cystic fibrosis awareness, letting you spread her love while wearing it or gifting it to someone in your life. The materials are also produced in North America and sweatshop-free, and can be shipped to anywhere in Canada and the US! (more…)
DVD Pre-Sales Start Shipping This Week
We’ve got the DVD in our hot little hands and they start shipping to Canada this week. The US is not far behind!
Thanks to everyone who purchased a DVD & are helping support Eva’s movement for organ donation!
We’re now selling the DVD in Canada through HelloCoolWorld.com’s web store for $24.95. For now, it’s Canada only but this is only the beginning. We’d love to be able to sell it internationally but it’s a lot more complicated. Different regions use different formats, and we’d need a way to process and fulfill international orders. It’s definitely on our wish list though, and we’re exploring the options.
2010 BANFF WINNER FOR BEST CANADIAN PROGRAM
PRESS RELEASE!
Force Four Entertainment picked up the Banff Rockie Award for Best Canadian Program for the one-hour documentary 65_RedRoses at the Banff World Television Festival on Tuesday, June 15th. Directed by Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall, the film tells the heart-wrenching story of Eva Markvoort, a beautiful, high –spirited young woman with Cystic Fibrosis, as she awaits a double lung transplant.
The film was produced by Force Four partner John Ritchie and Executive Produced by Force Four partners Rob Bromley and Gillian Lowrey, for CBC News Network’s The Passionate Eye. Commissioning Editor for CBC was Andrew Johnson. Funding was also provided by Knowledge.
Eva Markvoort lived for two years with her new lungs and recently passed away, causing an outpouring of emotion from around the world, as the film, distributed by PBS International, has screened in more than a dozen countries, picking up three awards at the Vancouver Film Festival and awards at the 2009 Hot Docs Film Festival, Mendocino International Film Festival, as well as Omaha and Arizona’s International Film Festivals.
Spurred on by demand from around the world, the filmmakers are making DVD’s available for pre-order on the official website, www.65RedRoses.com. A portion of all proceeds will go to honoring the movement Eva Markvoort created for organ donation.
The win at the Banff Rockie Awards signifies that the jury, comprised of top broadcasters from around the world, judged the documentary to be the best program produced in Canada in 2009, across all genres.
Force Four Entertainment is a leading production company, producing television in all genres, from scripted drama and comedies to factual entertainment and documentaries. The company’s many awards include the prestigious Peabody and multiple Gemini Awards.
65_Red Roses was directed and produced by Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall, and is their first feature length documentary. The two young talents were last month awarded the Don Haig Award for most promising new filmmakers at the 2010 Hot Docs Festival in Toronto.
65_RedRoses Wins at Mendocino Film Festival!
We’re so happy to report that 65_RedRoses just won 2 awards at the 2010 Mendocino Film Festival in California!!! What an incredible festival for filmmakers, they screened two Oscar Winning documentaries (The Cove and Music By Prudence) and Phil and I both really enjoyed the documentaries Between the Folds and Tapped.
65_RedRoses won the Audience Choice Award as well as Best Emerging Filmmaker Award!
Here we are with the Oscar winning director of The Cove – Louie Psihoyos
Omaha Film Festival Winner!
GREAT NEWS!
65_RedRoses won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Omaha Film Festival! We’ve got a lot of screenings coming up in the US which is pretty exciting, especially since Eva has a huge online following of American friends. Stay tuned for more updates on festival screenings and broadcasts!
This past week I was invited to attend a screening of 65_RedRoses at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan and what a wonderful event it turned out to be! I graduated from UBC’s Film Production Program in Vancouver and it was really great to meet students interested in making films at the campus up north. Many thanks to the organizers and other panelists for making the screening possible, and also to the great audience that came out to see the film. There weren’t many dry eyes in the house, and a lot of people came up to me afterwards wanting to know how they could become organ donors. In Canada all you have to do is click on the icon of Eva anywhere on the site and it will take you to the different links in the province. If you are from outside of Canada we urge you to find out how to register in your country.
I visited Eva yesterday and she’s still fighting for each breath. She’s posting on her blog whenever she can – so keep visiting and commenting, she wrote a beautiful entry last night.
Thanks for your support!
Nimisha
Co-Director/Producer 65_RedRoses
MEG WILL BE AT SPOKANE FILM FEST!
65_RedRoses will be screening as a part of the Spokane International Film Festival…
AND MEG (aka ‘megmucus’) FROM THE FILM WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE!!!
megmucus & 65_RedRoses
PVR OR TVO THE SUPER BOWL AND COME SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS AND ORGAN DONATION!
SCREENING INFORMATION:
When: Sunday February 7th, 2010 at 12pm
Where: Magic Lantern Theatre, Downtown Spokane, WA
PLEASE CHECK OUT THIS SCREENING IF YOU’RE IN THE USA!!!
www.spokanefilmfestival.org
Available Light Film Festival Yukon!
Filmmakers Nimisha Mukerji & Philip Lyall are headed to the Yukon for the Available Light Film Festival where 65_RedRoses is screening as a part of the Opening Gala. Other notable films featured at the festival include “I Killed My Mother” “Soundtrack for a Revolution” and “Horseboy”.
If you live in Whitehorse or know anyone in the area tell ’em to come see the film, playing on Feb. 10th, 2010 at 6:30pm at the Yukon Arts Centre!!!
Women’s Film Festival Vermont!
Friends and Followers of 65_RedRoses, our award-winning documentary will be screening on March 20, 2010 at 4pm at Latchis Theater (50 Main Street) Brattleboro, Vermont! Please help us spread the word and come check out the film if you’re in the area! The festival is a benefit for the Women’s Crisis Center in Vermont!
