Educational Video Premiere: "My Life as a Tire"

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-2"><div class="form-item"> <label>Location: </label> Slave Lake </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p><em>Regional Environmental Action Committee and “My Life” Video Productions Present:</em></p><p>The Video Premiere Release Event for</p><p><strong>&quot;My Life as a Tire&quot;</strong><br />educational video production</p><p>What natural resources would say about how they became a product.<br /><br /> &quot;My Life as a Tire&quot; is the second video in the &quot;My Life&quot; Video Series to promote recycling and environmental stewardship. The series complements the Alberta Grade IV Curriculum Unit, &quot;Waste and Our World&quot; and will be distributed with a teachers’ guide by <a href="http://www.cinefete.ca">Ciné Fête</a> (Montréal).</p><p> While managing mountains of waste as a Landfill Manager, Jule Asterisk wrote and directed this video to provide youth with motivation for waste reduction. She worked with <a href="http://www.toyotires.ca/">Toyo Tire</a>, <a href="http://www.dofasco.ca/">Dofasco Steel</a>, <a href="http://www.columbianchemicals.com/">Columbian Chemicals</a>, the National Film Board of Malaysia and Canetic Energy Services to obtain footage of how resources are extracted and produced into tires, with the<br /><a href="http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/index.htm">Alberta Legislative Library</a> and <a href="http://www.albertarecycling.ca/">Alberta Recycling Management Authority</a> to determine the history of tire recycling in Alberta and with Rubber Tech International to document post-consumer recycled tire products. With cinematography by Richard Gustavsen, soundtrack by <a href="http://www.chriswynters.com/">Chris Wynters</a> (<a href="http://www.captaintractor.com/">Captain Tractor</a>), animation by <a href="http://www.ethereal3d.com/">Ethereal 3D</a> and an introduction by Premier Ralph Klein, this video speaks to the international aspect of a product that is better off recycled than wasted.</p><p>Funding for this video production was provided by the <a href="http://www.cifvf.ca/">Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund</a>, <a href="http://albertalotteryfund.ca/grants/community_initiatives.asp">Community Initiatives Program</a>, <a href="http://www.northerncare.org/">Northern Coordinated Action for Recycling Enterprises</a>, <a href="http://www.albertarecycling.ca">Alberta Recycling Management Authority</a>, <a href="http://www.slavelake.ca/">Town of Slave Lake</a> and the <a href="http://www.md124.ca/">Municipal District of Lesser Slave River</a>.<br /><br />Sawridge Hotel, Slave Lake, Alberta<br />Saturday October 28, 2006, 7:00 p.m.<br /><strong>More information: </strong>780-805-3403</p> </div> </div></div>
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