WELCOME to the Green Lifestyle Film Festival's (GLFF) new website.

It is currently under re-construction so please be patient with us as we create a new, inter-active website where you will be able to participate with blogs, recommendations of films and filmmakers or just share your own ideas and concerns about the present day use of films to perpetuate violence and fear, and most of all, share your solutions.

We will have a Filmmakers' Corner where you can interact with the film makers from time to time, and we are also building resources for budding film makers.

All this takes a lot of time to put together so please feel free to assist us with your own ideas. When you do, if you do not see a response soon, please know that it is under consideration and might simply take some time to implement since we are a community based, volunteer supported non profit organization.

For the latest UPDATES  re: the 19th-21st March 2010 Green Lifestyle Film Festival:

Please see OUR GREEN CARPET page on this website

And our  NewsFlash Page

Our keynote speakers for the Friday 19th March 2010 Opening Ceremony were:

GLFF Keynote Speaker:

1. BILL RYERSON:

Population Media Centre was founded in 1998 by William Ryerson, with the intention of using the extensive experience of experts in entertainment-education to spread the application of the Sabido methodology in addressing population and reproductive health issues. In the ten years since PMC’s inception, the organization has been a pioneer in the use of new methodologies for informing people about reproductive health issues and promoting behaviour change.

For additional information please see the website:

http://www.populationmedia.org/

Our other distinguished  keynote speaker was:

Dorit-      GLFF Founder & Author

www.serenityspaces.org

OTHER UPDATES:

All the Friday night opening activities and festivities were streamed  live for those around the globe who are unable to attend. See the  LIVE STREAMING page on this website to see what thas been archived

Please check back for recent photos and videos. We are in the process of editing the large amount of raw footage shot during the film festival and we will be posting them here  as well as on our FaceBook account as soon as they are available.

We are so glad that our beloved  songwriter and singer of our GLFF  theme song:

SONG FOR THE OCEAN, Kristin Hoffmann  joined us once again in person from New York.

You’d be hard pressed to find an artist quite as genuine as Kristin Hoffmann. Over classically-inspired piano and guitar parts, Kristin weaves her vocals through tales of life’s many journeys. “The whole record is about being true and real to yourself,” says Kristin. “It’s about the real human emotions that we all feel and ultimately finding light, peace and balance.” At just 26, she’s an old soul with a knack for musical storytelling.

At four years old, Kristin began playing piano, and before long, was writing her own songs. And from there on, she never stopped, taking classical piano and voice lessons through her teenage years and then picking up the guitar somewhere along the way. Eventually music became a way of life for her. Kristin was accepted to the Juilliard School of Music’s pre-college program and began studying opera, secondary composition and classical composition; she became influenced by Samuel Barber and French Impressionists like Ravel. “Opera training really molded my voice into what it is today. Once you study classical voice you can go anywhere with it,” says Hoffmann, who also found inspiration in popular artists like Joni Mitchell, Peter Gabriel and Radiohead. She soon realized she could marry the two, creating her own unique blend of classical and contemporary music. “I got a lot more joy out of creating my own music and having it touch people. It was just an unmatchable feeling.”

After Juilliard, Kristin spent a year at NYU and her songwriting evolved as she combined her classical roots with accessible pop sensibilities. She was briefly signed to Capital Records, but ended up self-releasing her first album Divided Heart, which she not only wrote, but co-produced, engineered and recorded. All the while, Kristin continued to hone her performance skills with a residency at Café Vivaldi in Manhattan’s West Village. Along with playing some 200 shows, selling 3,000 copies of Divided Heart and securing a loyal local following, As the buzz grew louder, Kristin was discovered at Vivaldi by Interscope and soon after signed to the label.

After enlisting her longtime musical collaborator Darian Cunning, along with producer David Bottrill (Peter Gabriel, Tool), Kristin escaped to Longview Studios to make the album she’d always dreamed of. “I really had a very special, deep experience writing this record,” she explains of her time in the converted farmhouse studio in the middle of pretty much nowhere. In all that quiet open space, and with the help of a great piano left behind by Keith Richards, Kristin’s songs evolved with love and care.

Using her piano as a vehicle for her voice, Kristin keeps her instrumentation simple, so the gorgeous melodies and lyrics resonate with the audience on songs like “Home,” which is about finding inner-strength, “Bittersweet,” a song about choosing to follow your dreams over taking the safer path and the title-track “Real,” a song about being true to yourself.

Of her live performance, Kristin muses, “I hope to stimulate my listeners to go deeper within themselves to places they may be reluctant to go. I’ve come to realize that my greatest challenges have emerged from my mistakes, and that they were really blessings in disguise.” Through her gift for songwriting, Kristin illustrates spectacular sonic stories. “My music can reach across a lot of generations,” says Kristin of her varied audience. “Connecting to people by creating music is my contribution to the world.”

Please join us via our videos in enjoying Kristin' magnificent voice  and singing along with her on Opening Night at UCLA and on closing night at the Gala Awards Dinner ( a black tie affair).

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(One tree is planted for every ticket sold)

Call for Action

Please join with  us as we  partner with the West Side Food Bank in creating the first Vegetarian Food Bank in the USA ( the only other Vegetarian Food Bank in North America is in Toronto, Canada and was founded  by a meat eater  who is married to a  Hindu lady).

We launched this with a Vegetarian Food Drive (Organic or wild crafted ) during the 2010 film festival in the  OutDoors Arena which was open free of charge to the public all weekend long.

SOVA are the distributors for this historic Organic and wildcrated Vegetarian Food Drive & Disaster Relief.

Please bring your contributions tto the West Side Food Bank in Los Angeles. For all information on how to participate please see the VEGETARIAN FOOD DRIVE page on this website.

MEDIA/PRESS

MEDIA at the 2010 GLFF:

For those of you who  asked about tuxedo rentals for Sunday night's black tie Gala Awards Dinner:

We received the following information from:

Friar Tux has several locations.

Two are on Wilshire and one is  in West Los Angeles. Request to speak with the manager or ask for Steve Meskell. Call  the stores at: