Hundreds of Students, Film Cast and Crew Use Their Bodies to Create Visual Message on Global Warming

Hundreds of Students, Film Cast and Crew Use Their Bodies to Create Visual Message on Global Warming

Satellite Video Feed on Monday, January 22

PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Working Films has teamed with John Quigley of Spectral Q, who will direct a human aerial image encouraging the growing community concerned with the perils of global warming, to take immediate action by becoming carbon neutral.

Today 800 students, along with the cast and crew of "Everything's Cool," a film that premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival, will form a message with their bodies which will spell out "Step It Up." The image also contains a circle with bear paws, representing carbon neutral footprints and a word in Inuktitut meaning, "I hear you and I am doing something about it."

Park City's students are sending that message back to the Arctic Inuit Community, who on Earth Day 2005 lay on the Arctic Sea ice in 30 below temperatures sharing the ancient wisdom of their elders and warning the world about the devastating impact the melting arctic will have on the rest of the world.

Working Films, a 501 (c) 3 dedicated to the advancement of social, environmental and racial justice issues is partnering with "Everything's Cool" in a two-year audience and community engagement campaign for action on global warming. "The themes and messages of this film arrive at such a critical moment in our struggle to see action on the issue of global warming," said Robert West, co-founder and executive director of Working Films. "The image we're creating today demonstrates that each individual is a necessary part of the chain for change; by linking together, we can create a call to action."

Shelia Watt-Cloutier, the most decorated environmental activist of 2006 and former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference will be on hand to link the two communities Iqaluit and Park City under the banner of action.

Spectral Q and Cucolaris who specialize in social messaging are jointly coordinating the event. This is part of a series of aerial images; the next will be created in Greenland in May of this year to encourage individuals and corporations to go carbon neutral.

Footage of the Park City aerial message will be fed via satellite

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Working Films

Working Films was co-founded by veteran film festival curator and media educator Robert West and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and organizer Judith Helfand in late 1999.

We are neither a production company nor a distributor. We work with filmmakers -- at every stage -- to maximize their work in coordinated community education efforts, consumer organizing campaigns, activist movements and classroom projects. We work with organizers to enrich their on-going grassroots efforts with relevant, vital media. We work with educators to bring into the classroom critical independent film and video on issues of social and economic justice. With a diverse staff and board, we are an innovative, active and strategic resource for the world of independent film, serving a national role as strategists, consultants and community builders.

Spectral Q

John Quigley of Spectral Q has created 75 human aerial art images involving nearly 100,000 people around the globe. From icebergs in Antarctica to the disappearing arctic ice shelf, to landscapes all over North America and Europe, these images have generated extensive global media coverage. The mission of Spectral Q is to cultivate creative expression and to facilitate collaborative art for the common good. Past images have focused on the issues of global warming, peace, human rights, freedom and protecting the environment.

Everything's Cool, a toxic-comedy directed by Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand, is about the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. The good news: America finally gets global warming, the chasm is closing and the debate is over. The bad news: the United States, the country that will determine the fate of the globe, must transform its fossil fuel based economy fast, (like in a minute). While the industry funded naysayers sing what just might be their swan song of scientific doubt and deception, a group of self-appointed global warming messengers are on a life-and-death quest to find the iconic image, proper language, and points of leverage that will help the public go from embracing the urgency of the problem to creating the political will necessary to push for a new energy economy. Hold on -- this is bigger than changing your light bulbs.

Source: Working Films

CONTACT: Lindsay Currie of Venture Communications, +1-202-628-7772 or
lcurrie@venturecommunications.com, for Working Films

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