Lights. Camera. Help. Festival
The Lights. Camera. Help Festival is happening again this year, and if you live in Austin or are visiting in the last few days of July, you should get some tickets and go.
Why? First, altruism aside, it’s an interesting, engaging event. Last year just by sitting on my tookus for a few hours I learned a lot about how nonprofits and causes approach film and video, how they use it, and what they need from the public to help their missions. Some of the films were hilarious, some were touching, and of course some were boring or bad, but that helps the good ones shine in comparison. I’m particularly looking forward to Adventures for a Cure, about four diabetic cyclists doing a very, very burly ride across the US.
It’s also a great way to support not only the organizations on display, but Lights. Camera. Help. itself, which is also a nonprofit providing services to other nonprofits – helping them produce better video materials and helping them use those materials more effectively.
It also might just change your life a little bit. Viewing the gristly and wrenching “Fowl Play” – about industrial chicken farming – led me very quickly down the path of raising some chickens of my own. Sometimes a nonprofit has to beat you over the head with reality, and in this case, it worked….sort of, they really want you to be vegan but I’m not ready for that yet. Let me know if you want some eggs!
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| From 2010 February |
