One Day On Earth

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Join us on 10.10.10 for an unprecedented event. Every Nation, 24 hours and You.

On October 10, 2010 (10.10.10), across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24-hour period and contribute their voice to the largest participatory media event in history.

Founded in 2008, ONE DAY ON EARTH is creating an online community, shared archive, and film. Together, we will showcase the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occur in one day. We invite you to join our international community of thousands of filmmakers, hundreds of schools, and dozens of non-profits, and contribute to this unique global mosaic. Through the One Day on Earth platform, we will establish a community that not only watches, but participates.

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Join us on 10.10.10 for an unprecedented event. Every Nation, 24 hours and You.

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The End of the Line Trailer

 

Olivia Chow presents THE END OF THE LINE tonight at the Bloor Cinema.
Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine the global consequences. Join MP Olivia Chow on Wednesday, September 15 at 6:30 for THE END OF THE LINE, a powerful film about one of the world's most disturbing problems – overfishing. Stick around after the film for a discussion with Greenpeace Executive Director Bruce Cox. For more information visit http://oliviachow.ca/endoftheline. FREE!

Watch HOME. Online viewing and discussion Thursday Sept. 9th

Watch HOME on Doc Op or www.pushfoodforward.com

on Thursday September 9 at 8:00 PM EST

 

Food Forward is partnering with Doc Op, to host an interactive online screening of Home, a documentary on the sustainability of the planet under present human systems, including agriculture and energy use. Darcy Higgins of Food Forward will be on hand by video conference to discuss the film's implications for life and policy choices in Toronto, after screening a portion of the film.

"The film HOME by Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a beautifully shot panorama of the Earth and the damage done to it by modern humanity. It includes a moving narration about the evolution of the Earth, nature, agriculture, humans, and the crises of habitat destruction, energy depletion, climate disruption, degradation... of the environment, health, economic disparity, and more."

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Toronto (Time Lapse)

Concealed Music in Scottish Chapel Discovered

I visited Roslyn chapel in Scotland with David in 2005. It is the chapel featured near the end of the book and movie, 'The DaVinci Code'. It is very, very beautiful and almost all of the surfaces are carved stone. Legend has it that there are secret messages in the ornate and patterned carvings inside the old church. Click the title above to link to the website of the composer and musician who discovered the hidden music.

Director David O. Russell flips out on the I Heart Huckabee's set.

Farrow: "Spielberg Could Become Leni Riefenstahl of Olympic Games"

Actress Mia Farrow has condemned director Steven Spielberg for aiding China's staging of the 2008 Olympic Games, warning he could become known as "the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games." Farrow, a United Nations UNICEF goodwill ambassador, launched an impassioned appeal on behalf of African victims in the over-spilling Sudan crisis earlier this month. And The Omen star, 62, is astonished so many big names and corporations like Coca-Cola and McDonald's are also readily lending their support to what they have dubbed 'The Genocide Olympics', because China openly supports the government of Sudan. She writes in a Wall Street Journal article, "That so many corporate sponsors want the world to look away from that atrocity during the games is bad enough. But equally disappointing is the decision of artists like director Steven Spielberg - who quietly visited China this month as he prepares to help stage the Olympic ceremonies - to sanitize Beijing's image. Is Mr. Spielberg, who in 1994 founded the Shoah Foundation to record the testimony of survivors of the Holocaust, aware that China is bankrolling Darfur's genocide?" Farrow went on to warn the Schindler's List director that he risked becoming a modern version of Nazi propaganda filmmaker Riefenstahl, who is famed for her 1936 Berlin games film Olympia. She writes, "Does Mr. Spielberg really want to go down in history as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games? Do the various television sponsors around the world want to share in that shame? Because they will. Unless, of course, all of them add their singularly well-positioned voices to the growing calls for Chinese action to end the slaughter in Darfur." According to official United Nations figures, more than 200,000 people have died and more than two million have been displaced since the rebels and government forces first clashed in Dafur in 2003.