Toronto Dollar Events

MINT Film Festival Presents

The Economics Of Happiness

a film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steve Gorelick & John Page

– Thursday, May 26th at 6:30pm, Rainbow Cinemas Market Square (80 Front St. E.)

This screening of the award-winning feature film The Economics Of Happiness is co-hosted by The Toronto Dollar and Transition Toronto. Thomas H. Greco, internationally known Community and Monetary Economist, will lead the post-screening discussion on alternative economic systems, providing inspiration and new ideas for a healthier economic future.

Leh-Lo will be the evening’s musical guest and will perform from 5:30–6:30pm in the theatre. The featured short for the evening will be Home Grown by Toronto Director Jennifer Renaud. Jane Hayes of Garden Jane will be present for the announcement of a $10,000 Toronto Dollar grant towards an innovative breakfast program in the St. Lawrence Market Neighbourhood Area. Gregory Greene, award-winning Director of The End of Suburbia and Escape From Suburbia, will be filming Tom's post-screening talk. Find out more about Gregory's work at ResilientPLANET.com.

Advance tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors, and can be purchased in person at the Rainbow Cinemas Market Square or from selected Toronto Dollar representatives and businesses. Tickets at the door are $12. For more info please visit mintff.org.

Synopsis for The Economics Of Happiness: This critically acclaimed documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions: governments and big businesses continuing to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power, while people around the world are resisting these policies. Citizens are demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance; and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human-scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.

MINT Film Festival Presents
Thursday April 21st at 7:00 pm
Sylvie Van Brabant’s Earth Keepers
Rainbow Cinemas Market Square (80 Front St. East)

The MINT FILM FESTIVAL screens The Award-winning Canadian documentary Earth Keepers by Sylvie Van Brabant and 2 Film Shorts on Nuclear Power at Rainbow Cinemas Market Square (80 Front Street East) on April 21st 2011 at 7:00 pm. Marc Sepic will be the evening's musical guest and will perform from 5:30 – 7:00 pm at Rainbow Cinemas. The April 21st MINT Film Festival Screening is co-hosted by The Toronto Dollar, The International Institute of Concern for Public Health (IICPH) and The Ontario Clean Air Alliance. IICPH guest speaker Anna Tillman and Angela Bischoff (OCAA) will be attendance for a post screening Q&A on Nuclear Power and will give an update on Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The MINT Film festival is a new monthly Toronto event at Rainbow Cinemas Market Square that features thought provoking inspiring films that connect directors, activists and community members through proactive discussions. Each month a feature and short film will be screened and special guest speakers will introduce the event and facilitate a group discussion focused on the theme of the film.

Advance MINT Film Festival tickets are $9 for adults and $7 for students and seniors and can be purchased in person at the Rainbow Cinemas Market Square box office prior to the screening or reserved through email (info@mintff.org).

Screening Programme

Pre-Screening Activities 5:30 – 7:00 pm

Guitarist Mark Sepic will be the MINT Film Festival’s Feature Performer from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm at Rainbow Cinemas Market Square. Mark, an accomplished guitarist and singer will also play selected “Junkestra” instruments which are beautiful “sustainable music” creations built out of junk, as a way to inspire creative re-use and recycling. To watch a video of Mark’s Guitar playing visit www.mintff.org

Screening Program begins at 7:00 pm

MINT Film Festival Shorts

2 shorts on Nuclear Power will be screened before the Feature Film Earth Keepers
Minister by Vickie Lesley and The Myth Of Nuclear Deterrence by Erik Choquette
For more information on these films please visit the festival website www.mintff.org

MINT April Feature Film: Earth Keepers – A Survival Guide For A Planet In Peril

This award winning documentary traces the quest of Mikael Rioux, a young activist from Trois-Pistoles, Quebec. Eighty-year-old Christian de Laet, a pioneering Canadian environmentalist, Rioux's guide and mentor, urges him to go and meet visionary men and women implementing innovative projects for the future of society. We meet India’s Ashok Khosla, the charismatic president of Development Alternatives, the largest alternative development NGO in the world; as well as Karl-Henrik Robèrt, the brilliant Swedish oncologist turned sustainable development guru. We also meet Canadian eco-designer John Todd and his “living machines,” which mimic the cycles of nature for waste-water reclamation; Todd states that we have the ability to reduce our impact on the environment by 90 percent immediately. We travel to Zurich, the heart of international finance, with the humanist economist Peter Koenig; we meet Marilyn Melhmann, the driving force behind the Global Action Plan; and we listen to a heart-to-heart conversation with Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement.

After meeting these realist visionaries, Mikael returns home pumped up, confident and driven by a sense of urgency. Therein lies the great strength of this documentary: This young man’s inquiry becomes our own, and a vibrant plea to end our lethargic ways.

Earth Keepers, with its eloquent imagery, evocative soundtrack and dynamic editing, conveys clear-minded hope and is a remarkable, inspiring survival guide for all those who refuse to give up, despite the enormity of the challenges we may face.

Documentary by Sylvie Van Brabant
2009, 82 minutes
• Best Canadian Long Form Film, Planet in Focus 2009
• Official Competition, features IDFA 2009
• Audience Award, Festival de Films de Portneuf sur l’environnement 2010
•  Finalist in Best documentary about Science and Nature category, Gémeaux gala 2010
• Environmental Award, Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF)
Post Screening Discussion:

Guest Speakers: Angela Bischoff, Outreach Director from The Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA) will be sharing the stage with Anna Tilman from the International Institute Of Concern for Public Health for our post-screening discussion on Nuclear Power. Anna Tilman will also give a update on the IICPH’s statement on Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster.

For more info please visit MINT Film Festival Official Website: www.mintff.org

Green Tech PC Toss

Learn about recycling computers, watch a free movie, join a jam session and donate your old used computers to be put to good use.

Date: Saturday Nov 20th
Time: 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: 51 Vine Avenue, near Keele and Dundas

1:00 pm: PRESENTATION: Recycling Computers 101
2:00 pm: MOVIE: "Garbage! - The Revolution starts at home"
Snacks and refreshments will be available from Toronto Dollar.
4:00 pm: Acoustic Jam Session!

Drop off your OLD COMPUTERS, MONITORS, KEYBOARDS, and other COMPUTER ACCESSORIES, working or not!
We will REUSE them, REFURBISH them and give them to the needy, or RECYCLE ethically.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT, FREE PARKING AVAILABLE at 51 Vine

Sponsored by: Free Geek Toronto and Toronto Dollar
www.freegeektoronto.org
www.torontodollar.com