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10 Honors Top Film in Category Five themes
Before their debut artivist Film Festival in Hollywood in August,
… Thus, the winners “previewed” in six cities across the United States, July 8-10:
Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, Sedona (AZ) and Washington DC
LOS ANGELES – June 30, 2011 – artivist Collective, Inc., nonprofit organization that produces the Annual Film Festival artivist, announced the 2011 awards the film into five categories: human rights, advocacy for children, environmental conservation, and Spirit animal rights artivist

award is given to feature films and short films in each category for a total of 10 scholarships. The full list of winners follows. Prizes will be awarded to the filmmakers, the Festival Award Program 2011 Closing night film artivist in Los Angeles, August 18 to 20.
In the first program of its kind to film festivals, all ten films will be presented in a series of advance screening least six major U.S. cities, July 8 to 10: Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, Sedona ( AZ.), and Washington DC will debut a film festival in Los Angeles, to be held at the historic Egyptian Theatre in the heart of Hollywood.
“We are very excited about the winning film schedule this year. They are among the best we have special inspection eight years ago,” said Diaky Diaz, co-founder and president of the Film Festival and Price artivist. “Watch this movie, 10 will have viewers on a journey that opened the eyes of the world in the jungles of lush plains of Southeast Asia and Western U.S. and South African Township Along the way, we are informed and inspired. Adventure tours for the mind and spirit. ” “Br />
artivist name is a combination of” artist “and” activist. “Since its inception in 2003, has screened 400 films from artivist + more than 60 countries, and produced a touring festival Film in Los Angeles, New York, London, Tokyo, Mexico City, and Lisbon, which reached over 35 million people.
Among the films shown at Film Festival artivist over the years has become an Oscar-winning ” Born in prostitution “and nominated for Academy” Super Size Me “and the first in Los Angeles of a documentary critical to recognize” The sleep of God in Rwanda “,” National Fast Food “,” gift Emmanuelle “,” Zeitgeist ” , “Trudell”, “Stolen Childhoods” and “Regeneration”.
This year artivist is proud to welcome back as a community partner PETROBRAS official. Since 2004 Petrobras has supported the growth of the International Film Festival artivist and scholarships artivist. Petrobras, a Brazilian energy company, has a history of 30 years of ethanol from sugar cane as fuel for vehicles distributed, and now
committed to increasing ethanol production and exports. In a new research center, scientists are finding ways to produce ethanol from agricultural byproducts, which can increase production without the need for more farmland.
largest Cultural Arts Program sponsor Petrobras in Brazil, and hundreds of social partner projects that focus on reducing poverty and creating opportunities for children and adolescents who live in certain neighborhoods of Brazil’s poorest.
In 2010, projects selected to receive $ 45 million to help protect endangered species like sea turtles, dolphins and manatees, and the initiative on carbon sequestration, water protection, biodiversity , and climate change.
As the only company in the energy sector, which is part of the board of the Global Compact United Nations (UN), Petrobras agrees to comply with the 10 principles of corporate governance set out by the United Nations.
Understanding the interdependence between humans, animals and the environment is important in our global community. By partnering with individuals and groups, organizations and businesses , we can create long-term solution to our global problems.
artivist collective, Inc. All rights reserved. 501 (c) (3) nonprofit. All proceeds benefit the annual film festival artivists the creating a platform for “artivist” films of social consciousness of inspiration and information to share with the world. Media Contact: Lisa Carroll
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626-280-8291 artivist Film Awards Film Festival 2011

Human Rights
characteristics: “Because they are beautiful” (the Indonesia, the Netherlands) – Frank van Osch, Director
short: “Umoja: No Men Allowed” (Australia Kenya) – Elizabeth Tadic, Child Advocacy Director

Features: “Surfing Soweto “(South Africa) – Sara Blecher, director
short:” Grace “(Philippines, Switzerland) – Meagan Kelly, Director

