The Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival has announced the finalists for their Digital Slr Short Film Competition
The festival is currently on in Launceston, Tasmania. Winners of the competition will be announced at the Bofa Awards Dinner.
The films have been selected for reflecting the festival’s contemporary issues and this year’s themes of “new horizons” or “food for thought.”
Judges for the competition include Gregor Jordan (Dir: Ned Kelly, Two Hands) Rowan Woods (Dir: Little Fish, The Boys) and Karena Slaninka, Screen Tasmania’s CEO.
The Digital Slr Short Film Competition 2011 finalists for the MyState Bofa Film Festival are:
‘Abbie’, Dir. Erin Good, Australia, 8 min ‘Being Bradford Dillman’, Dir. Emma Burch, UK, 10 min ‘Bookman’, Dir. Ben Bryan, Australia, 10 min ‘Bottled’, Dir. Michael Sloane, Australia, 9 min ‘Cloud’, Dir. Gilbert James, UK, 12 min ‘Emilia Eckle’, Dir. Alyssa McClelland, Australia, 7 min ‘Good Men’, Dir. Brian Connors, USA, 12 min ‘Life in Red String’. Dir.
The festival is currently on in Launceston, Tasmania. Winners of the competition will be announced at the Bofa Awards Dinner.
The films have been selected for reflecting the festival’s contemporary issues and this year’s themes of “new horizons” or “food for thought.”
Judges for the competition include Gregor Jordan (Dir: Ned Kelly, Two Hands) Rowan Woods (Dir: Little Fish, The Boys) and Karena Slaninka, Screen Tasmania’s CEO.
The Digital Slr Short Film Competition 2011 finalists for the MyState Bofa Film Festival are:
‘Abbie’, Dir. Erin Good, Australia, 8 min ‘Being Bradford Dillman’, Dir. Emma Burch, UK, 10 min ‘Bookman’, Dir. Ben Bryan, Australia, 10 min ‘Bottled’, Dir. Michael Sloane, Australia, 9 min ‘Cloud’, Dir. Gilbert James, UK, 12 min ‘Emilia Eckle’, Dir. Alyssa McClelland, Australia, 7 min ‘Good Men’, Dir. Brian Connors, USA, 12 min ‘Life in Red String’. Dir.
- 11/25/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
It's bad enough to fill up landfills with recyclable food packaging, but it's even worse when people start piling on the remains of hulking appliances. That's why Ge partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency this week to work on refrigeration appliance recycling best practices. It doesn't sound sexy, but Ge estimates that its new recycling technology could cut refrigerator landfill waste by 85%. Note: Nine million refrigerators are disposed of in the U.S. each year.
As it stands, 90% of used refrigerators in the U.S. are shredded for metal, with the remaining 10% of foam and other materials going to the landfill. But Ge is working with the Appliance Recycling Centers of America (Arca) to recover 95% of insulating foam found in refrigerators. The company is the first in the U.S. to use Arca's process, which automatically captures toxins and greenhouse gases (chlorofluorocarbons, hydro chlorofluorocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons, and cyclopentane) from insulating foam...
As it stands, 90% of used refrigerators in the U.S. are shredded for metal, with the remaining 10% of foam and other materials going to the landfill. But Ge is working with the Appliance Recycling Centers of America (Arca) to recover 95% of insulating foam found in refrigerators. The company is the first in the U.S. to use Arca's process, which automatically captures toxins and greenhouse gases (chlorofluorocarbons, hydro chlorofluorocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons, and cyclopentane) from insulating foam...
- 2/9/2011
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
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