Hello Cool World Review: When I saw Force of Nature, I didn’t expect to learn so much about Sukuzi the scientist as well as ground-breaking mover and shaker. Or to be so entertained.
The ‘70s footage of Dr. Suzuki skateboarding down the halls of UBC is not to be missed.His long time collaboration with the Haida Nation is inspiring. The film really made me feel what a revolutionary figure in the Canadian landscape David Suzuki was, and still is. Packed full of information, and much more excitingly shot than the ‘legacy lecture’ part would have led me to believe, I think it is one of the most important films to come out this year…
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.
David Ng is a Hello Cool World veteran with experience going back a decade. David first worked with us when he was just 14 years old as a participant in the youth advisory group for the sexual health education program Condomania. Now an accomplished videographer passionate about the issues of gender and power, he is currently on sabbatical in South Africa while he pursues a Masters in Gender Studies with a focus on international development.
I've been blogging about most of this stuff, but here's a re-cap of what's going on with Hello Cool World friends, colleagues and cohorts this weekend, click on the links for the full blog post.
For the Love of Elephants, my dear friend Lynn at Make Believe Media's fiim about orphaned baby elephants is on CBC's The Nature of Things Thursday October 14, 2010. It's narrated by David Suzuki ... and speaking of DS...
FORCE OF NATURE: THE DAVID SUZUKI MOVIE: A Film By Sturla Gunnarsson NOW PLAYING in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Opens in Vancouver and select theatres in Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax and Vancouver on Friday, October 15, 2010. eOne is proud to announce our special initiative whereby the company will donate a $1 per ticket sale to the David Suzuki Foundation in the first two weeks of the film’s theatrical run.
5pm ET in TORONTO: SCREENING: Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto as part of Planet in Focus the International Environment Film & Video Festival producer/writer Lynn Booth in attendance.
My good friend Lynn and our pals at Make Believe Media are getting ready to launch a film that is sure to have the Ooh Awwwww appeal, I mean baby orphaned elephants??!? We'll have it on during our volunteer party at our LACE headquarters that night. Check out the trailer!
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.
David Ng is a Hello Cool World veteran with experience going back a decade. David first worked with us when he was just 14 years old as a participant in the youth advisory group for the sexual health education program Condomania. Now an accomplished videographer passionate about the issues of gender and power, he is currently on sabbatical in South Africa while he pursues a Masters in Gender Studies with a focus on international development.
