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On November 1, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts hosted "Reel Earth: A Green Carpet Event"--the world premiere screening of six powerful short films produced this summer as part of Remedee's Reel Earth program.

RSVP today...seats are filling up!

Thank you to all our friends and supporters for making our event at Quiksilver's SiteLA a huge success! Remedee teamed up with GOOD to debut our organization to a do-gooder crowd in Los Angeles. The turnout was great and the audience was captive as we projected a sampling of our kids' Reel Earth: New Orleans films onto the walls of this cool loft space.

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Screening Troy's film: "The Water"

A captive audience

In the spirit of Remedee's vision to inspire global change through a local lens, this week we brought Reel Earth: New Orleans participant Crayola to CivWorld's Global Interdependence Youth Summit in Brussels, Belgium.

Who:  Remedee + GOOD

What: Please join us for the debut of Remedee, a nonprofit organization that seeks to amplify the voices of the next generation by providing youth with the resources and education to create change.

When: Thursday, September 18, 2008
8-11pm

Where: Quiksilver's siteLA , 2522 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles

Featuring: Free cocktails & music accompanied by an introduction to Reel Earth: a series of short documentaries created by New Orleans youth on the environmental issues impacting their lives.

RSVP: remedee@goodinc.com

Remedee is breaking ground with today's launch of Reel Earth in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Reel Earth:

Reel Earth is a global program to enable young people to collectively create a series of documentary films that explore the link between global environmental degradation and their own personal realities. The tone is urgent yet hopeful, inspiring participants to rise to action, as well as generate awareness among their peers, consumers and policymakers.

Students had 20 minutes to answer… What do you want this program to be? What do you want to learn?

“This is your program and you are in charge. We’re working for you,” we told them in the hopes of encouraging their sense of ownership and continuing our overarching goal of youth empowerment.

BLAIR

For me it means fun and learning how to make movies. Reflect ourselves what we think what were against of what we like to do show our family and our friends.

What I expect from you guys is to help us when we need your help. Teach us different stuff and to not be boring.

Teach us how to do:
Editing
Acting
How to have a perfect movie

DYLAN

*I want to learn how to edit and make film
*Also I want to get along with you guys, be friends
*And expect to have a short film done
*A little profession in directing and acting
*Also know how to operate a camera
*And to accomplish (end of sentence erased)

WHAT A FILM NEEDS:
according to the kids of LA Academy Film Camp (some assistance provided by Remedee Staff)

· Idea
· Special Effects
· Coffee. “And food.” “Yeah… Kraft Services.” Blair: “Or BK!”
· Talk about the plan
· Look around for a location. Alex Perez: “So how do you film at Burger King?” Dylan: “Don’t you have to ask the manager?”
· Script. Blair: “Somebody’s going to have a problem.”
· Director
· Extras
· Sound (specialist and equipment)
· “The person that goes around and tells people to get stuff done” (Production Manager or alternatively Assistant Director)
· Writer
· Camera Guy (or Gal)
· Editor
· Art Director. “What’s that?” Ana Trinidad: “The person who imagines what the area you see will be. And they decide props.”
· Costumes
· Makeup
· Cinematographer
· Actors
· Financier and a Budget. Will: “You need money to buy stuff. And pay the actors.”

WHAT WOULD THE LAAMS STUDENTS WANT TO DO?

Dylan: “Directing.”
Will: nods. “Directing”
Lucía: “Filming.”
Blair: “Costumes.”