RAW FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSION ADDRESSES Film makers are invited to submit their films from the 1st of August to the 31st of December 2007. Please note that all submissions must be postmarked by the 31st December, 2007. There will be no exceptions. To submit a film, please read the guidelines, fill out the registration form and send along with your $150.00 submission fee to the filmfestival represenative in your area below: If there is no one listed for your area, please email: dorit@serenityspaces.org or check back in a week's time. Please send your submissions to one of the following Raw Film Festival Submissions Board Members in your area: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA & SOUTH-WESTERN USA STATES Janabai Amsden Read Bio... 2307 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90405 Website Melissa Davison Read Bio... c/o Terra Bella Cafe 1408 South Pacific coast Hwy Redondo Beach Ca. 90277 Website Jenny Ross Read Bio... C/p 118 degrees Restaurant 2981 Bristol Suite B5 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Website NORTHERN CALIFORNIA & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON STATE & OREGON Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova Read Bio... Birth As We Know It 702 Mangrove ave., #116 Chico, CA 95926 Website ILLINOIS & MID-WESTERN US (including COLORADO) Linda Szarkowski Read Bio... 400 North LaSalle Street Suite 803 Chicago, IL 60610 NORTHEASTERN USA, NYC, TRISTATE AREA AND NEW ENGLAND Please send your submissions to one of the following Raw Film Festival Submissions Board Members. Sarah Austin Read Bio... Tools For Longevity 481 8th Ave. Suite 828 New York, NY 10001 646-319-5921 Website Rhio's Raw Energy Read Bio... PO Box 2040, Canal St. Station New York, NY 10013 Website Debra Secunda Read Bio... Sky in the Pie Productions, Inc. 300 East 62nd St., Suite #902 NY, NY 10065 Website FLORIDA Jenna Norwood Read Bio... P.O. Box 546 Sarasota, FL 34230 Website NORTH & SOUTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, GEORGIA & FLORIDA Nomi Shannon Read Bio... The Raw Gourmet PO Box 10396 Wilmington NC 28404 Website KENTUCKY, ARKANSAS, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, OHIO, VIRGINIA, GEORGIA, TENNESSEE & FLORIDA Kimberly May Read Bio... 616 Darnay Place Louisville, KY 40245 EASTERN PROVINCES OF CANADA Shannon Leone Read Bio... 20 Bloxham Place Barrie, ONT l4n 9k2 Phone: 1-866-LEONE-11 Website NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA Mike Fields Read Bio... Vibrant Life NZ Ltd 77 Townhead Crescent Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty 3110 New Zealand Website Janabai Amsden Health and Beauty Consultant, entrepreneur with 12 years of experience working in the natural health industry, Janabai is an expert at working one-on-one with clients to reach their health and spiritual goals. She is an accomplished yoga teacher who trained in India, and she is well versed in meditation and anti-stress techniques. She returned to the States after running a detox spa and retreat in the South of Thailand, to create a hip, relaxed health oasis in California. Upon meeting raw chef Matt Amsden, their popular cafe Euphoria Loves Rawvolution was born. Janabai has since become one of the country’s top holistic nutritional consultants. Since opening Euphoria Loves Rawvolution with Matt in 2006, her passionate causes led her to open a completely holistic and vegan body care boutique and body mind spirit bookstore on Santa Monica’s trendy Main Street. Janabai lives according to her own "eco-vision." She truly "walks the walk" and is devoted to helping those around her create a world aligned with consciousness itself. Melissa Davison Got her first taste of Live foods while volunteering at Tempe’s Rawsome Café. Returning to Idaho, she founded The House of Vibrance, which hosted a wide array of raw food speakers, and events. Her next venture, Birdie Basket, served as Idaho’s first Live foods catering business, offering private demos, transitioning services and lectures. She has assisted Chef Eric Rivkin at Iowa Community College, and the ACF (American Culinary Federation) Idaho chapter. She then did Prep classes for Wild Oats and Whole Foods Market on the west coast. Melissa was one of the Chefs for 6 diabetics during the filming of Raw For 30 Days "Healing diabetes