By: Jannie Vaught This weekend was spent inside planning and plotting next seasons garden plans and as my rain water barrels overflowed, I was quietly happy. This means more water on the garden a little hail damage but the moisture was worth the concern. Now with this big storm and all the great available nitrogen everything is ultra green. This is the gardeners constant state … Continue reading Next Season’s Planting
NEW FESTIVAL UNVEILS LINEUP OF SIXTEEN INNOVATIVE FILMS AND SPECIAL EVENTS, SET AMIDST THE BEAUTIFUL NATURAL LANDSCAPE OF MAMMOTH LAKES EVENTS INCLUDE OPENING NIGHT OF ALEX GIBNEY’S DOC “STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE” The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, held in the scenic and majestic setting of Mammoth Lakes, California, has announced its line-up of screenings for the festival’s inaugural year. The … Continue reading MAMMOTH LAKES FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL LINE-UP MAY 27th – 31st, 2015
In a few weeks the 2015 Festival de Cannes will start. Here is the Official Selection of the 2015 Festival de Cannes and the press conference. IN COMPETITION Opening Film Emmanuelle BERCOT LA TÊTE HAUTE (STANDING TALL) Out of Competition 2h00 *** Jacques AUDIARD DHEEPAN 1h40 Stéphane BRIZÉ LA LOI DU MARCHÉ (THE MEASURE OF A MAN ) 1h33 Valérie DONZELLI MARGUERITE & JULIEN 1h45 Michel FRANCO CHRONIC 1h33 Matteo GARRONE IL … Continue reading Official Selection 2015 Festival de Cannes Press Conference
By: Jannie Vaught Pollinators are in trouble especially in built up cities. It is up to the urban residents to provide nectar, pollen, and nesting options. Our native bumble bees are among our most important pollinators and they thrive in urban and suburban environments. Research has counted around 50 other types of Bees, carpenter bees, leaf cutters, borer bees, mason bees, sweat bees just to name a few … Continue reading Pollinators Are Getting By With A Little Help From Their Friends, The Gardeners
Esponda Productions, Vesuvio Entertainment, Rocky Mountain Pictures and Disarming Films are pleased to announce that “AN OPEN SECRET”, Amy Berg’s exposé of the alarming, and unchecked level of child sexual abuse in Hollywood, will have a 20-city US theatrical release beginning June 5, and will also have its international premiere at the 2015 Marché du Film in Cannes, next month. As a World … Continue reading “An Open Secret” To premiere at The 2015 Marché du Film in Cannes
With California in its fourth year of one of the worst droughts in modern history, and Governor Jerry Brown instituting sweeping restrictions on urban water use — more than 135,000 people in California and around the country are demanding that the California Water Resources Control Board immediately move to shut down Nestlé’s water bottling operations in the State. VIEW THE PETITION HERE: http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/NestleDrought/ The petition, … Continue reading Courage Campaign: Over 135,000 Demand the CA Water Resources Control Board to Shut Down Nestlé’s Water Bottling Operations in California Immediately
By: Director Brent E. Huffman Saving Mes Aynak is ultimately a story of hope. This is a film that is optimistic for a better future for Afghanistan, a country plagued by over 30 years of perpetual war yet containing one of the richest cultural histories in the world. This documentary is dedicated to Afghan archaeologists, like Qadir Temori, who face constant threats from the Taliban, … Continue reading A Message Of Hope And A Plea For Help to Save Mes Aynak
ARTEMQUIN, INDIEGOGO, AND VHX UNITE FOR INNOVATIVE DOCUMENTARY DISTRIBUTION AND ACTIVISM CAMPAIGN In a bid to save a 5,000 year-old Buddhist archeological site by raising international pressure on a Chinese state-owned mining company, the Afghanistan government, and UNESCO, the filmmakers of Saving Mes Aynak, are launching a campaign on Indiegogo, the world’s largest crowdfunding platform. Through the campaign the documentary’s director Brent E. Huffman and documentary collective Kartemquin Films (Life Itself, Hoop Dreams) … Continue reading “SAVING MES AYNAK” FILMMAKER PLANS GLOBAL SCREENING DAY TO STOP 5,000 YEAR-OLD BUDDHIST SITE IN AFGHANISTAN FROM DESTRUCTION
By: Jannie Vaught Smudging , Clearing negative energy Limpias are some of the names this is called. But the intention is all the same. Clear the stuffy negative feeling out to the great beyond so it can compost. Yes all of the energy’s have a cycle in nature. When I am in my garden I never feel the need to clear this space. Well the truth … Continue reading How About A Conversation About Energy Cleansing
By: Jannie Vaught The Three Sister Garden is a Native American way of sustainable agriculture through companion planting, in which one plant helps the others. Corn Beans Squash These make up the 3 sisters. These 3 “New World” foods have changed the course of human culture. The time is ripe to take a look at Native American Gardens. This is a system of gardening that … Continue reading The True Power Of Three Sisters
