Monday 23. of November 2009

By: goat

Breathe, the Documentary

Duration:                  45 Minutes

A Movie by:              Drew Stevenson and René Eckert

Released By:           Breathe Foundation

BREATHE Teaser:   www.youtube.com/user/BREATHECOSTARICA

 

The World Premiere of  "BREATHE the Documentary" will be this Friday, 27th of November, in three locations accross the Globe:  Leipzig, Germany, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica and Itacaré, Brazil. After twelve months of filming across the plantet and  culminating at the BREATHE FESTIVAL held in the Nicoya Penisula, Costa Rica, in February, the world premiere is followed by premieres at the Slide&Sound Festival in Cern-Martigny, Switzerland, Billabong Air&Style, Innsbruck, Peace &Love Cafe, Börlanger, Sweden and other dates to be confirmed.

 

The documentary examines many of the prevailing issues facing Humanity's accelerating exploitation of natural resources and interaction with the fragile ecosystems of our planet, while focusing on organizations and initiatives working to address them. Working with local organizations on the ground in the jungles of Costa Rica, to visiting event sites in Oslo, a music school in Sweden, a pro snowboarder and activist in Switzerland, to IMF meetings, inventors research and development laboratories, Wild Life Sanctuaries, Ibiza DJ's, to reforestation classes in local schools.

 

Culminating at the week long Breathe Festival in Santa Teresa, the documentary looks to raise awareness for issues on the ground while looking at these in terms of practical and actionable global initiatives. On a broader level, the documentary looks at common accepted norms and practices, their origins and the viability of their unquestioned ongoing implementation.

 

Taking a tone of common sense and practical demonstration rather than the pure scientific, it encourages the viewer to take the first and often most overlooked step - to take a second to...

 

Stop. Breathe. Think. Act.

Confirmed Dates:

 

 

27th November 2009:

Leipzig, Germany - Erstaufführungsfeirlichtkeit - 8:00pm Doors Open

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica - Location T.B.D

Itacaré, Brazil - Location T.B.D

 

28th November 2009:

Cern-Martigney, Switzerland - Slide and Sound Festival - www.slideandsound.ch

 

4th December 2009

Innsbruck, Austria - Weekender Cafe, VZ party, Billabong Air&Style 

 

9th December 2009:

Börlanger, Sweden - Peace and Love Cafe

 

Dates in Progress:

Munich, Germany

Zürich, Switzerland

Barcelona, Spain

Biarritz, France

Oslo, Norway

Helsinki, Finland

Prague, Czech Republic

 

 

(Parties interested in creating a Premiere please contact: drew@breathefoundation.org