By Katherine Dodds On January 16, 2010 | 0 Comments
This time six years ago I would have been sitting through the early screening at Tinseltown as The Corporation had the beginning of it's almost record-breaking run there.
I would have been selling our devil-man tee-shirts for cash on the stairway, and marveling at the table action with our our activist cohorts, such as the Council of Canadians, and the lineups of hardcore fans that just wouldn't quit.
By Katherine Dodds On January 15, 2010 | 0 Comments
Tomorrow, January 16 marks 6 years since The Corporation launched in Canadian Theatres. That day it also screened at The World Social Forum in Mumbai, and at the Sundance Festival in Salt Lake City. As the decade turned, The Corp found itself in two "top ten" lists for the decade -- Eugene Hernandez of Indie Wire, lists is as on of the top 10 docs of the decade and Peter Hall of Hollywood.com puts in his top 10 of underrated movies of the '00's.
One of the things I have always noted is the staying power of this film. It remains the reason people find us as it's popularity is not waning.
Nettie Wild, another Canadian filmmaker friend of ours, maker of Bevel Up is celebrating as "Wild at Heart" a book about her films launches along with a retrospective of her films at Paciific Cinemateque in Vancouver tonight. Screening info below.
By Katherine Dodds On January 01, 2010 | 0 Comments
It's a time of reflection on where the need is, and on what one can possibly do to have any kind of impact. I prepared for the new year by having a donations frenzy yesterday afternoon for a number of alternative media venues that I regularly read. (List and links at the end of this blog). And thank you to all you HelloCoolWorld.com supporters that donated to GiveSomethingBig. If you missed the chance to send holiday cards, you can donate to Inter Pares anytime! We think they are worth supporting.
Now my thoughts my heart goes out to Gaza.
Last year around this time I was marching in the unusual Vancouver snow in protest against Israel's massacre in Gaza. This year I will head out in this grey drizzly Vancouver rain at 3pm to the art gallery in solidarity with Code Pink's Gaza Freedom March. Google Gaza or look on #Gaza, #gfm for an action near you. The international delegation experienced violence at the hands of the Egyptian police, who would not let them into Gaza.
By Katherine Dodds On December 22, 2009 | 1 Comments
One of the pleasures of working on the ‘GiveSomethingBig.com’ campaign for Inter Pares was meeting designer David Berman. He’s been working with the Ottawa-based social justice organization for 8 years. We had met on the phone during an earlier project -- but in the summer of ’08 we gathered in the IP board room, for a workshop with the data-boys from Exvisu, to talk about audiences, blogospheres and strategies to motivate giving.
As is our annual tradition, we are closing our webstore Friday, November 27 for Buy Nothing Day. It's the same day as Black Friday, the official kick-off of the Christmas shopping season where consumer mobs flood stores and ransack shelves in a frenzied quest for low, low prices. Hopefully this year no workers will be trampled to death in the ensuing hysteria, and we encourage everyone to give this deranged day of consumerism gone wild a miss. But if you really can't deny yourself, we love this faux website at Do The Green Thing where you can "shop your sustainable heart out and Buy Nothing™."
To show our continued support for the Give Something Big campaign, Hello Cool World and The Corporation are teaming up with the peace & justice organization Inter Pares for the Give Something Big contest! On December 14, we’ll be drawing for the Grand Prize which includes:
The Corporation 2 Disc Special Edition DVD
Give Something Big Holiday Card Collection Set (12 print cards & envelopes)
By Katherine Dodds On November 06, 2009 | 0 Comments
Hello Cool World's Colette Gunson, and Founder Kat Dodds are going to be joining many other media activists to give a workshop during the day-long event at the Vancouver Public Library. Read on for details of who is going to be there and what is going on...check out our HCW email (which can be forwarded) about the event and our participation.
By Katherine Dodds On November 04, 2009 | 0 Comments
#IranElection is trending topic on twitter again. 30 years after the Takeover of the US embassy and hostage taking in Tehran, the green movement hijacked the traditionally govn't sanctioned event. Photos and videos are pouring in from the demonstrations that have been going on. Reza Sayah was on CNN (now on Youtube) -he describes what has been going on. And for a great history of US-Iran relationship going back to the pre-Shah era check out this short youtbube mini-doc.
