In This Newsflash:
1. Mixed Greens – Friday, May 30, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario --TODAY
2. Employment Opportunity – Call for Instructors, YCA
3. YCA applications now available online
4. Submissions open. Submit your film now.

1. Mixed Greens, Friday, May 30, 2008, 6:45pm - Pay What You Can

Join us at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park on the last Friday of each month as we celebrate the best environmental films from our 2007 festival! Selected straight from our 2007 festival line-up, here is your chance to experience again or for the first time this rare and note worthy collection of films from around the country and around the world!

Screening Friday, May 30, 6:45pm:

The Islands Project
Michael Stadtlander
Canada, documentary, 2007
102 mins.

During the summer of 2006, chef Michael Stadtlander journeyed on his biodiesel/solar powered kitchen bus, The Liberator, with his family and a group of apprentices from his farm in Ontario heading west to Vancouver, Quadra and Cortes Islands, in British Columbia. He was returning to the province that nurtured and inspired his early days as a chef in Canada. In each locale he encounters artists, farmers, oyster cultivators, environmentalists and loggers dedicated to environmentally sustainable business practices and the bounty of their islands. In plein-air dinners made with locally raised and foraged ingredients he lavishes his local guests with the delectable creations of his edible art. You will wish you were there.

2. Call for Video Instructors – Youth Camera Action 2008

Job description:
Planet in Focus, the International Environmental Film & Video Festival, is looking for instructors for our Youth, Camera, Action Environmental Video Production Camp. YCA is a two-week environmentally themed video production training camp for youth between the ages of 14 – 18. This year, YCA runs from Monday August 11th – Friday August 22nd. Participants learn how to conceptualize, shoot and edit short environmentally themed videos that are later screened as part of the annual festival program in October. For the participants, YCA is an opportunity to learn about the environment, acquire valuable video-making skills, make new friends and create a short video (in any genre) and have it screened publicly at a our festival in October! For the instructors this is a chance to hone and develop your leadership skills.

Reporting to the head on-site instructor, instructors are each assigned to lead one group (of up to 5 students.) It is the instructor’s job to guide the youth through the program’s curriculum over the two-week period as a teacher and mentor, to ensure students stay on schedule, provide addition technical support when required, ensure participants are behaving in a professional manner, working well amongst each other and having fun.

Skills required:

• Strong film or video production/post-production background (professional, amateur/independent or schooling are all valid)
• Strong knowledge of camera, sound, lighting and digital editing techniques
• Experience working with youth
• Teaching or instructional experience preferred
• Interest in the environment
• Strong communicator and problem solver
• Organized
• Outgoing and a good motivator

To apply, mail, fax or e-mail a resume and cover letter by Friday June 27th, 2008 to:

Mail:
Youth, Camera, Action: Instructor
c/o Planet in Focus,
The Distillery District, 55 Mill Street, Case Goods Warehouse, Building 74, Studio 402, Toronto, ON, M5A 3C4, Canada
Fax: 416.531.8985

E-mail: submissions@planetinfocus.org

For more information on the camp please visit our webpage at www.planetinfocus.org/yca

3. YCA applications now available online

Youth Camera Action! - Environmental Video Production Camp
August 11-27, 2008

Unique to Toronto, Youth Camera Action is a two-week camp that combines the exciting world of film and video production with the environment. Geared toward youth between the ages of 14 – 18 from the GTA, participants will explore important environmental issues through the camera’s lens and have the opportunity to create their very own video. This program is designed to encourage creative exploration and expression while developing fundamental awareness of global environmental issues.

All videos will screen at the Green Sprouts Youth Filmmakers’ Showcase at the Planet in Focus Film Festival in October!

Eligible applicants accepted on a first come first serve basis

For more details about YCA and Planet in Focus visit:
www.planetinfocus.org/yca

4. Submissions open. Submit your film to be considered for the 2008 festival

Planet in Focus is now accepting submissions for the 2008 Festival that runs October 22 - 26.

Download the entry form here: www.planetinfocus.org/festival/submissions

Final Deadline: June 20, 2008

Green Sprouts! Showcase
Back for 2008, the Green Sprouts! Youth Filmmakers' Showcase gives voice to filmmakers 18 years old and younger. The Showcase will run alongside the Youth, Camera, Action! program during the 2008 Festival.

Download the entry form to apply
Deadline: June 27, 2008

Return completed entry forms to: submissions@planetinfocus.org

Mailing Address:
Planet in Focus: International Environmental Film & Video Festival
55 Mill Street, Case Goods Warehouse
Building 74, Studio 402
Toronto, ON M5A 3C4
Canada

Planet in Focus produces Canada’s most acclaimed international environmental film and video festival, and the 9th Annual Festival will run from October 22-26, in Toronto. This year’s Spotlight Program is on Food: The Big Picture, showing films from around the world examining a wide range of issues on this most timely topic. The festival will include panel discussions and an exploration of the global food crisis.