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Fourth Annual Festival

03:47 min
Flash Animation
Director: Louis Fox
Producer: Sustainable Table, Free Range Graphics

Winner of the Film for Thought Award
Sponsored by Heifer International

FILMMAKER BIOS

Jonah and Louis are founding partners of Free Range Graphics. Their pioneering work in Flash technology has been seen by many millions of Web users, and has been featured in dozens of top newspapers and TV news networks across the nation and the world including CNN’s Crossfire, The Washington Post, Fox News and The New York Times. In 2001, Jonah and Louis were named two of “The Thirty People Saving the Earth” by Shift magazine. They are widely considered a leader in the powerful new movement to progressive political and social messages to the general public through use of the Web, info@freerangegraphics.com.

Free Range Graphics, Producer

Free Range Graphics is Creativity with a Conscience. We know we could be using our talents to sell cheeseburgers or sneakers, but we feel that an inherent part of creativity is the creation of something positive and meaningful. That’s why we concentrate on offering top-quality design and publicity services to companies and organizations whose vision goes beyond turning the world into a strip mall. And while our clients range from world — wide activists like Amnesty International to independent stores trying to survive in an age of franchises, they all share our belief that a life’s work should create, not corrupt. Based in Washington DC, our services include graphic design for print and Web, campaign conception and strategy. We also provide back-end Web services like database management and custom-built Web applications. http://www.freerangegraphics.com.

The Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE), Winner of Free Range Flash Activism Grant

GRACE is a nonprofit organization that works with research, policy and grassroots communities to provide information and promote solutions to preserve the planet for future generations. One of the GRACE’s main programs — the GRACE Factory Farm Project - works to eliminate factory farming in favor of a sustainable food production system that is healthful and humane, economically viable and ecologically sound. Initiatives within the Project include: Sustainable Table — A broad-based consumer campaign created to educate the public about sustainable food and increase consumer demand through awareness campaigns, promotional events and education about viable solutions to the factory farm problem; the Factory Farm Campaign — A unique team of expert consultants who help rural communities, family ranchers, and small farmers oppose the spread of new factory farms and close down existing ones that affect health and well-being. The team provides economic analysis and organizational support to threatened communities; The Henry Spira/GRACE Project on Industrial Animal Production — A partnership between GRACE and the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health to foster interdisciplinary research on industrial animal production and address impacts on diet, the environment, and on human and animal health; Food Irradiation Campaign — In partnership with Public Citizen, GRACE supports an international effort to inform the public of the risks of food irradiation used merely to mask the unhealthy practices of agribusiness and to prolong “shelf-life” for international trade in meat. GRACE also works to eliminate nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and to clean up the toxic legacy of the nuclear age through its Nuclear Abolition Project. http://www.gracelinks.org.