wow! - vancouver premiere

Wow!  What an amazing crowd of people you were who came down to Granville 7 Cinemas last night, waited patiently in a HUGE line up, and waited even more patiently for an entire hour while the theatre struggled with technical difficulties. 

To say it was stressful is an understatement, but when we finally switched theatres and got the show going at 8pm, everyone was still in good spirits, and Grant and I were so relieved, we could have cried.

Thank you, thank you for hanging in there! We were completely overwhelmed with how many people came out.  We had a theatre of 340, which I had thought was a little large, and we actually ended up selling out!  (If you didn't make it in, I promise we'll be back later this year). 

It was also great to see how many people got our last minute message about bringing your own mug; the concession people actually commented that quite a few people partook, and they all thought it was a cool idea.  Thanks to the cinema for agreeing to charge our reusable mug-ers for only a small beverage regardless of size. 

excitement!

Lots has happened in the last week!  On Wed night, Grant and I won a MOBI award from the Recycling Council of British Columbia (RCBC) for excellence in journalism and media.  We aren't journalists, or even professional media people, so we were truly honoured to receive it for our blog/film/social media efforts to do with waste reduction and awareness. And it feels pretty darn good to start our tour off with an award under our belt.  Brock Macdonald, the Executive Director of RCBC kept walking around and saying "hey look, an award winning filmmaker" when he saw us. Thanks Brock.

We also garnered another sponsor!  More on that later.

On Thurs we had our first screening of the film, and it went over really well. Sure, you could argue that the people who attend the RCBC conference are already on board with our message, but we were still really happy that it got people excited.  Two people came up afterwards and said they were going to give The Clean Bin Project a try, and I kept getting hugged by strangers.  What more could you ask for?

And tonight is the big Vancouver premiere!  I've been glued to the computer answer questions via twitter and facebook and emailing like crazy.  I feel like practically everyone I know will be in attendance.  (Someone joked that Grant and I should just get married on stage since we've got our entire family in one place) If you live in Vancouver and can't make it, don't worry, we'll be back in the fall.

Thanks to our buddy Keith who managed to get us a mention on CBC radio yesterday! And check us out in the Georgia Straight!

we're offically classified - bring on the kids

Today the Clean Bin Project was officially classified by Consumer Protection BC.  Low and behold, we got a G for General.  Actually, we weren't surprised at all, but we do feel like big time film now.