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While putting together this year's Raw 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, rageful behaviour?"
After making the final selecton of the films, she came to the conclusion that certain films such as
All Jacked Up, Vegan Fitness, You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) 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
foods that were 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 raw, 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.
On behalf of the Raw Lifestyle Film Festival, Green-LA (with whom Dorit is partnering 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 8-10 minute film on "Green Solutions for an Ailing Species"
Winners will receive passes to the film screenings at the 2008 Raw Lifestyle Film Festival and the Friday night
(21st of March) Opening Reception and Ceremony at the Grand Theatre, downtown LA.
In addition on Saturday, they will be presented on stage to meet Jennifer Mattox and other filmmakers of
the film "All Jacked Up" after the screening of the film.
Other prizes include:
- CDs with very motivational messages in the lyric from CIPES and The People, a Raw Raggae Band
- A scholarship for a Raw Permaculture course and Visionary Stewardship training.
- A copy of the film A Sacred Duty
The panel of judges are:
- Lisa Garr of the Aware Show on 90.7 FM KPFK Los Angeles, 98.7 FM KPFK Santa Barbara and 1150 AM KTLK Los Angeles
- Marla Gibbs, Actress and Singer known for her television roles in The Jeffersons, 227 and the soap opera Passions.
- Laura Fox who integrates Visionary Stewardship trainings with a Raw Permaculture curriculum in an exciting new Eco-social
regeneration platform of learning which she will be teaching at regular events throughout the USA
- Tony Guembes, Founder of Green- LA
- 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 who wish to take part are encouraged to contact: tony@green-LA.com with the title: Raw Lifestyle Film Festival
Sustainable Solutions in the Subject line. All entries are due in by the 5th of March. Videos are to be uploaded
on: www.youtube.com/forasustainableworld.
If you are interested in contributing to this project, please e-mail:
dorit@serenityspaces.org or phone 310-928-7689 or 310-854-2078.
This will be a raw, Living Foods Community project and response to the perplexing chaos that some pre-teens and teenagers
feel internally and externally.
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