Are you interested in bringing together your friends and neighbors for an entertaining and engaging conversation about global warming? This month the Sierra Club’s book and film club, Let’s Talk, is featuring Everything’s Cool, so you can do just that. Every other month Let’s Talk recommends an illuminating movie and book while providing background reading materials, tips on hosting a film club, and questions to help spark a good discussion.
Make your screening meaningful, check out the Sierra Club’s Cool Cities and Cool Counties campaigns and get involved by urging your local government to move forward with innovative energy solutions that curb global warming, save taxpayer dollars, and create healthier cities!
If you haven’t already seen Everything’s Cool, this is your chance! Just as many states are going into their presidential primaries, the Sundance Channel is broadcasting Everything’s Cool beginning Tuesday, January 22. Want to pressure the presidential candidates to make global warming a presidential priority? Invite your friends over to view the film and get involved with the organizations partnering with us on our Hot Leaders Cool Actions campaign: the League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club and Carbon Coalition.
Broadcast Schedule:
Tuesday, January 22 at 9pm Wednesday, January 23 at 2:10am
Friday, January 25 at 12:35am
Friday, January 25 at 10:35am
Sunday, January 27 at 3:35pm
Monday, January 28 at 7pm
Everything’s Cool is Opening for a One Week Run in NY and LA this weekend.
Please spread the word and come out to support this great film.
Downtown LA’s Laemmle Grande 4-Plex
345 S. Figueroa Street
Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90048
(213) 617-0268 www.laemmle.com Showtimes: Fri-Sun: 1:10 PM, 3:20 PM, 5:30 PM, 7:40 PM, 10:00 PM
Mon – Thurs: 5:30 PM, 7:40 PM
NYC’s Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street
New York, New York 10003
(212) 924-3363 www.cinemavillage.com Showtimes: 1:10 PM, 3:20 PM, 5:10 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:10 PM
Special NYC Question & Answer sessions Fri. Nov 23rd 7:00pm w/ filmmakers Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand and Adam Wolfensohn with character Rick Piltz Sat Nov. 24th 1:10pm w/ filmmaker Judith Helfand and Greenpeace Sat Nov. 24th 7:00pm w/ filmmaker Judith Helfand Sun. Nov 25th 7:00pm w/ filmmakers Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand and Green Drinks Mon. Nov 26th 7:00pm w/ filmmaker Daniel B. Gold and NY League of Conservation Voters Tues. Nov 27th 7:00pm (limited seating left) w/ filmmakers Judith Helfand and Adam Wolfensohn and NRDC Thur. Nov. 29th 7:00pm w/ filmmaker Adam Wolfensohn and Hazon
Everything’s Cool is a must see for anyone who is wondering whether to change their light bulbs or how to vote.
You can get the latest dish from co-directors Judith and Dan in their interview with the Traverse City Record Eagle. Judith and Dan were in town for a screening of Everything’s Cool at the Traverse City Film Festival, a relatively new but highly successful festival held in this Michigan city and started by the state’s favorite documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. For more information about the goings on in Traverse visit the festival’s official website.
On Sunday, April 15th Everything’s Cool co-director Judith Helfand and Robert West, co-founder and executive director of Working Films, participated on a panel at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival about using film to support the movement to end global warming. Working Films is coordinating the two-year audience and community engagement campaign for Everything’s Cool. The panel was sponsored by the Fledgling Fund and moderated by Fledgling’s founder Diana Barrett. Diane Weyermann and Lisa Day of Participant Productions were also on the panel speaking about An Inconvenient Truth.
The panel emphasized the need for filmmakers to listen to the needs of organizers in order to form a campaign that will effectively support the movement. Robert and Judith illustrated Working Films’ methodology for the audience by discussing their partnerships formed around the Everything’s Cool world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Audience members asked: What comes first, the film or the movement? The panel made it clear that it has to be a reciprocal relationship. Robert said, “the environmental movement – like all strives for justice – needs the skills of filmmakers, crafting the stories that will incite and ignite audiences. Film and video hold unique power to move audiences to action.” Judith explained that it is helpful to get feedback early on in the production process in order to create a movie that can be used as a tool for the movement. By working in close partnership with the organizations and activists on the ground, filmmakers are able to connect their stories to current campaigns and initiatives which take the film and audience to another level of engagement – action.
In support and recognition of Step It Up events happening nationwide on April 14th, Working Films and Toxic Comedy Pictures compiled the Everything’s Cool activist preview DVD for Step It Up organizers and volunteers.
This limited release activist DVD features selected scenes and characters from EVERYTHING’S COOL includes Dr. Heidi Cullen, whistle blower Rick Piltz – and very cool coverage from Sundance, including news casts and behind-the-scenes footage of the 1000 school kids’ aerial message that launched Step It Up.
Everything’s Cool will premiere in the Southeast on April 13th at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. After the screening, Step It Up organizers will be inviting the audience to participate in the Raleigh event on the state capital ground. In addition, the filmmakers and Wroking Films will also present a panel with The Inconvenient Truth on Sunday, April 15th at noon: “Reaching Out on Global Warming”. Wondering what to do AFTER your Step It Up event? Work with EVERYTHING’S COOL and keep the momentum going – Order your copy of the ACTIVIST PREVIEW DVD now!
In order to share more of our Sundance world premiere experience with everyone, Working Filmsand Everything’s Cool producer Chris Pilaro have created Flickr photosharing accounts. If you have any relevant photos, you can create an account and tag your photos with Everything’s Cool Sundance to make them searchable with ours.
Bish Neuhauser, a character in Everything’s Cool, was motivated to make biodiesel for his car, and eventually succeeded in pushing the ski resort where he worked to run their vehicles off of biodiesel. After a special screening for high school students, Bish made a visit. Check out what was catalyzed:
Working Films teamed with John Quigley of Spectral Q to direct a human aerial image encouraging the growing community concerned with the perils of global warming to take immediate action by stepping up our responses. This event launches a two-year audience and community engagement campaign organized by Working Films for the Sundance Film Festival film “Everything’s Cool.”
Approximately 1000 middle and elementary school students, along with the production team of Everything’s Cool and some of the main characters in the film, formed a message with their bodies, spelling out “Step It Up.” The image contains a circle with bear paws, representing carbon neutral footprints and a word in Inuktitut meaning: “I hear you and I am doing something about it.”
Park City’s students were sending a message back to the Arctic Inuit Community, where, as captured in Everything’s Cool, residents and activists on Earth Day 2005 lay on the Arctic Sea ice in 30 below temperatures sharing the ancient wisdom of their elders and warning the world about the devastating impact the melting arctic will have on the rest of the world.
“The themes and messages of this film arrive at such a critical moment in our struggle to see action on the issue of global warming,” said Robert West, co-founder and executive director of Working Films. “The image we’re created today demonstrates that each individual is a necessary part of the chain for change; by linking together, we can create a call to action.”
Working Films, Spectral Q and Cucolaris – who specialize in social messaging –jointly coordinated the event. This is part of a series of aerial images linked to the STEP IT UP Day of Action; the next will be created in Greenland in May of this year to encourage individuals and corporations to go carbon neutral.
Photo credits: top left: John Quigley, Spectral-Q; middle right: Working Films and Chris Pilaro
