Charles Moore in Hits Vancouver

Famed scientist and TED lecturer Captain Charles Moore is in Vancouver right now! We're pretty excited that one of our eco-heroes (and star of our film) is able to make an in person appearance in our hometown. Come join us and Captain Moore at one of these locations for a great talk and signing of his new book Plastic Ocean.

All events are free to the public and proceeds benefit Algalita Marine Research Foundation.

• Wed, Feb 1      4:30pm SFU Downtown. Labatt Hall, Room 1700.
• Thurs, Feb 2    4:30 Capilano University, Main Theatre.
• Thurs, Feb 2    7:30pm Science World (sold out)
• Fri, Feb 3        12:00pm UBC. Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 182 Register at http://charlesmoore.eventbrite.com/
• Then he's heading to Kamloops.

Hope you can make it!

Winter Break

We've had a super busy Fall and are glad to be moving into winter. If you're in Red Lake, Ontario, you can catch The Clean Bin Project on Dec 3rd. If your university already has an educational license, be sure to let us know when you're having public screenings - we'll put it up on our screenings page to help attract more folks.

We have more festivals and community shows coming in the new year. In the meantime, if you're thinking zero waste this holiday season, check out our blog for ideas on low impact gifts and wrapping alternatives.

Southern and Coastal Charm

We had to split up for the first time last weekend. I headed to Tofino for the Tofino Film Festival and Grant headed to Wichita for the Tallgrass Film Festival. Both of us had fabulous times.

Tofino plays starts playing movies at 4pm, so I had plenty of time for relaxing and beach walking before film watching.The organizers work so hard to get great films and to get directors out to their gorgeous town, and it really showed. I got to see a slew of really good movies including How to Die in Oregon which won the Grand Prize at Sundance, so we were in pretty good company.

Grant missed his connecting flight and ended up renting a car and driving into Wichita at 3:30am, but it was reportedly all uphill from there. Despite his lack of sleep, he participated in a filmmakers meet and greet, a panel discussion, and had Q and A at a sold out screening. When he got home, he wouldn't stop talking about the welcoming people and the abundance of friendly volunteers and great food.

Better yet, although Kansas is apparently the worst state for sustainability, our film was really well recieved, and we garnered runner up for audience choice for Best Documentary!