CoastalTarSands.ca Launching Today

Today is WORLD WATER DAY and I’m honouring  it by launching my next media campaign

http://coastaltarsands.ca

There’s very little time left before the Harper government plans to approve the Enbridge Corporation’s Northern Gateway Pipeline Project in early 2014. This plan includes hundreds of supertankers navigating through the inside passage along the central coast of British Columbia, loaded with millions of barrels of Alberta Tarsands Bitumen for export to China.

This is one of the most pressing environmental issue of our time. These coastal waters are intense, the shorelines extremely rugged, and the environment extremely diverse. Before deciding its future people deserve to see more than animated TV ads, with glass calm waters absent of a maze of islands, produced by the Enbridge Corporation which is spending $350 million promoting its project.  My media project will reveal the reality of this incredible environment and I need your help to complete it. More details: http://coastaltarsands.ca

I’m taking an innovative approach to this media production by producing a series of short ‘mini-docs’ that I will post on the internet to meet pressing public deadlines, which will be combined to complete a full length documentary. I’ve started a fund raising campaign via Indiegogo to cover the production cost of the first ‘mini-doc,’ which needs to be released prior to the BC Election May 14. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/coastal-tarsands

Please join me by donating and help spread this message by forwarding to friends.

Bottom line! Oil and Water Don’t Mix!

Best wishes,

Richard Boyce

Producer/Director

Island Bound Media Works

http://coastaltarsands.ca

http://rainforestmovie.ca

Read Full Post »

À St-Henri, le 26 août – Screening Thursday Night

Great opportunity to see this film and pick up some information about Projet Montreal.

From the NFB page-

Glide along the boulevards of St-Henri with the charming perpetual motion machines that are this district’s diverse denizens, from the taciturn milkman to resourceful Doris the gleaner to a group of fashion-forward Mohawk hipsters. This kaleidoscopic romp through a semi-industrial neighborhood pays homage to Hubert Aquin’s 1962 film of the same name by seamlessly drawing together the work of sixteen cinematographers to capture everyday life in a vibrant working-class community on a single summer day. A thoughtful spatial metaphor in which people—the city’s vital force—flow through St-Henri’s streets, steam tunnels, train tracks, and magnificent central canal like blood throbbing through veins. In St-Henri, people are definitely on the move, not to escape from home, but rather, to revel in it. With an original score by Polaris Prize-winning musician Patrick Watson, this dawn-‘til-dusk collage provides a rare opportunity to see a community transform in front of one’s eyes.

Inspired by the 1962 ONF film “À St-Henri le 5 septembre”, this unique collaborative film brings together some of the brightest talents in the contemporary Montreal documentary community to capture this story.

Cher membre, chère membre,

L’association de Projet Montréal dans Le Sud-Ouest vous invite à la projection du film « À St-Henri, le 26 août », le jeudi 29 novembre, à 19 h, à la permanence de Projet Montréal. Le film est une reprise d’un classique de l’ONF, et nous sommes heureux de pouvoir rendre hommage à notre quartier adoptif avec le visionnement d’un film local, tourné en 24 heures dans cet ancien quartier prolétaire vibrant d’histoire.

Vous pourrez profitez de cette soirée pour rencontrer des personnalités du parti, ainsi que des membres de Projet Montréal et d’échanger sur les enjeux qui vous intéressent, ainsi que sur les réalisations du parti et les projets à venir.

L’événement se déroulera au 4000, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, à deux pas du métro Place St-Henri, de 19h00 à 22h00, afin de laisser place à la discussion avant et suite à la projection, qui débutera à 19h30. Le coût d’entrée est de 5 $ avec des boissons et popcorn à 1 $.

Vous êtes libres d’inviter des gens intéressés. Nous espérons vous y voir en grand nombre!

Pour plus d’information, veuillez communiquer avec nous au 514 390-0792 ou par courriel.

Au plaisir de vous compter parmi nous,

L’équipe de Projet Montréal dans Le Sud-Ouest

Projet Montréal

4000, rue Notre-Dame Ouest
Montréal (QC) H4C 1R1
Canada

514 390-0792
http://www.projetmontreal.org

Read Full Post »

Lost Rivers

Once upon a time, in almost every industrial city, countless rivers flowed. We built houses along their banks. Our roads hugged their curves. And their currents fed our mills and factories. But as cities grew, we polluted rivers so much that they became conduits for deadly waterborne diseases like cholera, which was 19th century’s version of the Black Plague. Our solution two centuries ago was to bury rivers underground and merge them with sewer networks. Today, under the city, they still flow, out of sight and out of mind… until now. That’s because urban dwellers are on a quest to reconnect with this denigrated natural world. Lost Rivers takes us on an adventure down below and across the globe, retracing the history of these lost urban rivers by plunging into archival maps and going underground with clandestine urban explorers. We search for the disappeared Petite rivière St-Pierre in Montreal, the Garrison Creek in Toronto, the River Tyburn in London, the Saw Mill River in New York, and the Bova-Celato River in Bresica, Italy. Could we see these rivers again? To find the answer, we meet visionary urban thinkers, activists and artists from around the world.

Il était une fois, des centaines de rivières sillonnaient nos villes. Pourquoi sont-elles disparues? Comment? Et pourrions-nous les revoir un jour? Ce documentaire tente de trouver des réponses en rencontrant des urbanistes, des militantes et des artistes visionnaires du monde entier.