By Katherine Dodds On October 27, 2009 | 0 Comments
Sunday's fantastic concert at the Chan Centre was a sold-out success. Since MC Bill Richardson, Notes of Compassion (AKA musicians of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra reaching out), Maestro Bramwell Tovey, and the duet-ing duo of world renowned pianists Jon Kimura Parker and Ian Parker all performed for free, it is great to know that Health For Humanity will be the beneficiary of all the ticket sales. To find out more about what H4H does check out their website.
By Katherine Dodds On October 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
If you act now, you might still be able to get a ticket to Symphony for Smiles, Notes of Compassion’s Benefit concert for Health For Humanity featuring musicians of the VSO, Maestro Bramwell Tovey, with renowned pianists Jon Kimura Parker and Ian Parker. MC Bill Richardson. Last we heard there were less than 50 tickets left, so if this is your cup of tea click here now! The concert is this Sunday, October 25, at the Chan Centre.
By Katherine Dodds On October 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
Congratulations to Nimisha and Phillip on winning the audience award at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Consider becoming an organ donor, I just did! #ijustgavelife on twitter. www.65RedRoses.com
Now this is the part where it should go without saying, but I will say -- I am opposed to censorship, of films, filmmakers, and opinions, but I say, like Naomi Klein, that this is not the moment to celebrate Israel after what the world watched happen last December and how the year began: witnessing war crimes in Gaza.
I asked each speaker to summarize what they spoke about framed as Three ACTION POINTS. Rivershed's founder Fin Donnelly sent me the following three points summary.
1. Get to Know Your Rivershed
2. Reduce Your Impact
3. Get Active
The details are in the blog that follows. Also follow our #Waterlifefim converstaions on twitter!
By Katherine Dodds On July 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
THE LONG AWAITED VANCOUVER LAUNCH OF WATERLIFE -- THIS WEEKEND! Says Mark Achbar (The Corporation) "As an exec. producer on Waterlife, I had the pleasure and privilege to support and help shape this award-winning film, and to observe the working process of its director, Kevin McMahon. From the outset, Kevin had an exceptionally clear vision of what he wanted to do, and the finished work reflects the precision of his intention and command of his craft. Waterlife was deservedly awarded the Special Jury Prize at this year's Hot Docs, the most prestigious documentary film festival in North America. It was also recently invited by Michael Moore to screen at his film festival in Traverse City later this month." Special Events this weekend in Vancouver go to OurWaterlife.com for updates!
We’re in the research phase of a new campaign for BC Cancer Agency’s Cervical Cancer Screening Program (CCSP). We’re looking for feedback on materials to help us design messages that will increase the rate of Pap testing among young women. We've launched an online survey contest with the chance to win La Senza gift certificates. (BC women between the ages of 20-29 are eligible for the contest.)
Take the survey and pass the link on to your friends. The contest won't be up for long!
If you haven't seen it yet -- go to FIERCE LIGHT -- in theatres NOW in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal.
DOXA opened last night in Vancouver with Larry Weinstein's "Inside Hana's Suitcase" and a party at the VAG. WATERLIFE plays on Tuesday at DOXA. HelloCoolWorld and Rivershed Society community sponsors.
Today I went to the film: "Shooting Women" which was an inspiring doc about women behind the camera. Featuring over fifty women cinematographers and directors from around the world. It was shot over a period of six years by pioneering filmmaker and cinema studies professor Alexis Krasilovsky. Includes interviews from camerawomen from RAWA. (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan)
“We are the first camerawomen in Afghanistan ...” Mehria Aziz, Camerawoman (Kabul, Afghanistan)
The film was followed by a panel of feisty women discussing how Women Behind the Camera are underrepresented. Moderator Rina Fraticelli mentioned some stats from a study recently done that can be viewed at:www.pleaseadjustyourset.com.
I'm very pleased to announce that Velcrow Ripper's excellent new film "Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action" will be the first of four theatrical feature documentaries that I've helped produce to hit mainstream movie theatres. This is the best weekend to see Fierce Light if you possibly can.
-- Mark Achbar Producer/Director The Corporation, Executive Producer Fierce Light, Waterlife, Pax Americana, A Short History of Progress
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"HUGELY ENGAGING AND VISUALLY DELIGHTFUL." ~ Toronto Sun
"A POETIC CALL TO HEARTFELT ACTION." ~ Common Ground
By Katherine Dodds On May 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
Get ready! This Friday (May 15) Velcrow Ripper's award-winning film FIERCE LIGHT will open in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver (with other Canadian dates TBA).
