8th Continent Soymilk Taste of Life Tour- San Diego Film Festival

Every year, San Diego gets together and appreciates the amazing art that is film. This year was no exception!

The films I was fortunate enough to see:

Wyland’s Earth Day

One Water

A collection of San Diego Shorts- Including Love in Bulk

Houston We Have a Problem

*Wyland’s Earth Day*

I started my adventure with Wyland’s Earth Day. The short film was about the artist and environmentalist Wyland, who took on the challenge of painting a 2.8 acre roof in one day: on Earth day. The Earth Day tribute was titled, “Earth: The Blue Planet.”, atop the Long Beach Arena. It was truly inspiring to see the dedication of a man creating art for a cause- with the help of a few friends. The best part though? Wyland himself was there for Q&A. As I waited in line to purchase his newest book, “Wyland: 100 Whaling Walls”, he approached me, noticed my wrist tattoo and continued to show me his octopus tattoo on his forearm. He chatted with everyone that was interested, complete with hugs, smiles, and pictures.

Not only does he make amazing art, but you can check out the non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, protecting, and preserving the world’s ocean, waterways, and marine life. The Wyland Foundation encourages environmental awareness through education programs, public arts projects, and community events.

Learn more about this amazing art (and cause!) by going to: http://wyland.com/

*One Water*

The next film was about the importance and preciousness of water throughout the world. Living in the United States, it is difficult not to take our easily-accessible resources for granted. Where does water come from? The faucet right? Well in this film you see a man leading a donkey to the ice capped mountains to break blocks of ice, tediously wrap them with foliage to conserve the cold, and carefully lead the donkey, and the precious ice back down the mountains. The ice then transfers to the man’s back who lugs the ice blocks to the rest of the town. He gets his minuscule pay, and starts the process over again.

Then you see eight year old girls in India learning how to carry bowls and pots on their heads for miles to provide the only water source their family has.

One Water was truly an eye-opening film. I have always done the normal things that seem to be common sense: turn the water off when brushing your teeth, don’t shower an entire reality TV show’s episode worth, make sure your faucet isn’t dripping, etc. etc. But isn’t there something more we could do?

To read more about this go to:

http://www.onewaterthemovie.org/

*Love in Bulk*

This has to be one of my favorite shorts I got to see! VERY CUTE! Check out the trailer below:

I can just picture it now:

New film: Love in Lean!!!!

A timid vegetarian woman is shopping one day at a Ralph’s or Kroger’s and she reaches for the 8th Continent Complete Soymilk. His hand brushes hers while he reaches for the 8th Continent chocolate soymilk. After a quick glance into each other’s eyes, hers go straight to her Birkenstocks as she blushes. He starts to whisper how firm his tofu is… they pick out a bowflex together, and leave together with visions of broccoli and Boca Burgers dancing int heir heads… love? lust? let’s just call it perfection.

(Perfect reason why I write blog posts, not make films… hehe)

*Houston We Have a Problem*

Houston We Have a Problem affected me the most. The film is about America’s addiction to foreign oil and our desperate need to find renewable energy sources that we can depend on within the US. But it is not the typical anti-oil/anti-import film that you may imagine. The majority of the film is told from the point of view of  CEOs, presidents, and former CEOs of these supposedly big bad oil companies. It tells the history of the oil companies, what has happened in the past with oil crises, and how history could repeat itself in the future. Despite the controversy, even the top dogs at the oil companies concur that finding renewable energy sources is a vital necessity of the future of America.

What do you think?

To find out more about the film, visit:

http://houstonwehaveaproblemfilm.com/

Until then we all know gas is expensive. Right now 8th Continent is giving away $100 gas card. All you have to do is go to:

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The San Diego Film Festival has been one of my favorite stops so far!!! I met some amazing people, found out about some awesome causes and learned a tremendous amount about things I think we should be teaching everyone!

Next stop: UC San Diego and San Diego State!

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