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Green Dream (www.greendreammedia.com) is looking for a film co-producer!

Green Dream chronicles the journey of Maia Iotzova, a Canadian-Bulgarian documentary filmmaker as she sets out to explore the complicated relationship human beings have with nature.  Her process has led to the creation of this film, which asks the very relevant question, why do we destroy what we love?

Synopsis

Film d’auteur, 60 min

Perhaps this film is a story about a little girl and a grown woman who live between two different worlds of order and chaos, prosperity and struggle, short grass and tall grass.

It is also a story that takes everything and anything that is GREEN, stretches it out, folds it up and turns it on its side in an attempt to understand the troubled relationship between humans and nature.

But most of all this is a story about Love.

Financial Compensation

The co-producer’s fee will be a percentage of the budget and will dependent on the funds raised for the completion of the project from the point the co-producer gets involved.

Necessary Qualifications/Skills Required:

-       You are experienced in producing film (documentary, or fiction) and might have some experience with New Media.

-       You are ready to try something new and would like to be a part of an atypical creative experience

-       You have experience in Producing in the Film/TV/New Media/Art or Non-Profit fields.

-       You are able to think conventionally AND experimentally about ways to get money and fund projects.  This also applies to the way you approach outreach, marketing, release and distribution of the film.

-       You have good administrative, organizational and budgeting skills

-       You are ready to contribute to a project with your creative as well as your pragmatic expertise.

-       You are comfortable working on a project in an intuitive way where the final product is allowed to emerge from the process.

-       You like to produce work, which expresses your love for life.

What the project has to offer:

-       The chance to be on the cutting edge of artistic documentary cinema

-       Working with a Director who incorporates multi disciplinary approaches from film/visual art/new media/ animation/performance art/social change and activist fields/ personal development and spiritual fields/life

-       Green Dream experiments with an intuitive way of discovering the story.  The goal is to be honest, playful and humble.  While emphasis is on the process artistic merit and high production quality are kept as important elements.

-       A chance to work with a Directrice, who is a hard working visionary and believes in living her dreams (perhaps, in the process inspiring others to do so)

-       A project which is in its mid stage of completion, with 70% of production being funded and completed

-       A project, which has been inspiring people to live their higher potential

-       A project, which has accumulated a web and a real life community in the process of its creation (www.greendreammedia.com/blog)

One sheet, detailed film treatment and updated video teaser is available upon request by contacting Maia Iotzova – maiavideo@gmail.com

Green Dream Media’s Vision

One of my favorite quotes says:

“Everyone wants to have a revolution but nobody wants to do the dishes.”

I want to expose the process of change and transformation in everyday life.  Green Dream is about creating a revolution in the process of doing the dishes and changing the world one heart at a time.

I have been contemplating commitment a bit more.  I realized that interestingly my fear of commitment came from fear of letting go.  I could see myself being stuck because I was holding on to too much.   On one hand I want to take all my options with me, and I am not willing to let go of any of them “if I let go of this I will loose it forever”, “but maybe this will come in handy, so I should hold it as tight as I can”.  So it is a bit hard to move forward when I am holding onto things.

On another hand I am too scared to make a choice because “what if I am wrong”  “what if this road is a dead end”  “what if it leads to a lonely, scary place “.   To continue I have to let go of wanting to make the right choice.  So how do you let go?

I think part of my problem is that I think letting go means loosing something forever, it means separation and pain.  Here is a good explanation of letting go from http://www.buddhanet.net/4noble14.htm

“When you find yourself attached, remember that ‘letting go’ is not ‘getting rid of’ or ‘throwing away’. If I’m holding onto this clock and you say, ‘Let go of it!’, that doesn’t mean ‘throw it out’. I might think that I have to throw it away because I’m attached to it, but that would just be the desire to get rid of it. We tend to think that getting rid of the object is a way of getting rid of attachment. But if I can contemplate attachment, this grasping of the clock, I realise that there is no point in getting rid of it – it’s a good clock; it keeps good time and is not heavy to carry around. The clock is not the problem. The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside – put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.”

“Now with personal problems and obsessions, to let go of them is just that much. It is not a matter of analysing and endlessly making more of a problem about them, but of practising that state of leaving things alone, letting go of them. At first, you let go but then you pick them up again because the habit of grasping is so strong. But at least you have the idea. Even when I had that insight into letting go, I let go for a moment but then I started grasping by thinking: ‘I can’t do it, I have so many bad habits!’ But don’t trust that kind of nagging, disparaging thing in yourself. It is totally untrustworthy. It is just a matter of practising letting go. The more you begin to see how to do it, then the more you are able to sustain the state of non-attachment.”
In my case I think I simply need to take one road and see where it leads me, without worrying so much if it is the right road or not.

Which made me think of Robert Frost

Yes that is true, I never know how to spell committment…

I love new opportunities, traveling to new places, making new friends, starting new projects with many many layers. Generally I love to do everything, so commitment to a specific few or even one thing does not come naturally to me, and actually makes me very nervous.

Recently this fear has been really eating away at me.  Over Christmas I started reading about commitment phobia.  I like this exert, perfect for my love challenge:

“I firmly believe that showing commitment to something, or someone, is one of life’s most empowering (and liberating) experiences. It’s how we achieve; how we grow; how we learn; and how we love.

Yes, commitment is love.“

From the Self Help Collective on All About Fear of Commitment

And I love this quote:

“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence.
When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”
– Warren Farrell

I got this e-mail in my mailbox today.  It came from Dr.Morty Lefkoe to me.  Well more like his big mailing list which I got signed up to after I did his free internet program on eliminating limited beliefs.  www.recreateyourlife.com

I do like what his says here:

“Over the years I’ve seen one characteristic in common
with most people who don’t succeed.

And, no, it’s not bad strategy or lack of good ideas,
although those are significant barriers too.

The main barrier to success is lack of action.

If this is your problem–

If you need a greater ability to…

*Persist, despite obstacles, until you succeed
*Confidently take on projects even if they involve some
risk of failure
*Speak up even if you think others don’t care or won’t
approve
*Stop focusing on what others think and start focusing
on what you really want to do
*Take immediate action to achieve your goals….”

After all success is a relative concept.

Wishing you Happy 2010 with a collection of cell phone snapshots of hearts.   May this year bring love to the world!

Since I am still Love challenged, the Green Dream Love challenge will continue.  I am making the commitment to dedicate the whole year to Love and to living in the present.   You can do that too.

Stay tuned for more inspiration, reflections and sometimes frustrations from this journey.