65 RedRoses (3)
By Sandy Haksi On August 23, 2010 | 0 Comments
SAVE ON 65_REDROSES, THE CORPORATION, PROM NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI & MORE GREAT DVDS!
Come celebrate the end of summer and support 'fair trade' DVD distribution! Hello Cool World will be having an open door sale at our Chinatown location this Friday afternoon:
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Sandy Haksi is the Web Campaign Manager and Sr. Writer at Good Company Communications.
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By Katherine Dodds On June 20, 2010 | 0 Comments
65_RedRoses wins Best Canadian Program at Banff!
Press Release from Force Four Enteraintment issued June 18, 2010.
Force Four Entertainment picked up the Banff Rockie Award for Best Canadian Program for the one-hour documentary 65_RedRoses at the Banff World Television Festival on Tuesday, June 15th. Directed by Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall, the film tells the heart-wrenching story of Eva Markvoort, a beautiful, high–spirited young woman with Cystic Fibrosis, as she awaits a double lung transplant.
By Katherine Dodds On June 18, 2010 | 0 Comments
In February we started working on our Hello Cool World vision. One strong area we felt we wanted to work on was to really make our online store a successful way to raise money and a new model for funding the campaigning efforts of our friends. As our 'regulars' will know - with the makers of The Corporation film,we are working on building a movement to change the corporate form, funded by our online store. With The Corporation, however, we are still only re-sellers of the DVDS, which we have to buy from our distributors, which doesn't leave much for the campaign.
Right now, we have a unique opportunity now to expand this work. We are working with the filmmakers of the award winning 65_RedRoses, a moving documentary about Eva Markvoort's struggle with Cystic Fibrosis. Without fully realizing it, Eva started a global campaign for organ donation in the spring of 2007, while she was waiting on a transplant list for new lungs.
We see the need for a new way for social cause filmmakers to distribute their films. Like 65_RedRoses. So we are also building a 'fair trade' DVD distribution network that can share profits for the causes and the creators of the films we support. 65_RedRoses is the beginning!