By: Jannie Vaught The weather is great for gardening now. Warm day’s with cool nights and possible rain! It can’t get any better. Outside the neighborhood was out digging and mowing and planting. Then the reminder came in that I gave myself last year at this time. Don’t plant to soon! Last year the excitement of spring and growing got me planting to early and … Continue reading Just A Reminder
By: Adrienne Vaught Join the Revolution! It’s NEVER too late! Using Earth Day to jumpstart a global conservation fundraising effort, director Rob Stewart has following up on his hit documentary “SHARKWATER” with the multiple award-winning “REVOLUTION”. The film was released on Earth Day, April 22, 2015. As part of a unique distribution strategy, Filmmaker Rob Stewart offered the film to the conservation community as a … Continue reading “Revolution” A time of action
By: Adrienne Vaught Based on a true story “Girl On The Edge” is a film every parent and young adult MUST see! Filmmaker Jay Silverman recounts the very real story of the vulnerable young Hanna Green with unrestricted and unsupervised access to the dangerous world of social media. A parent’s worst nightmares come to life. We find the broken and beautiful girl played exquisitely by Taylor Spreitler standing … Continue reading 2015 Louisiana Film Festival Review: Girl On The Edge Review
The Art Of Monteque in Association with The Ultimate Underground The endurance of love shown through the everlasting beauty of dance with Director Mitsuyo Miyazaki’s Short Film “Where We Begin”. “Where We Begin” premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and it will be screening again April 25th. In the film Sophia (Iris Karina) reflects on her past in the last hours of her life – … Continue reading “Where We Begin”: A Short Film About The Simplicity Of Love
Born in Colorado Springs, CO, Warren Stokes is a self-taught artist and mazeologist. During his early years he had a love for drawing sports and comics. But frustrated with the look of his people he never took art seriously. A trip to the library changed his life when he discovered the art of architecture, making his goal to become a professional architect and design houses. Unfortunately his first drafting class would be … Continue reading The Amazing Genius Of Maze Artist Warren Stokes
Connecting Independent Artists and Audiences in Two Key Global Locations Sundance Film Festival: Hong Kong to take place September 17-27, 2015 at The Metroplex Sundance Film Festival: London to take place in 2016 at new Picturehouse Central Sundance Institute today announced it will continue its film festivals in Hong Kong this year and London next year, with selections for each largely drawn from the Institute’s … Continue reading SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES 2015-2016 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS IN HONG KONG AND LONDON
By: Jannie Vaught Gardening is always 2 seasons ahead. We need to think 2 seasons ahead to be in a natural flow of plants and their seasons. Lets think about perennial wildflowers. These can thrive in a broad range of environments. Some of these will bloom the first year. all others will root and develop over a year with blooms the next year. Here are some … Continue reading Planting In Spring For Fall
By: Jannie Vaught The Blue Bonnets are crazy pretty this spring and all the wild flowers are showing. When the Indian Blanket’s start blooming then the diverse colors of nature really bring the full pallet of color, texture and intensity. A few ago weekend was full of digging, planting and mending. And my muscles were telling me all about it. ouch! But this is the … Continue reading Planting The Seeds Of Gratitude
By: Adrienne Vaught Edited By : Colleen Page “Boy Meets Girl” is a coming-of-age LGBT film in which Director Eric Schaeffer challenges the audience to take their preconceived ideas of the small rural American town, throw it out the window into the gutter where most preconceived notions belong. Combine that with our innate drive to belong to the society and bodies in which we are born and … Continue reading “Boy Meets Girl” A Message Of Unconditional Love: A interview With Director Eric Schaeffer
By:Vernon Nickerson Edited By : Colleen Page There have been some excellent films this year at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, there is one that should not be missed; that is ” Better To Live” short film that is packed with more emotion than a rollercoaster ride. The art of Montague was able to speak with the filmmaker of this wonderful and touching film … Continue reading A conversation with Director Linda G. Mills and her new short film, “Better to Live”
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