short shorts

Just wanted to note that as of today, warming is in the middle of its run in Tokyo at Short Shorts.
You can go here to see the full list of films in the Stop! Global Warming competition, and also to see a 1 minute web-preview of warming (about halfway down the page).

Warming and The Unforeseen

Warming will be screening twice daily from May 30-June 3rd (excluding Monday) at Metro Cinema in Edmonton along with the feature-length film 'The Unforeseen', which I haven't had a chance to check out but which looks awesome. Here's some more info on the screening and the feature film.

Warming will be in Spain at the beginning of June at the Catalonia Environmental International Film Festival, which takes place in Barcelona.

Warming has been invited to be a part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver in late May/early June. Additionally, it will be screening some time in the near future at the Ontario Science Centre as part of some Earth Week presentations.

Both of these screenings are thanks to Planet in Focus, which really is quite an incredible organization.

More news: 'Warming' will screen April 18-20 in the Lake Forest Film Fest, just outside of Chicago in Lake Forest, IL.

As well, it was accepted to the Short Shorts film festival in Tokyo, Japan, in the 'stop global warming' competition and the DerHumALC Human Rights film festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I haven't updated the actual website in a long time, since somehow I accidentally sabotaged Netscape Composer, which I had been using for easy editing. Hopefully I'll be able to fix that problem soon.

viewfinders

at the end of April, warming will be in Halifax again for the Viewfinders International Film Festival for Youth. It'll be showing on April 22nd as part of the 'Quest for Adventure' screening, alongside such amazing (incredibly amazing) films as 'Zhiharka', a Russian animated short adapted from a folktale.

Just got news that Warming won 'Honourable Mention for Most Inspirational Short Film (for ages 13 and up)' at the 2008 Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth.

Warming will be screening on Feb 9 in the Siskiyou Film Fest in Grants Pass, OR, as part of their "Teen Festival" program.

2008, off to a start

Warming will be playing in Vancouver at the end of February, at the Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth.
I don't remember ever actually applying for the festival, but somehow I am in it, so hooray!

Also, Warming will be in Toronto once again, this time at the end of April during the Green Living Show, as a special screening put together through the Planet in Focus festival.

Not too much new around here -- unfortuantely the Beirut International Documentary Festival has been postponed due to the "current stressed environment" in Lebanon right now, but hopefully it'll go up sometime next year.

On the home front, the first half of Novemember was littered with rejection letters, but the second half blossomed with invitations from other festivals. It seems some representatives from different festivals who saw 'Warming' in Planet in Focus and the NYC Shorts Festival now want to invite it to their own festivals, which is exciting.

Hopefully I'll have some more news regarding 2008 festivals in the next month or two, but for now....happy holidays!