Aside from the films, one of the greatest things about Hot Docs is the people you meet. Last night I had the pleasure of hanging out with some of the industry's luminaries as well as some exciting up-and-comers.
Cindy Witten, Director General of the English programme at the NFB with filmmaker Wim Wenders.
By Colette On May 03, 2009 | 0 Comments
Kevin McMahon's feature documentary, Waterlife, played to a full house at the Hot Docs documentary film festival last night. Afterwards, we headed to the Bata Shoe Museum to celebrate where there were more than a few familiar faces...
Hello Cool World's Colette Gunson is in Toronto to help promote Inter Pares' Take Back The Day Mother's Day campaign and to check out the Hot Docs film festival.
NEWSFLASH: VANCOUVER FLOWER ACTION IS AT 3:30 PM ON SATURDAY MAY 2 at THE DOWNTOWN LIBRARY ... WATCH THIS SPACE FOR PICS FROM MAY 1st EVENTS IN OTTAWA AND TORONTO!!
OTTAWA, TORONTO, VANCOUVER: As the saying goes, “Every mother is a working mother!” On May Day or International Workers’ Day, with Inter Pares we are hitting the streets in Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto as part of the build-up to our own Mother’s Day campaign.
Samantha McGavin of Inter Pares holding fair trade carnations, and dressed as one of the founders of Mother’s Day.
I'm happy to report news from Mark Leiren-Young's blog about the Green Chain being available free online in celebration of Earth Day.
"Big news for Green Chain fans around the world (outside of Canada). The Green Chain is now available online NOW at a website near you to celebrate Earth Day! The Green Chain is a film about the conflicts between people on both sides of the battle who love trees — and are willing to risk anything to protect their personal visions of the forest. (will be available on Dailymotion, Hulu and YouTube)" (Note: Canadian's the only one of these that will work is YouTube).
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT TO VOTE AGAIN ON U.S. IRAQ WAR RESISTERS ON MONDAY, MARCH 30th!
Please contact the Leader of the Official Opposition and your local Member of Parliament and ask them to support U.S. Iraq War resisters during next week’s vote. If the 163 members of the opposition parties can unite again, together we can defeat the 143 Conservatives who promise to vote against Iraq War resisters and deport them to jail in the U.S.
By Colette On March 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
Tomorrow, March 22nd is International World Water Day. Officially declared in 1992 when the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, World Water Day is meant to create awareness about the over 1 billion people world wide that lack access to clean, safe drinking water and to motivate action. Here's how you can get involved.
My friend Mark's film is getting it's theatrical debut this weekend. VANCOUVERITES Please flock to 5th Avenue Cinema and help us keep it going!! More info on extra events like the Suzuki Foundation sponsored panel on Saturday) at: TheGreenChain.com. We are also thrilled to be promoting Brett Gaylor's Rip: A Remix Manifesto which is at Doxa Festival in Vancouver this weekend, and opens in Montreal on Friday, info about locations and times at the official film site, and if you want to help us promote the film login to our outreach headquarters, or contact Colette at: outreach@hellocoolworld.com !!
By Katherine Dodds On February 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
My Alternet inbox brought me a reminder that the latest attack on Gaza may be over, but it must not be forgotten.
Media Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace. My first experience with Global Exchange was through the enormous support they gave The Corporation when we launched at the Castro in San Francisco. They were the hub for volunteers who blanketed the city with our leaflets and posters. Recently, moved and even re-politicized by what can only be described as the atrocities of what Israel has done to Gaza, I have been following what CODEPINK and Medea have been up to. To read about her trip last week to Gaza check out the article.
By Katherine Dodds On February 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
I'm at the Making Your Media Matter conference in DC listening to a panel on Money and Mission. Interesting times to try to promote and produce social issue work. I'm networking to find support for our own Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction, for our work with Bevel Up, and also to promote the recent Sundance hit, Prom Night in Mississippi.
By Katherine Dodds On January 12, 2009 | 1 Comments
Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction wrote Naomi Klein in The Nation, January 7, 2008.
It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
The only international news network covering every aspect of the war on Gaza is Al Jazeera English. The station isn't available in North America but you can watch it live in high-quality through www.livestation.com (player download is required).
