SESSION 4:  Friday, October 14th, 3-6pm, Orpheum Theater

Journey to Keketouhai

China, 2011, 5 min.

Directors: Corey Rich

Producers: Aurora Novus

Patagonia ambassadors Tommy Caldwell, Hayden Kennedy, Jeremy Collins, and photographer Corey Rich head out to explore the unclimbed granite domes of Keketouhai, China’s “Little Yosemite.” What they find are big walls, a sage nomadic culture and interesting stomach bugs.

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Associated Website: CoreyRich.com
Associated Website: AuroraNovus.com
Associated Website: Climbing In Keketouhai

Credits: Originally shown at 2011 5 Point Film Festival

SESSION 4:  Friday, October 14th, 3-6pm, Orpheum Theater

Sound People

Belgium, 2008, 11 min.

Directors: 44 Children

Producers: Jean-Luc Slock

People in the world of sounds work together, collecting sounds everywhere in the nature. But one day, one of them wants to put more and more sounds in the machine. An animated film by 44 children, ages 10-11, from Bressoux De Gaulle, under the direction of Mathieu Labaye and Sebastien Godard.

SESSION 4:  Friday, October 14th, 3-6pm, Orpheum Theater

How to Boil a Frog

Canada, 2010, 88 min.

Directors: Jon Cooksey

Producers: Jon Cooksey, Shelley Gillen, and Teri McArter

This is the story of a guy who decided that he had to do something to make sure his daughter was going to have a future beyond living on a raft with the last polar bear. All he had to do was stop global warming, overpopulation, peak oil, social and economic injustice, and Humanity’s war on Nature, and get home in time for dinner. The film puts together the whole package of solutions, psychology of change, the bigger picture of environment, energy and economics, and of course humor.

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FilmShift Film Festival, Boston, MA USA Oct 2010
• Best Environmental Film award

Mammoth International Film Festival, Mammoth, CA USA Dec 2010
• Best Green Film

Los Angeles Movie Awards, USA Dec 2010
• Best Documentary
• Best Director – Documentary
• Best Concept – Documentary
• Best Visual Effects – Documentary

Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Nevada City, CA USA Jan 2011
• 2 screenings, 2 standing ovations

And many more that can be viewed at Jon’s Official website linked above.

Jon Cooksey – Writer, Director, Performer

Jon Cooksey is a writer/producer/director living and working in Vancouver. Jon has worked in all genres of film and television, including comedy, drama and family. As a writer, he has won Humanitas, Gemini and Cable Ace awards, and has now won multiple awards, as director and producer, for “How to Boil a Frog,” in which he acts as writer, director, producer and court jester. He’s also an activist, and founder of the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive. Jon is currently writing and consulting on 2 movies for Rob Stewart (“Sharkwater”), and writing a pilot script (“Commonwealth”) for eOne Entertainment and Shaw Media. Jon’s series “The Collector” won a Leo Award for Best Series, and was nominated for Best Series at the Monte Carlo International Film & TV Festival, based on its success overseas.