Everything's Cool

Everything's Cool is a documentary about responding to the global warming naysayers...

Body of War

Body of War is a new documentary about what happens to a soldier who returns home paralyzed after fighting in Iraq...




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Good Copy Bad Copy

Good Copy Bad Copy is an excellent new documentary from Denmark that reviews the current state of copyright law and its relationship to creative culture, using a range of international interviews. Watch the entire hour long film below (also worth checking out is the work in progress Copyright Criminals)...



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10 Miles Per Hour

Trailer for the documentary 10 MPH about riding a Segway scooter across America. The filmmakers are letting folks download the entire 92 minute film for free...

What Would Jesus Buy?

Just in time for the holidays, What Would Jesus Buy is a documentary about Reverand Billy's radical anti-consumerism campaign from Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame...


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e-waste documentary

eDump is a documentary by Michael Zhao about the problem with electronic waste. It follows America's 2.6 million tons of annual e-waste as it travels to foreign countries for recycling and the pollution and health problems it causes along the way. This powerful short film can be watched in its entirety on Zhao's site HERE. Find out more about e-waste HERE.






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King Corn Trailer

King Corn looks like it will be an excellent companion to the book Omnivore's Dilemma. Watch the trailer here...



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Media That Matters 7

The winners of the seventh annual Media That Matters Film Festival are now online. The sixteen featured documentaries are 8 minutes or shroter and range in subject matter from garbage recyclers in Egypt to 5th graders in the Bronx who try veganism. Watch them all here.

Sicko Memo

Michael Moore recently posted a leaked memo from the Vice President of Corporate Communications of Capital Blue Cross in response to a viewing of his new film Sicko. Say what you want about Moore, his films clearly have an impact. Here's an excerpt:

You would have to be dead to be unaffected by Moore's movie, he is an effective storyteller.
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Moore's movies are intentionally intense and his objective in Sicko seems to be to revive the earlier Clinton efforts - not to achieve universal coverage with this movie, but to push the topic to the top of the agenda. He will be just as successful whether proponents mount momentum or discussion entails key stakeholders defending why it won't work.
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Ignoring its impact might be a successful strategy only if it flops, but that has not been the history of Moore's films nor the way this one appears to be headed. If popular, the movie will have a negative impact on our image in this community.
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I believe the most successful strategy will not be in attacking the movie for its weaknesses or misperceptions, but in distancing ourselves and our brand from the groups and motivations he attacks...

Read the whole thing here.

Tsunami Orphan Music Video?

Actually these are the credits for a new documentary AmmA, about orphans in Sri Lanka, which is in its final stages. To find out more at Simba Share.

Czech Dream

What happens when you trick a city into thinking you're building the first big box store in the region? Apparently you get that the crap beat out of you. At least that's what happens to the people behind the documentary Czech Dream (which is now playing in select US cities). Color me intrigued to find out the whole story...



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Making Waves

A new BBC documentary about Hawaii and the environment, called Message in the Waves, caused a city in England to ban plastic bags after resident and filmmaker Rebecca Hosking set up a screening. From a recent article in the Christian Science Monitor, which follows the continued downfall of the cheap disposable plastic bag used by grocery stores (500 billion of which are used annually worldwide):

Dumbstruck by what she'd seen off the Hawaiian coast during her year-long filmmaking trip, Hosking set up a local screening of her film and invited the town's 43 shopkeepers to come see where plastic bags end up.

All but seven of them showed up. At the end of the viewing, held in a local hall, Hosking called for a show of hands in support of a voluntary ban on plastic bags. Every single hand went up. The rest of the town's shopkeepers quickly followed suit. On May 1, Modbury won bragging rights as the first plastic-bag-free town in Europe.

Read the entire article here.

Watch the trailer clips from the Message in the Waves here.

Crispin Glover on Corporations

While David Lynch's comment about product placement was amusing it's also nice to hear a more nuanced discussion of the problem with corporate movie making from Crispin Glover on VBS.TV.

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David Lynch on Product Placement [NSFW]

A lovely succinct response by master filmmaker David Lynch on the practice of Product Placement (definitely not work or kid safe)...




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