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Shelter: a look at Manchester’s homeless from Mike Staniforth

October 22, 2012 at 5:38 pm / Culture, Food For Thought, Indie, Inspiration, Society

OFFICIAL SELECTION No/Gloss Film Festival Leeds 2012 OFFICIAL SELECTION Greater Manchester Film Festival (GMFF) 2012 OFFICIAL SELECTION The Smalls London 2012 **TIP JAR** Please consider using the tip button if you like the film. I will donate 50% of the total tips to a local homeless shelter in Manchester and the rest will go toward the budget for the follow up feature documentary hopefully going into production in 2013. This is my debut documentary starring some unforgettable characters who all [...]

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Banking on the Future by Geoff Dunlop

October 20, 2012 at 6:47 pm / Banking, Inspiration, Money

Tens of thousands of children live on the streets and in the public spaces of Delhi, the capital of India. A few hundred of them come within the orbit of Butterflies, an organization determined to equip for them for a better life. Butterflies gives homeless boys shelter from the elements, protection from violence and a chance to get an education that has been denied to them. And in this developing economic superpower, the street boys are encouraged to become financially [...]

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Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker by Made by Hand

October 20, 2012 at 6:43 pm / Artisans, Food For Thought, Inspiration

A project from bureauofcommongoods.com, Made by Hand is a new short film series celebrating the people who make things by hand—sustainably, locally, and with a love for their craft. In our second film, we meet writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn. He talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art. And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a movement whose riches are [...]

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PressPausePlay from House of Radon

October 20, 2012 at 3:13 pm / Culture, Eureka, Food For Thought, Indie, Inspiration

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era. presspauseplay.com @presspauseplay Facebook: on.fb.me/y4gEK1

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Cultural Displacement from Luis M. Jara

October 19, 2012 at 10:10 pm / Culture, Eureka, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Performance

This short film looks to explore the most characteristic and common feelings which migrants have to go through (limbo, identity, immigration and adaptation) whilst trying to integrate into a new system and culture, which in this case it is to become a Londoner. We used contemporary dance as it is one of our passions and to also demonstrate these feelings in a non-verbal manner, combining cultures, using different attires with distinct fabric, music styles and dance genres, performed by international [...]

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Greenpeace – Save the Arctic

October 14, 2012 at 10:03 pm / Environmental, Envronmental, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productions by You and I Films

The Arctic is one of humanities last pristine environments. What lays beneath and what would be effects of any environmental damage be? What can we do to save the Arctic? In the last 30 years, we’ve lost as much as three-quarters of the floating sea ice cover at the top of the world. The volume of that sea ice measured by satellites in the summer, when it reaches its smallest, has shrunk so fast that scientists say it’s now in [...]

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Polly Higgins supporting Seed Freedom

October 14, 2012 at 9:28 pm / Agriculture, Environmental, Eradicating Ecocide, Food For Thought

Seed is the source of life and the first link in the food chain. Control over seed means control over our lives, our food and our freedom. The Seed Freedom video was created for a campaign which ran from the 2nd of October 2012 (Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary), till the 16th of October (World Food Day) the Global Alliance for Seed Freedom is planning intensive actions to create a global citizens’ response on the issue of Seed Freedom that we hope [...]

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