Continuing Inspiration - Huge Thank you to Local Organizations

Since we've been down here in Newport Beach/Costa Mesa, we have met some great organizations that are alreay working hard for zero waste and plastics pollution and who really care about both the environment and their community. It's so inpiring to meet people who are so engaged!

As independent filmmakers, having people like this on board with your message is amazing. They've been helping us get the word out to the public, and we can't say enough great things about these organizations:

The Newport Bay Conservancy has organized many clean up events yearly to bring awareness to the trash situation as part of their education program. They don't use water bottles at major events, and they often request attendees to bring their own containers. They event borrowed enough mix & match plates for 250 attendees for a fundraiser BBQ - how awesome is that!?

The Surfrider Foundation spans the entire coast and works to educate people about pollution in our occeans and protect the "waves and beaches". They sponsored us in Ucluelet, BC and all three local chapters (Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, and Long Beach) have jumped on board the film here in Newport Beach.

Newport Beach Farmer's Market - I already love farmer's markets, and any market that has local oranges is a must see in my book!

Algalita Marine Research Foundation - Not only did Charles Moore donate his time for an interview in our movie, he is also coming to our screening! Algalita has been bringing awareness of plastics pollution and ocean health worldwide for 16 years!

To all the organizations above and to all others that have taken an interest in The Clean Bin Project - Thank you! We'll see you this afternoon!

Newport Beach Here We Come!

The Newport Beach Film Festival starts this Thursday, and we are so excited to be taking part! Our screening is on Tues, May 3rd at 3:00pm, so if you know anyone in the Orange County/Newport Beach/LA area, please let them know. You can find more details here.

Captain Charles Moore who is featured in our film and who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will be in attendance at our screening, so we are super excited for him to see the film for the first time!

Thanks to Algalita Marine Research Foundation and the local Surfrider chapters for helping get the word out about our screening! We can wait for some time in the California sun and to see the wack of great films (literally hundreds) at the festival! let us know if you have any must see films or events!

School Screenings

We had our first screenings today with a 50 minute student version of The Clean Bin Project.

It was really, really hard to trim 25 minutes off the film, but a shorter version fits better in a class block. We were pretty nervous for our first test screening of the kids cut, but it went awesome! We did two back to back blocks at Van Tech Secondary, and the students were really receptive. They asked all the hard questions right off the bat - like what about toilet paper and condoms and feminine hygiene - you know, the important stuff.

We even got to sign a couple autographs which seriously made us feel like rockstars. (excuse the crappy photo, but we just had to record that moment).

We're going to make a couple tiny tweaks, and then we hope to have the short DVD cuts available to schools. By September, we hope to have school districts all over showing The Clean Bin Project and chatting zero waste!