 

Premiering in Toronto on October 10, 2012. Film features some of Montreal’s best known underground explorers.

Web Site of Catbird Productions

 

Read Full Post »

Green

Green The Film

Interview with Patrick Rouxel

Read Full Post »

À bout de souffle / Breathless

À bout de souffle / Breathless

Read Full Post »

La Chinoise

Released one year before the student protests in Paris in 1968 this film is still relevant in this time of the Occupy movement. Below is a description I like.

“Godard does not entirely dismiss the five radicals’ failed ideology as the product of naïveté and entrenchment in bourgeois norms, but his willingness to posit this as a possibility shows how well he tempers his own radicalism with a more holistic view of politics. “The revolution is not like a gala dinner,” says more than one character, and Véronique goes so far as to call for the destruction of France’s artistic institutions to ensure firmer commitment to the cause. Yet Godard, as ever, believes that the only true constant in life, the only invariably rewarding belief, is faith in the arts. Politics are messy, but art is pure. That underlying theme makes La Chinoise so surprisingly enchanting and viscerally entertaining in addition to its thoughtful ruminations, and the most radical element of the film is the director’s willingness to examine both sides of the coin when so many revolutionaries are scarcely better than propagandists.” From this page.

La Chinoise

Bonus Link  Noam Chomsky: “Students Should Become Anarchists” 

 

Read Full Post »

Alphaville

Low budget sci fi noir from Godard, you can do a lot worse.

“Lemmy Caution is a secret agent with the code number of 003 from “the Outlands”. Entering Alphaville in his Ford Mustang,^[3] he poses as a journalist named Ivan Johnson, and claims to work for the Figaro-Pravda. He wears a tan overcoat that stores various items such as aM1911A1 Colt Commander automatic pistol. He carries the then new cheap Instamatic camera with him and photographs everything he sees, particularly the things that would ordinarily be unimportant to a journalist. Despite the futuristic setting, references made in the film still set the action in the twentieth century.”

Alphaville

Some of you may want to check out the four minute shot that begins when Lemmy gets out of his car to enter the hotel in the clip below.

Read Full Post »

Eloge de l’amour / In Praise Of Love

This film is equally known for  it’s “attacks” on American culture in general and Stephen Spielberg in particular as it is for it’s hypercolour  last third. Godard at his best. I will let you Google the other stuff.

In Praise of Love

Read Full Post »

Occupy Love

About The Film

Occupy Love will be a moving, transformative feature documentary that asks the question: how are the economic and ecological crises we are facing today a great love story? 

A profound shift is taking place all over the world. Humanity is  waking up to the fact  that the current system that dominates the planet is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning.  The dominant paradigm is based on separation, as exemplified by the financial system, and the corporate emphasis of profits before people.

Our headlong rush towards infinite growth is destroying our communities, our ecology, and threatening our very existence.  The climate crisis is hitting us with droughts, extreme weather, floods, sea level rise and more, yet corporate lobbyists block any attempts at mitigation.  Unemployment is at an all time high, and the gap between the wealthiest 1% and the remaining 99% is growing alarmingly.  People are losing their homes, and the quality of life for the many is plummeting, while the few are raking in absurd profits.  Wall Street is making dangerous bets, greed is running rampant, and entire economies are collapsing.  Governments have been bought by the corporations, and many of us had lost hope.  Until now.

Read Full Post »

RAINFOREST The Limit of Splendour

The world premier will be screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2011:
Tuesday October 11 & Wednesday October 12

Inspired by his relationship with a Kwakwaka’wakw elder, the filmmaker embarks upon a cinematic journey contrasting the tree-farms that dominate the landscape surrounding his home with an ancient rainforest on the Pacific Coast of Canada.

This promises to be an awesome event. I saw some rough footage last year when the director, Richard Boyce, an old art school friend, was in town working on the post production, and it was very interesting material!

Read Full Post »

Montreal 60 Second Film Festival

Our 2011 screenings will take place the nights of Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17 at the magnificent Rialto Theatre.

$8 / Doors at 7:30 pm / Films around 8:00 pm

Dozens of one-minute movies, made by filmmakers across Montreal and beyond. With nonsense and slapstick, kids and kung-fu, stop-motion animation to personal documentary, this festival has something for everyone, made by an eclectic mix of professionals, amateurs and first-time filmmakers. Come see these mini-masterpieces on the big screen, with a cheering crowd.

We will be showing all films on both nights.

Tickets will be available at the door on Sept 16 and 17. But you can save time by buying them in advance – either online, here, or at the Phonopolis Record Store, 207 rue Bernard O, beginning Monday September 3. Service charges may apply.

Read Full Post »

Neverbloomer

Film by local filmmaker Sharon Hyman.

Are you a Neverbloomer? Personally, I think that growing up sounds too much like the end of the line and I am enjoying the process too much to want to get there in a hurry, what’s the rush?
Neverbloomers
Facebook

Read Full Post »

“Femmes Invisibles et Indivisibles”

Is a short documentary film by Maud Marcaurelle and Gabriel Garcia that will debut this Saturday night at Casa Cafi. There will be a discussion afterward and then a performance by Odaya, a native woman’s group. $5.00 suggested admission.

Read Full Post »