By Katherine Dodds On March 06, 2008 | 1 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 Katherine Dodds On February 14, 2008 | 0 Comments
What is Dr. Z up to with his big machine? Soon you can check out our first messages from the Super Power Project: a youth-driven dating violence prevention project.
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 | 1 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 | 0 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 | 1 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".
