Sex and Earth Day

| April 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Award-Winning Environmental Film Describes an Unorthodox Way to Slow Global Warming and a Free Way to Watch it

 April 1, 2013, Denver – Even though sex and global warming are rarely discussed in the same sentence, much less in the same film, the long ignored truth was recently explored in the 2011 award- winning environmental documentary Mother: Caring for 7 Billion.  In celebration of Earth Day, the filmmakers ofMother announced the Internet release of their 2013 “Director’s Cut” of Mother that will stream for free on the Internet from April 19 until the end of May.  Christophe Fauchere, the director and co-producer stated,  “We want Mother to be viewed by as many people as possible for Earth Day because Mother holds up a mirror and shows people a very different way to look at their role on this planet.”  As Lisa Hymas from The Grist went on to say in her article  “This is not your father’s population documentary…  Mother takes a feminist/humanist view as it explores the issues of our exploding numbers.”   

 

 The journey to make the film was not always easy.  Mireya Navarro in her New York Times Green Blogwrote about the making of Mother  “they (the filmmakers) found some environmental groups reluctant to address the subject for fear of alienating their supporters.  One group hung up on them when they called..”  Writer Sacha Vignieri added to this environmental urgency in her Science magazine review “Our choice to avoid discussion of the population issue, however, will not make the problems disappear. Christophe Fauchere’s film Mother: Caring for 7 Billion encourages us to reengage, both publicly and personally, with the reality of what our increasing population will bring.”   

 Mother: Caring for 7 Billion (2011) is currently being shown in hundreds of classrooms around the country and is being broadcast throughout the world.   The next step in distribution is Netflix, Itunes and Hulu.   Tiroir A Films Productions’ previous award-winning environmental documentaries include The Great Squeeze (2009) and Energy Crossroads (2007)

Contact:

Joyce Johnson at Tiroir A Films Productions, LLC (TAF)

Joyce@tiroirafilms.net 720 278-5359

www.tiroirafilms.net

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