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Update #14: LAST STAND ON THE ISLAND >> update from Toronto

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Update #13: Last HOUR to go

Posted on April 10, 2011

Dearest donors, comrades, conspirators and sympathizers:

This marks the LAST HOUR of our kickstarter campaign.

Thank you all for making this film a reality.

We surpassed our fundraising goal, thanks to your generous contributions and network of support.

Onwards we shall sail.

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Update #12: And Lerner Media joins Last Stand on the Island

Posted on April 8, 2011

"Last Stand in the Island" welcomes Lerner Media to our production team!!!!!

What a magnificent addition!

For more information please visit http://lernermedia.net/blog/ 

and in Facebook http://www.facebook.com/LernerMediaGlobal

Update #11: Images from last month's screening in DC

Posted on April 6, 2011

Some pics from our screening last month at the DC Environmental Film Festival, where we showed a work-in-progress clip from Last Stand on the Island and the piece I did with MediaStorm last year, When the Water Ends.

Thanks to Kaitlin Whitman for the photographs!

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Update #10: A bit of Edison on the isle

Posted on April 5, 2011

A glimpse of Edison, who sneaks to his cousin's garden to steal roses for his wife every chance he can. 

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Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez are co-founders of Cows in the Field, a production studio focused on telling the stories of people whose lives are impacted by social and environmental crisis around the globe.

Abramson’s multimedia documentary When the Water Ends was produced by MediaStorm in 2010.

Upcoming Film Screenings:
Green Screens, Lincoln Center, New York City - March 1, 2011
DC Environmental Film Festival, Washington, DC - March 20, 2011
Yale University Environmental Film Festival, New Haven, CT - April 2, 2011
Hawaii Oceans Film Festival - June, 2011

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