based environmental protection” offers exceptional around the world: there is something for everyone! “(Canada, USA) – travel Jennings, director
short:” Keep Falling Leaves “(Vietnam, USA) – Julie Winokur, Director the animal rights
Features: “green” (Indonesia, France) – Patrick Rouxel, Director
short: “Saving to 895″ (USA) – Irene Taylor Brodsky, Director
Spirit artivist
Features: “Love Hate Love” (USA) – Don Hardy, Dana Nachman, director
short: “The beauty Crooked” (USA) – Ken Rosenthal Paul, director
2011 winning film Synopsis:
because they are beautiful – Frank van Osch filmmaker, photographer January Banning (World Press Photo Award in 2004) and Hilde Janssen journalist, has traveled throughout Indonesia to find the “comfort women,” said ex: a young woman who was kidnapped and forced to be sex slaves for the Japanese army during World War II. Many comfort women have died and those who are alive today, all in their 80s. Is still considered taboo in many parts of Asia, in the comfort women “because they are beautiful” describes a page of history little known but important, dare explain the systematic
Beauty Crooked – powerful and poetic film tells the journey of transformation artist-activist Jacks McNamara of child abuse for the patient to defend psycho-service mental health pioneer. This is an intimate portrait, which is woven with the poignant, personal competition McNamara effort to live with courage and dignity, as well as a strong critique of the standard psychiatric treatment
Grace – scavengers who live in the Philippines has been exposed through the story of a brave girl. Thirteen years Mary-Grace Rapatan lived on landfills in the Philippines known all her life, choose a mountainous garbage to feed his family while (face all difficulties with perseverance) to get an education. Film the determination and the potential of this young teens, despite the challenges it faced
Green: His name is green, and is now alone in the world does not belong. Green is a female orangutan, victim of deforestation and resource exploitation. Recipient of over 20 international awards, including film festivals International Film Festival of Nations (UN) Forest “Festival” Price, “Green” is the emotional journey, harrowing days in the rainforests of Indonesia beloved green. The film is a visual journey, offering biodiversity of rain forests and adverse effects of logging and clearing for oil palm plantations
Love Hate Love – Executive Producer Sean Penn presents this story of violence and how they must rebuild their lives. Been eight years since Liz Alderman Peter son, was killed by terrorists. Every day since then, Liz face the same two options to a depth of despair or find a way to survive. Esther Hyman know this option as well: his sister was killed when the bus in which he was in the work was destroyed. And Ben Tullipan least two feet and now live audition for one ton bomb just a few meters away. Their lives, shattered by the terrorists, now on a new road, and they will take thousands of people along for the ride. ” Love Hate Love “these survivors in their search for meaning, respect, and a new future savings
to 895 – nearly 9,000 birds were found in the oily waters of the Gulf Coast after oil spill BP 2010. One of them is young Pelican coated with oil near the nest in Louisiana. This is the story of 895 birds to be saved and restored by a dedicated team of wildlife experts and all people per day, many of them move into the world to respond to catastrophic oil
fantastic deals from around the world: there is something for everyone! – Three world-renowned photographers build relationships with indigenous Gitga’at guide the expedition of ten days of files in their search for scarce bear, spirit and hard to understand. Their mission is to create an image of bears is rare and the ecosystems they depend, before the proposed pipeline from Alberta tar sands threatens to spoil. Spirit Bear, rare World pandas, living only on the north coast of British Columbia, and film provides stunning visual display, and the mutual inspiration of the coastal ecosystem, which existed in symbiosis with indigenous people for thousands of years
Surfing Soweto – “Dogtown and Z Boys” meets ” Rebel Without A Cause “in the streets of Soweto, South Africa. Over the past three years, followed Productions Cinga and documented the lives of the most famous three trains in Soweto browser: Bitch nigga, and Lefa Mzembe. We see a train hurtling through Soweto, heroin Hilbrow movement of the nest, and went to jail with names such as Sun City – all with the hope to understand their frustration and to document the lives of new generations of young people Soweto. This is the story of a forgotten generation, born after the death of apartheid, but too early to reap the benefits of freedom
Save Falling Leaves – During the Vietnam War, the U.S. forces sprayed about 12 million gallons of Agent Orange, a herbicide on Vietnam. defoliant was used immediately destroy crops, vegetation, clear, and remove the dense forests that provide food and cover for Viet Cong forces. Forty years later, the dioxin Agent Orange caused the destruction of three generations of Vietnamese civilians. This film is an intimate portrait of two families of children in Vietnam, among the millions, must live with the adverse effects of pesticides

Umoja: No Men Allowed – Set in Kenya, clashes erupted in the Samburu tribe sex land. This is the story funny and changing lives of women in Samburu tribe of northern Kenya, which reclaim their lives, making secular patriarchy on the head when they established a community for women. Driven by their husbands after being raped by British soldiers, women have joined forces to establish the village Umoja, but they incur the wrath of the prosperity of man, including the leaders of their tribes, leading to a battle of the sexes.

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