CHARCOAL TRAFFIC
Film Festivals and Screenings
Film Festivals and Screenings
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Film lovers all over the world will have a chance to see the dramatic story of environmental and cultural conflict in Somalia. CHARCOAL TRAFFIC has been entered in film festivals on all continents.
CHARCOAL TRAFFIC in EIGHTEEN International Screenings
CHARCOAL TRAFFIC is an official selection in the following thirty international film festivals (as of 20 April 2009)
• New Beijing International Film Week, China, June 1- 8, 2008
• Leith International Short Film Festival, June 2-8, 2008 Edinburgh Scotland
• Shoot Me Film Festival 16 – 22 June 2008, The Hague, Netherlands
• Greening the Beige, Environmental Festival, 8 & 16 July 2008, Beijing, China
• Durban International Film Festival, South Africa, 23 July to 3 August 2008
• Canterbury Short Film Festival, 7-10 July 2008, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Badhan, Somalia, Community groups screening and discussion of environmental effects of charcoal, ongoing and in other villages
• International Competition, Lenola Film Festival, Italy
• CamboFest and Cambo Lite, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Palm Springs International Short Fest, 21-27 August, 2008, California, USA
• Global Peace Film Festival, 17-21 September 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA
• Raindance International Film Festival, 1-12 October 2008 London, UK.
• Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival , 22-26 October 2008, Toronto, Canada
• Short Film Official Competition of the Festival International du Film d'Environnement November 19-25 2008, Paris France.
• International Short Film Festival, 22-29 August, 2008, Sao Paolo, Brazil
• Istanbul International Short Film Festival, 3-12 November 2008, Turkey
• Oakland International Film Festival, October 9-16, 2008, California, USA
• VideoFest, San Francisco, California, USA, October 17-18 2008,
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• Kenya International Film Festival, October, 2008, Nairobi, Kenya
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• Kibera Open Air Cinema, October, 2008, Nairobi, Kenya
• Roshd International Film Festival, November, 2008, Tehran, Iran
• 24th International Short Film Festival Interfilm, Nov 4 – 9, 2008, Berlin, Germany.
• EcoFocus Film Festival, Atlanta Georgia
• Africala, African Film Festival, two countries: Venezuela, Dec. 2008, Brazil, Nov. 2008
• CinemAfrica Film Festival, Feb 4-15 2009, Stockholm Sweden
• Pan African Film Festival, Feb. 5-16 2009, Los Angeles, California USA
• CinemAfrica Film Festival, 4 – 15 February 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
• Environmental Film Festival, 11-22 March 2009, Washington DC, USA
• Sisak Eco Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 5 May 2009
• Mountain Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado, USA, MAY 21-25, 2009
A scene from Charcoal Traffic
When a film festival comes to your city or town, try to attend and support alternative filmmakers! THANKS!
Below are some comments about some of the screenings. Logos of the various film festivals are also displayed.
When a film festival comes to your city or town, try to attend and support alternative filmmakers! THANKS!
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CHARCOAL TRAFFIC, has been selected for presentation in the official line-up of the 14th Annual Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (August 21-27, 2008),California, USA, as well as a featured film in the Festival’s Short Film Market. Visit www.psfilmfest.org for more information.
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Charcoal Traffic in the Short Film Official Competition of the Festival International du Film d'Environnement 2008, which will take place in November 2008 (19 until 25) at the Cinema La Pagode in Paris . The organizers commented that they were touched and deeply interested by [the] strong film.
CHARCOAL TRAFFIC in BEIJING CHINA
CHARCOAL TRAFFIC is an official selection of the New Beijing International Film Week, June 1-8, 2008. Over 40 films will be screened from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, England, France, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Somalia, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA. Either through language or subtitles, all movies will be accessible to Chinese and English speakers. Visit www.beijingfilmfest.org for more information.
