We're humbled and excited to announce that My Village, My Lobster is for rent and sale on both iTunes and Amazon, please click the respective links below, and if you have a moment, please consider leaving a review:
Sitting in the New and Noteworthy section for documentaries is pretty awesome, made even more great to sit amongst such great new documentaries like the Academy-Award winning film SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, Sundance favorites DETROPIA, BULLY, and HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE.
This is all possible because our backers; once more, thank you.
Lastly, even though we sold out our NYC premiere set for April 18th, please sign up on our waiting list for a yet-to-be-announced second screening in NYC sometime in May. Here's the link, click on Add To Waitlist:
Hello friends, backers, family, and beloved lobster film supporters! It's been an amazing year since we premiered at the DC Environmental Film Festival. Since then we've screened at more than a dozen festivals, conferences, and on TV in Nicaragua (See Brad in the studio below, right before the live interview.)
This April will surely be awesome as we release the lobster film in all its glory with our friends at FilmBuff on iTunes and, of course, there is our NYC premiere, which will be on Thursday, April 18th at Cinema Village @ 22 E. 12th St. Please click here for directions. Tickets are limited, so please get yours soon. Please check us out on Facebook for updates.
Lastly, we're still working out the details on all of the remaining Kickstarter awards; we apologize for the delay!
Thank you a ton for the continued support as we share our film with the world. Hope to see you in NYC.
Friends of "My Village, My Lobster", AKA "The Lobster Film"-
It's been a while since we posted an update, so we figured today would be a great day to do so. The momentum with our film has been nothing short of awesome, and we really owe this to our Kickstarter supporters, so once again, thank you for the support!
One of the biggest pieces of news is our agreement with FilmBuff to digitally release "My Village, My Lobster" in the spring of 2013. FilmBuff is one of the most respected film distributors around, so to say that we're psyched is an understatement. As with our other bits of news, we will post the release date and online locations to view the film once we know on our Facebook page: facebook.com/thelobsterfilm.
Early on in September we were fortunate to screen the film at the Dominican Republic International Film Festival, both in Punta Cana and in Santo Domingo, to an engaging, lively crowd keen on improving both the lives of the fishing communities in the Caribbean, as well as improving ocean life in the area. You can check out photos on our Facebook page.
Last week, the film screened in Trento, Italy at the Festival “Tutti Nello Stesso Piatto” - a festival that celebrates food, biodiversity, food soveriegnty, the environment and sustainable growth.
In looking ahead, If you're in Vegas for the Dive Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) trade show next weekend, there will be two screenings followed by a panel discussion with Brad Allgood, producer of our film, as well as with Dr. Nick Bird and Jacelyn Messersmith from Divers Alert Network. Details of these screenings can be found here.
Also, later this month we will be screening at the International Film Festival of Antigua Barbuda. Dates for all future screenings will be posted on our Facebook page and on our website, so please check back soon.
Once again, thank you a ton for the continued support in getting this untold story out there! Please consider sharing our Facebook page with your world: facebook.com/thelobsterfilm
We hope this update finds you very well. We've had a very busy last couple of months and we wanted to give our amazing donors/contributors a quick run-down on where we've been and what we've been up to:
Our brand-new website is up and running with the trailer, film info, filmmaker bios, video extras and lots of pertinent information relating to the lobster issue in the Caribbean. If you haven't seen it, please check it out here: www.thelobsterfilm.com. We're also on Twitter, too: @TheLobsterFilm. Also, if you're not friends with us on Facebook, please visit our page at: www.facebook.com/thelobsterfilm, "Like" it, and share it with your friends and social networks. Thanks a ton.
We were very fortunate to have screened as an Official Selection at the DC Environmental Film Festival to a full theater on March 17th. Soon after we had our Nicaraguan premiere at Casa 3 Mundos in Granada which was also to a full theater and featured a very lively Q&A in both Spanish and English.
Other screenings have included:
-The United Nations Development Program Marine Protected Area Conference in San Andres, Colombia (April 26, 2012) -Official Selection and Screening at Seaflower Ecocultural Fest in Old Providence, Colombia (April 28, 2012) -A campus screening at the University of Hawaii Manoa Campus to Biology students (March 15, 2012)
-Official Selection, International Wildlife Film Festival. In addition to the film screening, we organized a panel discussion with Dr. Matias Nochetto from Divers Alert Network, Dr. Elmer Mejia from La Bendicion Health Clinic in La Ceiba, Honduras and Dr. Don Behringer, a lobster biologist from the University of Florida. The panel discussion was a huge success, and the audience was very engaged. During the festival, we had the chance to meet Sylvia Earle (a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, TED prize winner, Time magazine Hero for the Planet, and founder of Mission Blue and the Sylvia Earle Alliance) and begin some initial talks with Mission Blue on outreach activities moving forward.
Looking down the road, we're honored and excited to have been chosen as an Official Selection for the 2012 BLUE Ocean Film Festival in Monterrey, California in September, as well as a planned screening with the US Dept of Labor and NOAA for late June in DC.
Our partnership with Divers Alert Network (dan.org) has turned out to be a great relationship. We're looking forward to more opportunities to engage their community of divers with the issues covered in our film. In addition, we're hoping to return to the Caribbean this fall with DAN for a series of screenings and panel discussions during the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival.
And last but not least, we're steadily updating our Youtube channel with clips from the film. Our latest is an interview with Dr. Enrique Beteta, Secretary General, Nicaraguan Ministry of Health. Our supporters get the first look before we publish to the world. You can watch the exclusive interview here:
Thank you all for your continued support. Without you, none of this would have been possible.
It's been quite a while since we sent out an email update. For many of you on Facebook, you may have already seen our postings regarding our world premiere, but for everyone else, we have some exciting and immediate news to share with you: our world premiere is set for Saturday, March 17th in Washington DC at the Gala Theatre at the 20th annual DC Environmental Film Festival.
The screening is free and open to the public and will begin promptly at 3PM with a Q&A with myself and Matias Nochetto, Director of Operations and Outreach for Divers Alert Network (DAN.ORG).
We hope to see everyone there! For more information, please visit the DC Environmental Film Festival's page for our film here or send us an email!
