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By Bella Sie On December 01, 2011 | 0 Comments
SURVIVING PROGRESS is a stunning new feature documentary that connects the financial collapse, growing inequity, and the Wall Street oligarchy, with future technology, sustainability, and the fate of civilization. Inspired by Ronald Wright’s bestseller A Short History of Progress, filmmakers Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks dig deep into human nature and patterns of history to challenge and redefine the very idea of progress.
For the last four years Mark Achbar has been the executive producer along with Vancouver colleague Betsy Carson on 10 documentaries made possible by the box office success of the Corporation.
As Mark says:
"In light of the Occupy movement, that this film — 6 years in the making — is being released NOW is some kind of miracle of timing!"
Please help us spread the word as it's so important for films to do well on opening weekend in order to stay in theatres!!
Continue reading after the jump for showtimes, press links, and a list of ways you can easily help us promote the film!
Bella is the newest addition to Hello Cool World, enlisting for the cause at the end of 2010. A graduate of BCIT's Broadcast Communications for TV program, she's worked in all aspects of production and has a knack for new media & technology.
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By Katherine Dodds On November 27, 2011 | 0 Comments
65_RedRoses is our first film that we are launching as a distributor! Meet the girl who inspired millions with her love.
Yesterday was an exciting day for Hello Cool World as we gathered to work on our business vision and mission as a group. You can follow some of the links to this on Twitter at #HCWBizPlan.
As social entrepreneurs we run a triple bottom line company. As distributors we are defining fairer trade for films with a social message. We offer a higher return to filmmakers and use our profits to sustain campaigns.
Live Life. Pass It On. #4Eva
This morning as I prepare to head off to interview Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall, directors of 65_RedRoses, and Cyrus McEachern, the photographer who collaborated with Eva to create the beautiful campaign photos we are using, I am thinking of what a priviledge it is to get to test out our new 'fairer' trade model of film distribution with this inspiring project.
65_RedRoses chronicles Eva’s battle with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and the double-lung transplant that gave her two more precious years of life. Tragically Eva lost her battle with CF at only 25.Hello Cool World is the Canadian distributor for 65_RedRoses, the award-winning documentary about Eva Markvoort.
Eva's legacy is 65RedRoses.com, the film and campaign for organ donation and CF Awareness she helped create – Live Life. Pass it On. #4Eva.
Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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By Katherine Dodds On October 04, 2011 | 2 Comments
Hot on the heels of InSite's victory - Raw Opium will have it's television premiere on TV Ontario October 5.
One of Raw Opium's characters Derek on the streets of Vancouver.
From the Raw Opium Blog: "A major story-thread in the film focuses on Derek, an IV drug user on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the InSite clinic which has been so central to his life. So we expect a major topic of the chat will relate to last week's Supreme Court decision ordering the Conservative Government to allow Insite to stay open."
Please Join Us!
Where: http://TVO.org/Rawopium
When: Oct. 5, 9 -10 PM EST
(Part 2: Oct. 12, 9 -10 PM EST)
Details on KensingtonTV's blog.
TVO and Kensington TV are hosting an online live chat during the broadcast with Special Guest Richard Elliott, Executive Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (pictured on the right).
Richard is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Centre for Human Rights and Drug Policy. He has authored numerous reports, papers and articles on a range of legal and human rights issues related to HIV/AIDS, appeared before legislative committees, taught or lectured at several law schools, and presented extensively on HIV-related human rights issues across the country and internationally.
Richard Elliott and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network defended Insite at the Supreme Court of Canada in May 2011, in the case in which the Conservative Government tried to shut Insite clinic down.
By Katherine Dodds On October 02, 2011 | 2 Comments
TODAY ONLY! SURVIVING PROGRESS - Sun, Oct 2nd 4:15pm at the VOGUE THEATRE
Harold Crooks, co-director of Surviving Progress at VIFF.
FINAL VIFF SCREENING:
Sun, Oct 2nd 4:15pm
Visa Screening Room at the Vogue Theatre
Tickets available at the door. Q&A with directors.
This weekend marked the opening of the Vancouver International Film Festival and once again Granville Street has been taken over by crowds of film buffs and movie aficionados eager to see a diverse collection of newly released films from the world.
Two films are of particular interest to Hello Cool World's ongoing work around social change.
SURVIVING PROGRESS, a film by Harold Crooks and Mathieu Roy based on Ronald Wright's bestselling book A Short History of Progress. The documentary, which was executive produced by Mark Achbar (The Corporation) and Betsy Carson (Waking the Green Tiger) provides a subversive diagnosis of mankind's unique abilities and the danger they've brought to the world.
The film opens with a suggestive scene of primates performing elementary human tasks for a simple reward of fruit, and directors Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks focus on the crucial differences and similarities between our genetic forebears and us. Unlike them, we have, as a behavioural scientist puts it, the ability to “probe for unobservable phenomenon to explain the observable.” This is the key to science, philosophy, mechanics, industrialization and the rest of our “progress.” But like the apes, we are defined by primeval impulses that, when married to our unique intelligence, can produce disastrous results. Climate change, brutal depletion of natural resources, economic inequality and an alienation from the natural world--is the price of our native intelligence too high?
By Kevin Young On September 09, 2011 | 0 Comments
The latest edition of Point of View magazine is hot off the press! Hello Cool World is quite literally all over it. First of all, check out the fantastic cover. The Surviving Progress artwork was mastered and created by Hello Cool World's very own designer Terry Sunderland.
Surviving Progress, a Canadian feature documentary executive produced by Mark Achbar (director of The Corporation) and inspired by Ronald Wright’s A Short History of Progress that looks at the deep-seated habits within human behavior that threaten our very survival. The film examines the consequences of economic and technical growth, and describes ‘progress traps’ – modes of action in pursuit of prosperity and security that lead to famine, bankruptcy, and the threat of human extinction.
This latest issue is all about the Toronto International Film Festival, making Raw Opium’s feature ad a natural fit. Raw Opium is a phenomenal documentary that looks into the American war on drugs, and sheds light and awareness on critical issues around addiction. While Raw Opium is not in this year’s festival, the film is being self distributed by Kensington Communications and a feature ad in Point of View offers fantastic exposure for the film. Check out Colette’s previous blog entry for more on this incredible project.
Also, take note of the inside back cover of this issue and you will see another beaming example of Mr. Sunderland’s immense talent and Hello Cool World’s strategic ad placement.
Kevin Young is Hello Cool Worlds media buyer - and loves his job! He enjoys working with the media community and everyone here at Hello Cool World.
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