By Colette On December 18, 2008 | 0 Comments
With just a week left before Christmas, we are in the midst of our last big push to promote Inter Pares' "Give Something Big" alternative giving campaign. We'd love your help!
By Katherine Dodds On December 17, 2008 | 0 Comments
Hey! I just donated to the Inter Pares Give Something Big campaign because I wanted to send some of the cool cards we designed to my own friends and family. FYI, we here at HCW are also donating all profits from our online store and C4CHR donations to Inter Pares this season.
To find out more about The Corporation and Hello Cool World's involvement in the campaign check out our last e'Zine.
By Katherine Dodds On December 08, 2008 | 0 Comments
We're thrilled to be launching this project with Inter Pares and hope that all our supporters will help build a world of equality, social justice, and peace.
By Katherine Dodds On December 01, 2008 | 0 Comments
As we work on the new video for Chee Mamuk (STI Division of the BC Centre for Disease Control) with youth from the Sto:lo Nation (and a few others) I am feeling very privileged to get to work with such great people on projects that I really believe will have an impact. Don't Stress the Tests is an excerpt of the video we did last year with youth in Chemainus. The new video we are launching later this month is called "Strong Path".
By Katherine Dodds On November 29, 2008 | 0 Comments
When I started Good Company Communications eight years ago I had a vision for what the web could do for social causes that came out of my previous 20 years of activism. It really started with Manufacturing Consent* -- the film that pulled me from my "separatist" world of no TV, no computer, and the attempt to exist without plastic, into the realization that we need to BE the media, it's too powerful to leave alone.
I was already working with Mark Achbar during the early days of The Corporation when I started all this, so as to have a way to not only promote the film's launch, but to work on sustaining the desire it produced in so many people -- to get involved, to shape change and to prevent profit over people from prevailing.
As we prepare to send out an e'Zine next week to all our HCW members, I am thinking about the projects we take on and how they interconnect.
By Katherine Dodds On November 25, 2008 | 0 Comments
What's new at HelloCoolWorld? We are getting ready to close our webstore for the annual BUY NOTHING DAY event. (Created many years ago by Vancouver artist and activist Ted Dave and taken up by Adbusters, now an international out of control anti-consumer activism day!) It happens when Americans traditionally start their post-thanksgiving shopping orgy that lasts until Christmas.
In these times, it does seem that unfettered consumption as a way of life has reached it's own bottom line. The day after BND we are going to be urging you to do a little more "Think-Buying" as now, it's more important then ever to support the progressive people, organizations, and causes that are also feeling the crunch as the financial crisis trickles down to their funders and donors making fund-raising more precarious.
We're thrilled to be working with Inter Pares this year on their alternative giving campaign -- Give Something Big! We're making it part of our Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction.
BEVEL UP follows street nurses in Vancouver's Downtown East Side (DTES) working with anyone who needs their care. Many of these people are homeless. Watch this blog for details of our ongoing work with the film and the issues it represents.
By Katherine Dodds On November 05, 2008 | 0 Comments
This morning, it is, as my friend Terry said last night when I phoned him from the party, a good day to wake up! Hurrah for President Obama, and remember all of you who got him elected, stay involved. That's the only way democracy stays "happening".
Mark & Siobhan drinking "Barack’s Fizz™". Read on for a full description!
By Katherine Dodds On October 24, 2008 | 0 Comments
I'll be partying tonight in Vancouver with Mark Achbar and Siobhan Flannagan celebrate (we hope) our US friends and Obama's victory. For an international look at how US elections work check out the BBC online.
I'd also like to encourage those in the US to go see the powerful film Trouble The Water — a true story about a remarkable couple in New Orleans — including a raw first-person video account of the hurricane as it hit them. The film documents them surviving not only deadly hurricanes, breached levees and armed soldiers, but reflecting after the fact on a government that has repeatedly failed them a powerful testament to why we need change NOW.
By Katherine Dodds On October 14, 2008 | 0 Comments
IN THEATRES NOW TORONTO AMC Yonge & Dundas AMC Kennedy Commons VANCOUVER Tinseltown MONTREAL AMC Forum (English) Latin Quarter (French) Cineplex, St Foye (French) More info at: battleinseattlemovie.com
By Katherine Dodds On October 07, 2008 | 0 Comments
Watching the new feature film of Battle in Seattle brought me right back there, I could almost smell the tear gas. The feature film depicting the real events in Seattle in 1999 comes out on Friday October 17 in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Check out the trailer. Battle in Seattle dramatizes real events with some high profile actors, but all the footage that isn't acted is actual footage from the WTO protest, collected from the many film crews that were there including the makers of The Corporation. It was the early days and Mark Achbar had three different camera crews running around Seattle.
