Film Launch (56)
By Katherine Dodds On October 02, 2010 | 0 Comments
Force of Nature opened theatrically last Friday in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal and it opens in select theatres in Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax and Vancouver on Oct 15th. Click here for showtimes, locations & dates.
While I was hanging out at the CFC January 2009 -- I also met director Sturla Gunnarsson who was working on a film that is now launching across Canada. I had the pleasure of working on an early marketing strategy with Janice Tufford, and am thrilled that now I can go see the film on the big screen at VIFF. I'm also excited to see how the Suzuki Foundation will use the film as part of their 20th Anniversary 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.
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By Katherine Dodds On October 02, 2010 | 0 Comments
A DRUMMER'S DREAM AT VIFF
I had the pleasure of meeting filmmaker John Walker when Mark Achbar and I did a workshop a year and a half ago at the Candian Film Centre. At the time he was working on his new film -- A Drummer's Dream, and now it's screening at VIFF Monday October 4, 6:30 pm, and Wednesday October 6 at 3Pm!
“A Drummer’s Dream (directed by John Walker) is about half a dozen of the best drummers in the world, who are invited to a barn in cottage country in Ontario, where they perform and give classes. It’s remarkably introspective for a film about drumming.” Vancouver Sun.
By Katherine Dodds On October 02, 2010 | 0 Comments
Last year Eva Markvoort was honoured in person as the film about her life, and 65_RedRoses, the moving story of her double-lung transplant made by her friends Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall was the hit of the festival and won the Best Canadian Film Award and two others.
Tonight, a screening of a film called Leave Them Laughing is playing at VIFF, and tonight's screening is dedicated to Eva Markvoort.
By Katherine Dodds On June 20, 2010 | 0 Comments
65_RedRoses wins Best Canadian Program at Banff!
Press Release from Force Four Enteraintment issued June 18, 2010.
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.
By Katherine Dodds On June 18, 2010 | 0 Comments
In February we started working on our Hello Cool World vision. One strong area we felt we wanted to work on was to really make our online store a successful way to raise money and a new model for funding the campaigning efforts of our friends. As our 'regulars' will know - with the makers of The Corporation film,we are working on building a movement to change the corporate form, funded by our online store. With The Corporation, however, we are still only re-sellers of the DVDS, which we have to buy from our distributors, which doesn't leave much for the campaign.
Right now, we have a unique opportunity now to expand this work. We are working with the filmmakers of the award winning 65_RedRoses, a moving documentary about Eva Markvoort's struggle with Cystic Fibrosis. Without fully realizing it, Eva started a global campaign for organ donation in the spring of 2007, while she was waiting on a transplant list for new lungs.
We see the need for a new way for social cause filmmakers to distribute their films. Like 65_RedRoses. So we are also building a 'fair trade' DVD distribution network that can share profits for the causes and the creators of the films we support. 65_RedRoses is the beginning!
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