THE GREEN LIFESTYLE FILM FESTIVAL'S TEEN/PRE-TEEN PROJECT


"You are here to serve others, to be a light for them, to participate in their lessons and to help heal humanity. You are also here to serve yourself, to heal your karma, to enable your soul's growth and reconnect to the Source. Your challenge is to find a balance between serving others and yourself so that you can accomplish the tasks that you established for yourself in this lifetime and even go beyond that. How you view your role in serving others is an important part of this process." ** URIEL HEALS By Jennifer Hoffman**

The SpokesPerson for our Teen Project is: MAXSO

www.myspace.com/maxsotheartist and youtube/maxsotheartist. 

 
Our Teen/Pre-teen Project brings the voices of our children on film.

With enough sponsorship and funding, our intention is to connect with children lost in violence and abuse and teach them how to get their stories told through film and photographs and on page as scripts or essays, while making the connection to their own personal experiences and show how this is mirrored in the environmental issues we are all facing now, with the focus being on offering solutions.

The Green Lifestyle Film Festival started as the vision and constant, day to day arduous work of one person ( Dorit) working long hours to make it a reality. It has grown into 18 more dedicated team members and we welcome those who are willing to let go of instant ego needs who wish to work with us to change the way that films are used to impact our society.


While organizing the 2008 Green Lifestyle Film Festival,  Dorit, the founder and organizer of the film festival, constantly kept coming back to the question," how can this film festival be a channel for teens and pre-teens who feel so despondent and disconnected that they turn to self destructive, rage filled behaviour?"

After making the final selection of the films, she came to the conclusion that certain films being screened at the film festival, such as: All Jacked Up, Vegan Fitness, You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay), The Learning Garden and Baraka would be extremely beneficial and life affirming to all teenagers and pre-teens. Add to that an environment where they would be surrounded and exposed to food that was nourishing, delicious, satisfying and straight from Nature, feed them with these live, organic, vegan foods all weekend and keep them in the company of inspirational, courageous filmmakers and a mainly involved, vegan, environmentally conscious audience and a recipe for transformation and upliftment could replace the old patterns.


Dorit was so fired up by this that she created a scholarship for 10 students to attend the film festival. The decision has been made to launch this project and dedicate the 2010 March Green Lifestyle Film Festival to teens and pre-teens who embrace the Native and First People's Nations Traditions. Dorit sees this film festival as an open invitation to all youth and expecially  indigenous teens and pre-teens to prepare themselves to take on what she sees as their inalienable role as the future leaders of the environmental movement. Along with the Green Lifestyle Film Festival, Green-LA (with whom Dorit is partnered for the film festival) will organize and select the winners of the scholarship for elementary and high school students.


The contest is as follows:

10 students will be selected based on the following criteria:

5 who write essays (maximum 1,000 words) and 5 who make a 5 to 30 minute film on :

"Green Solutions for an Ailing Species"

OR

"How to create Sustainable Solutions for my Own Inner Turmoil"

Criteria:

No animals nor children can be exploited nor abused while making this film andno foul language/cursing shall be used in the film. Winners will receive passes to the film screenings at the 2010 Green Lifestyle Film Festival and the Friday night (19th of March) Opening Reception and Ceremony. They will also receive passes to the Green Room to meet and speak with the filmmakers whose films are being screened at the film festival, and be our honoured guests all weekend. Other prizes include:

CDs with very motivational messages in the lyric

DVDs of some of the films screened at the Green Lifestyle Film Festival

A copy of the film A Sacred Duty

A copy of the cartoon The Meatrix

Other prizes to be announced on this site coming soon.

The panel of judges are:

Lisa Garr is the host of the very popular The Aware Show on 90.7 FM KPFK Los Angeles, 98.7 FM KPFK Santa Barbara and 1150 AM KTLK Los Angeles.

Tanya Jenkins is a Producer for Los Angeles’ top-rated self-development talk radio show, The Aware Show. The Aware Show airs on the public radio station KPFK in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara and also on KTLK, Air America’s progressive talk station in Los Angeles.Tanya holds a Bachelor's degree in Geography with a focus on climatology.

Tony Guembes, Founder of Green- LA and Publisher of ECO-LA a monthly publication in Los Angeles.

Nancy Pearlman, Executive Producer and Host of the three-time EMMY-nominated environmental television series ECONEWS Dorit appreciates any assistance in getting the word out to as many students and parents as possible so we can involve them in taking charge of their lives in a sustainable, responsible and fun filled way. Students or educators who wish to take part are encouraged to contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with the title:

Green Lifestyle Film Festival Sustainable Solutions in the Subject line.

All entries are due in by the 31st of January,2010..

Videos are to be uploaded on: www.youtube.com/greenlifestylefilmfestival. If you are interested in contributing to this project or partnering with us, please e-mail us or phone: 310-854-2078.

This project is a Green Lifestyle Film Festival Community project and Dorit's response to the perplexing chaos that some pre-teens and teenagers feel internally and are manifesting externally through self destructive behavior patterns.

For Sponsorship of our Teen Project please contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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To Volunteer to be a part of this project please email:Genna Douglass at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Thank You!!


We are looking for donations of computers and video and still cameras for our Teen/PreTeen Project. We would very much appreciate any and all assistance with this. To make a contribution, please contact :

Blanca Ramirez at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

We are also seeking a Curiculum writer who would assist us in making this programme available to 4 schools that are interested in adding it to their curriculum.

Supporting our Teen Project and our Planet...

AT THE SAME TIME!

     We're hosting a gadget drive to help fundraise for our Teen Project. It is a new way to fundraise that turns your used electronics (laptops, cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras & more) into cash to support a cause. Contributing to this drive is simple. Just visit the GLFF drive webpage, find the value of the gadgets you would like to donate, and send them to Gazelle (shipping is free). The value will go to support  the Green Lifestyle Film Festival Teen Project (GLFF Teen Project).

      If you would like to donate, please check out the drive's page to learn more and you can even track our progress! You will receive a confirmation of your donation by email and we at the Green  Lifestyle Film Festival  will be notified as soon as you make your donation.  Thank you so much for all of your continued support!

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