By Katherine Dodds On September 26, 2008 | 0 Comments
French President Sarkozy says the days when "the all powerful market is always right are over". This footage part of a Real News Network video today that offers a less US-centric view of the alleged "bail out". Or, as economist and historian Dr. Michael Hudson tells the Real News crew, it's not a "bailout" but a "giveaway" and will create a new kleptocracy of billionaires.
By Katherine Dodds On September 25, 2008 | 0 Comments
The VIFF Is happening... last night DOC and POV celebrated 25 years with a party at the VanCity Theatre. Next week don't miss World Premieres of FEIRCE LIGHT, and BLUE GOLD ... watch this blog for info! TONIGHT join us at Radical Entertainment for a FREE evening of short online political films...
"Politube"includes a screening of our own Feminist Heritage Minute animation (created for Inter Pares a Social Justice organization based in Ottawa), our cohort Naomi Klein’s viral short film to promote The Shock Doctrine, our GNN pal Stephen Marshall’s "Channel Surfing the Apocalypse", and more!
5:30 -8 pm: NEW MEDIA BC Networking sessions (and I hear there is free beer if you get there early) 8-9:30pm “Politube” -- screening. Location: Radical Entertainment
By Katherine Dodds On August 07, 2008 | 0 Comments
Because of the box-office success of The Corporation Mark Achbar was given a performance envelope from Telefilm Canada which he has been using to support many social issue doc-makers. (I confess I am one of them, so my bias is showing.) While Mark was thrilled to get the money, he discovered there is a double standard when it comes to documentaries. (You can check out Mark's article in the latest POV.)
By Katherine Dodds On March 06, 2008 | 0 Comments
Short dating violence awareness messages directed by youth launch online. Meanwhile Canadian senate considers bills to censor violence on TV and to restrict tax credits to filmmakers whose content is deemed "not in the public interest'.Dialogue anyone??
By Lindsey Wasserman On November 15, 2007 | 0 Comments
Hello folks,
We’ve introduced a couple of new titles to our webstore this week. One of them is the unusually entertaining environmental doc “Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea”.
By Mike Cowie On September 20, 2007 | 0 Comments
Hello Cool World's first guest blogger is back! The ranting & raving Mike Cowie (of mikesanddislikes.com) puts The Shock Doctrine firmly in the latter category. Enjoy!
By Katherine Dodds On September 12, 2007 | 0 Comments
Want to share your thoughts on The Shock Doctrine with Naomi? Check out the Guardian blog and participate in the exclusive forums. Naomi is reading all the comments and will be weighing in later this week.
By Katherine Dodds On August 30, 2007 | 0 Comments
Sometimes life imitates art. In a disturbing twist of events, two days after the Halifax release of A Stone’s Throw, Camelia Frieberg’s feature film, an announcement was made about the re-opening of the Moose River Gold Mines in Nova Scotia.
By Katherine Dodds On March 22, 2007 | 1 Comments
Can We Build A Better Hero? It’s a question worth asking! We are thrilled that the proposal we put together as a partner with Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) to do an innovative violence prevention project with youth in BC has been awarded a grant from the provincial government!
By Katherine Dodds On February 14, 2007 | 0 Comments
The Won’t Get Weird Campaign is up and running! And today is Valentine’s Day – which is Good Company’s 6th anniversary – now we are six! We’re proud of the fact that we’ve been putting safe sex in advertising where it belongs since 2001. : ) What better time to celebrate the launch of our new viral video for Options for Sexual Health (OPT).
By Katherine Dodds On February 08, 2007 | 2 Comments
I get the New York Times Headlines in my inbox everyday. This weekend's chilling, but utterly unsurprising story was on the "unequivocal" nature of scientist's warnings and that "human activity" is the main driver…" And there was that sad image once again of polar bears balancing on shrinking ice floes. Since I spent my childhood in Canada's arctic,
By Katherine Dodds On November 22, 2006 | 0 Comments
We were overwhelmed by one question during the first year of The Corporation's launch: Everyone asked us : "What can I do?" Now we're right backatcha asking: What have you done? In order to develop the Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction, we want to collect your stories about what the film inspired you to do, and what the result was. And if you've heard of things other people have done let us know too.
