LennonOno Grant for Peace
John Lennon's 70th birthday is celebrated by Yoko Ono
The 2010 Recipients are:
Filmmaker Josh Fox wrote and directed the documentary feature film GASLAND in 2010. Josh's work is known for its mix
of gripping narrative, heightened imagery and its commitment to socially conscious themes and subjects.
Author Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on
our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment. He is the author of numerous best sellers,
most recently Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.
Author, poet, and activist Alice Walker is know for her brave stance against racism, sexism, and human rights issues .
In 2009, she traveled to Gaza along with a group of 60 other female activists from the anti-war group Code Pink to
oppose the controversial blockade and violence against Gaza by Israel and Egypt. Her book Overcoming
Speechlessness documents her experiences in Gaza and abroad.
Mother, Barbara Kowalcyk was propelled into food safety advocacy in 2001, when her two-year-old son, Kevin, died
after suffering an E.coli infection from tainted food. Barbara and her mother Pat Buck created the Center for Foodborne
Illness & Prevention (CFI) a national non-profit organization committed to improving public health by preventing
foodborne illness through research, education, advocacy and service.
NEW YORK, August 26, 2010- Legendary artist, musician and peace advocate, YOKO ONO, announced today she will be
holding several events in Iceland on October 9th to promote peace throughout the world and to celebrate what would have been
John Lennon’s 70th birthday.
The LennonOno Grant for Peace was created to honour her late husband John Lennon’s dedication to peace and commitment
to the preservation of human rights. Created in 2002, this biennial award has always been given to two recipients.
To mark this special anniversary year, Yoko Ono will be presenting this award to four recipients who have been selected
based on their courage and commitment to peace, truth and human rights.
Later that evening at 8:00 pm local time, the much anticipated annual lighting of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER will take place. Yoko Ono invites the people all over the world to join her in spirit when she lights IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in remembrance of John Lennon. As IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is illuminated on the island of Vi?ey, she asks everyone to join together and let the power of light and prayer become a collective expression of the desire for peace and harmony on our planet. Please see www.imaginepeace.com to view a live feed of the lighting of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER.
After the lighting, YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND will play a special concert. Details to be announced.
SEE GASLAND
PHILDELPHIA • FRIDAY, 9/3
NORTHERN LIBERTIES
GERMANTOWN AVE & N 2ND ST, PHILADEPHIA, PA 19123
Public trans: Take the Market-Frankford Line to Girard Station or the #15 Trolley to Girard Station at Girard & Front
Friday, Sept. 3 -- doors open 7:30; 8 pm live music, refreshments, 8:30 Film begins
10 pm -- panel discussion, Q & A with Josh Fox, PA State Rep Tony Payton, Protecting Our Waters, and PennEnvironment.
http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/venues/15-the-piazza-at-schmidts
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CALLICOON, NY • SUNDAY, 9/5
Screening Under the Stars!
Outside the Delaware Youth Center 8 Creamery Rd., Callicoon, NY Sunday, Sept 5
6:00 Performances! Speeches! Live music! Bring a picnic and a blanket or lawn chair
Speakers: Josh Fox, Mark Ruffalo, State Senator Tom Duane and County Legislator & State Senate candidate David Sager.
Musical Performances by Janet Burgan, Stacey Cohen & Dennis Newberg, The Mountain Tones, Justin Sutherland & the Frack Free Kids Chorus.
And Tannis Kowolchuck (NACL) in a special performance ofFrackenstein!
Film starts at 8:15 followed by Q&A with Director Josh Fox
Indoors in case of rain Free popcorn! Candy and dessert for sale
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NEW YORK CITY • WEDNESDAY, 9/15
GASLAND OPENS IN NYC ON SEPT 15 AT THE INTERNATIONAL FILM CENTER
Affirming GASLAND
Please see 39-page PDF document - with 1-page introduction letter from Josh Fox.
This a "DE-debunking" document in response to specious and misleading gas industry claims against the film, GASLAND.
Even before its release, the significance of GASLAND was not lost on the gas industry. In the March 24th edition of the "Oil and Gas Journal",
Skip Horvath, the president of the Natural Gas Supply Association said that GASLAND is “well done. It holds people’s attention.
And it could block our industry.”
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GASLAND wins Sundance Special Jury Award.
Josh Fox accepts Award for GASLAND at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
A Special Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to GASLAND, directed by Josh Fox. With spirit, strength, and a sense of humor,
Fox's personal documentary takes a look at how gas drilling affects our air and drinking water.
http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2010/01/three-minutes-with-sundances-new-erin-brockovich.html
Josh Fox—the director of Gasland—grew up in Milanville, Pennsylvania. One day not too long ago he received a letter in the mail telling him that natural gas drilling was coming to his doorstep: A Halliburton-designed technology could unlock the rich reserve of natural gas underneath the ground in the Catskills/Poconos region.
Why were they coming now? Well, for starters, in 2005, the Bush administration exempted the natural gas industry from the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Right-to-Know Act, to name a few—and production was ramping up! The local provider was offering Fox something like $5,000 an acre to drill on his property. (Fox owned 20 acres).
Why would someone offer him $100,000 in cash? Fox started investigating. And what he found shocked him. In towns out west, where this technique called hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) was used, people were getting sick. Mysterious ailments, cancer, that sort of thing. Fox (and many others) believed the chemicals in fracking (chemicals Halliburton declined to identify, calling them "proprietary") were seeping into the water table, threatening to permanently taint the supply. Fox set off on a cross-country research tour.
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117941971.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
Who could have anticipated that one of the most effective and expressive environmental films of recent years would be the work of a Gotham theater director who's never before made a doc? Nobody, perhaps least writer-director Josh Fox, whose "GasLand" may become to the dangers of natural gas drilling what "Silent Spring" was to DDT.
The rare example of cinema art that is also an organizing tool, the pic has a level of research, gutsiness and energy that should generate sensational response everywhere it plays. Distribs with a social conscience have a gem to buy.
Ten Best Competition Films
(Hundreds of Critics Surveyed)
1. Gasland (Josh Fox, U.S. Doc)
2. 12th & Delaware (Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, U.S. Doc)
3. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, U.S. Dramatic)
4. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, U.S. Doc)
5. Last Train Home (Lixin Fan, World Doc)
6. Waiting For Superman (Davis Guggenheim, U.S. Doc)
7. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, U.S. Dramatic)
8. Restrepo (Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, U.S. Doc)
9. Animal Kingdom (David Michôd, World Dramatic)
10. The Oath (Laura Poitras, U.S. Doc)
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