CHARCOAL TRAFFIC was shown June 4 2008 at the D. 22 night club in a trendy part of Beijing near the Peking University campus. CHARCOAL TRAFFIC generated considerable discussion among viewers. Here are some of the questions:
Q. Why don't people cook with gas or electricity if charcoal causes so many problems?
A. There is no gas or electricity available in most of Somalia, even towns.
Q. Do people really live in small huts?
A. Yes, many people are nomadic pastoralists who must move with their flocks.
Q. Do people really carry machine guns in Somalia?
A. Unfortunately many do because of ongoing lawlessness due to civil war since 1992.
Q. Did goats really live in the area where the film was shot, there seemed to be no grass only sand?
A. Yes, goats are able to survive even where there is very little pasture.
Q. The acting was of high standard. Were the actors professionals?
A. None of the actors had had any previous acting experience. They were friends or staff members who worked with us in our solar cooking project.
The Beijing screening of CHARCOAL TRAFFIC gave co-producer James Lindsay an opportunity to explain the situation in Somalia and the work of Sun Fire Cooking distributing solar cookers as an alternative to charcoal.
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Greening the Beige (GtB) is a Beijing based innovative, eco-minded art collective dedicated to nurturing awareness on pertinent environmental issues. To learn more about Gtb please visit
http://www.greeningthebeige.org/gtb/
GtB is having a Green Film Festival.
There are two screening times for Charcoal Traffic
Tuesday, July 8, 8 pm, Beijing Green Drinks @ Stoneboat (Ritan Park) - this will be a GtB preview/warm-up event.
Wednesday, July 16, 8 pm, Greening the Beige Green Film Fest, Club Obiwan,
Bar, Café, Club
Xihai Xiyan no.4
Xicheng District
300m from Jishuitan Subway Station
http://clubobiwan.com.cn/mod/Contact.php
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CHARCOAL TRAFFIC is pleased to be selected for the SHOOT ME Film Festival.
SHOOT ME FILM FESTIVAL 2008, 16-22 June
THE HAGUE, Netherlands
THE HAGUE, Netherlands
Want to know what people are really into? To get to know striking subcultures, human obsessions and political and social realities? The Shoot Me Film Festival in The Hague shows the world from a realistic perspective. Every year the SHOOT ME film festival presents original stories, told through the images of original filmmakers.
Visit www.shoot-me.nl for more information.
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Visit www.shoot-me.nl for more information.
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CHARCOAL TRAFFIC official selection LEITH Film Festival
HOT SUN FILMS is pleased to announce that the short drama CHARCOAL TRAFFIC will be shown at the Leith International Film Festival in Edinburgh Scotland!
Visit http://www.leithshortfilmfestival.co.uk for more information.
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Hot Sun Films is pleased to announce that CHARCOAL TRAFFIC has been selected for screening at South Africa 's longest running film festival, the Durban International Film Festival, that will take place from 23 July to 3 August 2008.
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Charcoal Traffic will be screening at the Lenola, Italy Film Festival An International Competition of Short Films on a Theme
The dates of the Lenola Film Festival are 19,24,25,26,27, July, 2008
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Charcoal Traffic is an official selection in the Urbis Animax international section of the Canterbury Short Film Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand. Visit http://www.urbis-animax.com for more information.
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* CamboFest and Cambo Lite (preview) Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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* Global Peace Film Festival, 17-21 September 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA
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* Raindance International Film Festival, 1-12 October 2008 London, UK.
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* Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival , 22-26 October 2008, Toronto, Canada
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* Short Film Official Competition of the Festival International du Film d'Environnement November 19-25 2008, Paris France.
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* International Short Film Festival, 22-29 August, 2008, Sao Paolo, Brazil
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* Istanbul International Short Film Festival, 3-12 November 2008, Turkey
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* Oakland International Film Festival, October 9-16, 2008, California, USA
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• Roshd International Film Festival, November, 2008, Tehran, Iran
