Comments for Escape from Suburbia - a documentary review at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:52:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/2092-escape-from-suburbia-a-documentary-review.html#comment-2953 Lovely review, Carolyn! The tough thing about films is the ~90 minute time constraint. This topic is so huge, it's like trying to fit Handel's Messiah into the three-minute pop music time constraint. I think it's great that Greg and Dara left so many open questions! These are questions people need to be asking, questions without contemporary, sound-bite answers. As Thomas Pynchon wrote, [i]"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."[/i] This film should be troubling to the powers-that-be, in that it gets people asking the right questions. I can offer a stab an one of the questions: [i]"How will newcomers to an ecovillage be received, and how will they integrate into the community?"[/i]. I'd like to recommend a new book by Diana Leafe Christian, [i][url=http://creating-a-life-together.org]Finding Community.[/url][/i] It offers answers based on years as editor of [i]Communities Magazine,[/i] the house organ of [url=http://fic.ic.org]The Fellowship for Intentional Community.[/i] If there's one theme that, though evident throughout the film, was perhaps too subtle, it's that community will be the key to successfully navigating the coming energy decline. The current social emphases on family and individualism is a direct result of the hundreds of "energy slaves" who transport us, light our path, and provide us with food and shelter. As these "virtual helpers" become more dear, we will need to replace them with real, human helpers. Eldercare and large medical establishments, for example, are symptomatic of excess energy, and those of us who are middle-aged should be making ourselves valuable to the next few generations, so they'll want to keep us around. See the return of the "tribe" and community as the wave of the future, and start working on it [b]now![/b] :::: Jan Steinman, Communication Steward [url=http://www.EcoReality.org]EcoReality[/url] :::: - a guest Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:22:42 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/2092-escape-from-suburbia-a-documentary-review.html#comment-2847 Hi there, Just a little clarification on some things mentioned in Carolyn's fine review of our film. The screening fee is not accurate and was never verified by me. The prices for screenings as well as individual DVDs reduce as we manage to pay down the considerable debt that was incurred in our making Escape from Suburbia. We released this film immediately into the marketplace instead of holding it back for a year through a distributor so we've taken on considerable risk in offering what folks wanted. Beginning Nov 1 we'll be opening the gates so people can sell the DVD off of their websites too, to provide even more access to the film. As we now complete the premiere screenings, we're reducing screening fees for presentations after November 5 so more and more community groups and show the film. Greg and I are so appreciative of the interest in our film, and want to thank everyone who has purchased the DVD or hosted a screening for supporting independent filmmaking. As we became critically aware while making Escape, we're all in this together. Dara Rowland Producer Escape from Suburbia - a guest Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:42:45 +0100