naturally" during which she was a guest Chef and a volunteer instructor at The Tree of Life Center lead by Dr Gabriel Cousins. In 2005, Melissa was the only Raw/vegetarian participating in the Grill Masters Competition in Boise Idaho, where she won most creative dish as well as best show at The Texas Vegetarian Chili cook off. Currently Melissa posts free weekly recipes for NY e-mag SoulDish as well as running Terra Bella Cafe, The South Bay's Raw-Vegan, Eco-friendly cafe! Melissa will be releasing a Recipe book this fall. Jenny Ross is the founder and culinary creator of 118 Degrees: Organic Eats, Drinks and Lounge coming soon to the Camp in Costa Mesa, CA and Jenny's Raw and Organic Product Line available in health food stores in Southern California. Jenny is known for making healthy food fun. A former model and native to California Jenny learned in her own quest for health that raw living foods consistently offered high energy, healthy glow and overall great health. Jenny discovered raw foods accidentally while researching recipes and immediately began working with other raw foods chefs to learn for her own health benefits. After 2 years of working with top chefs from around the world she started Taste of the Goddess product line in Los Angeles. This product line quickly became a café. Yearning for her hometown Jenny returned to the OC to share some raw foods fun in her own backyard. She has toured in several markets speaking on behalf of the health benefits of raw foods and has been featured on the Travel Channel, Ktla 5, Kcal 9 and Abc 7. Her food has won numerous awards and she looks forward to sharing at her newest restaurant located at the camp in costa mesa, ca 118 Degrees: Organic Eats, Drinks, and Lounge. "Healthy Food should be fun. People always focus on what they can't have instead of all that they get to enjoy. I eat raw chocolate for breakfast everyday…Now what other diet allows you to eat chocolate for breakfast and feel good about it!" Sarah Austin Sarah Austin is Licensed Massage Therapist with a private practice in NYC. She became a vegetarian in 1986 and has followed a raw food lifestyle since 2005. Sarah conducts free raw food grocery store tours to individuals interested in trying raw food for a week. Her website is: www.ToolsForLongevity.com. Rhio Rhio is a singer and author, as well as an investigative reporter in the area of health and environmental issues. Her first book, Hooked on Raw, is about living a life more closely aligned with Nature by adopting a raw/live food lifestyle. CNN and American Journal aired stories on raw foods featuring Rhio. Rhio hosts an internet radio show called Hooked on Raw which can be heard worldwide at: www.TribecaRadio.net. A website: www.rawfoodinfo.com provides extensive information on the raw/live food lifestyle, as well as organic agriculture, environmental, human rights, civil rights, globalization and economic justice issues. On the horizon: Rhio is in production of a 3-DVD set of videos on Raw Food Preparation entitled "What’s Not Cookin' in Rhio’s Kitchen" which is set for release in Fall 2007. Rhio and her partner Leigh, are also fledgling permaculture eco farmers in Upstate New York with a focus on growing edible wild foods, leafy greens and lettuces, fruit and nuts. Debra Secunda TV host Debra Secunda has interviewed best selling authors such as Dr. Dean Ornish "Eat More, Weigh Less", Dr. Joyce Brothers, Columbia Prof. Robert Thurman "Inside Tibetan Buddhism", Gary Null "Natural Healing", Jack LaLanne, Ram Dass "Be Here Now", Sharon Gannon & David Life of "Jivamukti Yoga", Krishna Das, "Greatest Hits of the Kali Yuga", James Van Prague "Talking to Heaven", Adele Puhn "The 5 Day Miracle Diet", Dan Millman "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior", Dr. Earl Mindell "The Vitamin Bible", and many others concerning the Body-Mind-Spirit connection in relation to Health, Awareness & Wellness. Her dedication to improving "everyday life on Earth" is reflected in various charity fundraising projects and endeavoring to further Enlightenment and Healing through the media and "Sky in the Pie Productions, Inc.". Mike Fields Created Vegan 2 Raw Vegan for the first Raw Film Festival. Since then Mike’s work as an advocate for the Raw Lifestyle has included running seminars, events and working one on one with individuals. More information on Mike and his film can be found at www.vegan2rawvegan.com. Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova is the creator of "Birth As We Know It". She was one of the Leaders of Conscious Birth Movement in Russia in the eighties. In this Film she shares her experience of living in birthcamps at the Black Sea, where women gave birth in warm shallow lagoons in the presence of wild dolphins. The main message of the film shows what it really takes to prepare for a natural concsious birth that can be a beautiful experience anywhere, at home or even in the hospital. Elena teaches classes on healing birth trauma and personal empowerment around The world. Additional information is available on her site www.birthintobeing.com Kimberly May has over 10 years experience in the Health and Wellness field, 15 years experience in Communications and Marketing, and has been leading seminars for over 6 years. She is a licensed Stress Management Specialist/HeartMath Provider and trained in various other healing modalities such Reiki, Natural Medicine, and Tibetan Acupressure. Most recently, Kimberly offered her experience and talents for 6 years at the Foxhollow Clinic and Spa as Marketing Director and Stress Management Coach working with groups and individuals on managing stress, improving health, and living a balanced life. Jenna Norwood The award-winning "Supercharge Me! 30 Days Raw" at last year's first Raw Lifestyle Film Festival, is Jenna Norwood’s first feature film. Inspired by her transformational raw food experience, Jenna founded Raw Sarasot , and became a raw food chef teaching regular classes at Whole Foods Market. Jenna serves as PR Director for the annual Sarasota Earthdance and Executive Board Member of the Healthy Start Coalition of Sarasota County. She is a native of Washington, D.C. where she founded her public relations consulting business in 1993 after receiving her B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland. Linda Szarkowski Is very active in the Rawfood community in Chicago, helping to coordinate pot-lucks, events and guest speakers. She loves introducing new people to the raw lifestyle. Linda first made a change to a vegetarian diet more than 12 years ago, starting out for health and weight management, but stuck with it for animal compassion and environmental reasons. While working as a volunteer in Nepal, she had time on her hands and spent many hours researching the raw and living foods diet on the internet, gradually adding in as many fresh, live foods to her diet as she could. When she returned to Chicago she couldn't wait to try many of the recipes she discovered, and has been sharing her creations with delighted family and friends ever since. Linda is currently starting on her next adventure, creating a wellness retreat center with a rawfood café in Mexico. Nomi Shannon a raw-foodist since 1987, is the author of The Raw Gourmet (©1999 Alive Books). This book is considered to be "the raw food bible" and comes highly recommended as the first book one should read to learn all about raw food. Nomi’s next book Raw Food Celebrations (with Sheryl Duruz) will be available in late 2008. Over the years Nomi has been involved with many aspects of alternative health, including studying iridology with Dr. Bernard Jensen, as well as being a (non-practicing) Reiki Master. A certified Hippocrates Health Educator, Nomi teaches Raw Food Preparation to everyone from beginners to Teaching the Teachers, and is a Living Foods and Alternative Health Lifestyle Coach. Nomi provides consultation services for individuals, restaurants and groups, and maintains a website to provide information, recipes and raw food kitchen needs at www.rawgourmet.com. Currently living near the beach in North Carolina with Rocky the Dog, Nomi can also be reached at nomi@rawgourmet.com. Shannon Leone is a loving wife and mother who has been working in the health and fitness arena for 25 years as a colon hydro-therapist, aestitician, fitness instructor, and most recently Raw Foods Coach. Shannon has successfully transitioned her whole family over to the benefits of a high-raw lifestyle and you can see in her inspiring documentary Raising Children Raises Us the beautiful results. Shannon appears regularily on TV, Radio and in Magazines. Shannon can be reached for consultations at 1-866-LEONE-11 or sjkleone@yahoo.com