By Katherine Dodds On October 20, 2006 | 1 Comments
I saw Jennifer Baichwal's film for the first time at the Vancouver Film Festival last week. Last night it opened in Vancouver (it's been playing for several weeks in Toronto) and it will open in other Canadian cities soonI've seen a fair amount of films lately, but the flashbacks from this "art and horror" flick have been haunting me. The visual vastness of Peter Mettler's cinematography, punctuated by Edward Burtynsky's still shots, perfectly portrays the dark soul of Walmart and its kin. Manufactured Landscapes lays bare what globalization, mass-market consumption, and techno-waste actually looks like.
By Mike Cowie On October 11, 2006 | 0 Comments We came across bristling blogger Mike Cowie & his hilarious rants about our latest campaign project - The Big Picture with Avi Lewis - and we just had to share. So please enjoy HelloCoolWorld.com's first guest blogger!
By Mike Cowie On October 02, 2006 | 1 Comments
I hope you all checked out Avi's show again last night ("The Big Picture with Avi Lewis: Part 3 - Can We Save Planet Earth?"). Debating how to deal with global warming may not have stirred up quite as passionate of a debate as the shows from the past two weeks on torture and religion did; but, really, it's the much bigger - and much more important - topic by far.
By Mike Cowie On September 21, 2006 | 0 Comments
An open letter to all those who made the smart choice and watched Avi Lewis' show on CBC last night ("The Big Picture with Avi Lewis Part 2 - The Root of All Evil - Is religion the root of all evil in the world?")
By Katherine Dodds On August 31, 2006 | 0 Comments
Earlier this month I traveled to Sao Paulo and Rio, in Brazil, to participate in the Visible Evidence Documentary Conference. Invited by Concordia Communications Professors Liz Miller and Tim Scwhab to be part of their panel "Branding Politics — Emerging Forms of Distributing Political Documentaries", this was an opportunity to reflect on what we are trying to achieve with HelloCoolWorld and our work as idea distributors and net workers. (Or "discourse networkers" in more academic parlance!) Thanks to a travel grant from the Canada Council I was able to attend this conference and it was a real opportunity to think our collective project through in an inspiring setting.
By Katherine Dodds On July 24, 2006 | 1 Comments
We at HelloCoolWorld are thrilled to be helping to promote the release on DVD of the film Winter Soldier. Described as one of the "most devastating anti-war films ever made," by Time Out New York, the film itself is both historically important and unsettlingly relevant to the state of the world and war today. But it was the DVD extras which had me thinking, again, about the power of documentary to not only to move viewers, but to influence participants.
By Katherine Dodds On July 08, 2006 | 0 Comments
The summer is speeding by. A quick mind-reconnaissance of the past two weeks sees us sipping champagne to celebrate the Woman of Vision Award that Women in Film and Video Vancouver honoured me with at their Gatsby-themed Spotlight Gala. (Was it already two weeks ago??)
By Katherine Dodds On June 19, 2006 | 2 Comments
It's a frighteningly busy week for us at HelloCoolWorld, we are in the midst of launching the promotion for a very fabulous film — Winter Soldier, and tying it in with our already ongoing promotion for Scared Sacred. We hope to do some co-promo for these films with the World Peace Forum that starts later this week.
By Katherine Dodds On June 17, 2006 | 1 Comments
Today's New York Times Headlines (that conveniently pop up in my inbox around 4am PST every day) has one that caught my eye: Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy.
By Katherine Dodds On June 16, 2006 | 0 Comments
Hello. When I first envisioned the possibilities of Hello Cool World, the web wasn't making things as easy as they are right now. And even before I even started trying to do we are trying to do, all to often, there I was, all heady with crazy-sounding visions of what could be done, but when I talked to progressive leaning folks this excitement was dampened by omnipresent back-ground whine about "access".
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My friend Mark's film is getting it's theatrical debut this weekend. VANCOUVERITES Please flock to 5th Avenue Cinema and help us keep it going!! More info on extra events like the Suzuki Foundation sponsored panel on Saturday) at: 
