In this new year, resolve to seek beauty, truth, harmony…the promise of the future and the blessings of today. Live well, laugh often, love much, gain the respect & the love of children; fill your niche, accomplish your tasks; leave the world better than you found it. Appreciate Earth’s beauties & express it. Look for the best in others and give the best you have!
Come join us in celebrating the 20th Anniversary season of the Moondance International Film Festival!
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Please note: Films may be submitted by the film’s director, producer, a lead actor, editor, film score composer or distributor, with permission of the director or distributor.
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” ~ Edward Abbey
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“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
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CHANGE YOUR DIET TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE IN 2019
By Lisa Drayer, CNN
www.allotmentgarden.com
You may be aware that a plant-based diet can make you healthier by lowering your risk for obesity, heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. But research shows there’s another good reason to regularly eat meatless meals. By filling your plate with plant foods instead of animal foods, you can help save the planet.
The production of animal products generates the majority of food-related greenhouse-gas emissions. The feed-related impacts of animal products also contribute to freshwater use and pressures on cropland, as well as nitrogen and phosphorus application, which over time could lead to dead zones in oceans, low-oxygen areas where few organisms can survive.
For an example of how animal foods compare with plant-based foods in terms of environmental effects, consider that “beef is more than 100 times as emissions-intensive as legumes. This is because a cow needs, on average, 10 kilograms of feed, often from grains, to grow 1 kilogram of body weight, and that feed will have required water, land and fertilizer inputs to grow. In addition, cows emit the potent greenhouse gas methane during digestion, which makes cows and other ruminants such as sheep especially high-emitting.
Adopting more plant-based diets for ourselves could reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the food system by more than half, according to the Nature study. A mainly plant-based diet could also reduce other environmental impacts, such as those from fertilizers, and save up to quarter use of both farmland and fresh water.
“Peaceable Kingdom”, Jenny Stein, director, 2009 doc film winner
Come join us in celebrating the 20thAnniversary season of the Moondance International Film Festival! AND take advantage of our exclusive $25 Early-bird discounted entry fee right now & until December 31st!
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Moondance now offers comprehensive, professional feedback by Hollywood readers for screenplays, teleplays, stage plays & treatments submitted to the 2019 competition. Select this unique option on the Moondance entry form!
Films submitted at the Moondance entry form, or at FilmFreeway may be submitted by the film’s director, producer, a lead actor, editor, film score composer or distributor, with permission of the director or distributor.
“I am looking forward to submitting to the Moondance Film Festival. I’m also looking forward to viewing the winning and selected films from the previous years. The festival looks amazing! Best Wishes!” ~ Amy Giaquinto, filmmaker
MOONDANCE WISHES YOU A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY TIME, AND A HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE, TOO, FROM BEAUTIFUL BOULDER, COLORADO!
Please note: The festival’s website server error on December 1st has been fixed, all page links are good, and we are looking forward to your submissions for 2019!
You can take advantage of our exclusive Early-bird discounted entry fee here!
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Moondance International Film Festival proudly accepts entries via FilmFreeway, the world’s #1 submission platform. FilmFreeway offers free HD screeners, unlimited video storage, filmmaker profiles, and more.
SPECIAL REMINDER: The 2019 Moondance will not have a theatrical venue this season. All winning & selected films will be screened only via our private viewing room site.
Moondance offers writers a professional screenplay, teleplay or stage play feedback option!
Moondance International Film Festival gladly accepts submissions via FilmFreeway, the world’s #1 film festival submission platform. FilmFreeway offers free HD screeners, unlimited video storage, filmmaker profiles, and more.
Please visit the MOONDANCE WEBSITE to watch the winning & selected 2018 & 2017 indie films from around the world, for free.
SPECIAL REMINDER:The 2019 Moondance will not have a theatrical venue this season. All winning & selected films will be screened only via our private viewing room site.
SOMETHING ELSE TO THINK ABOUT:
“Amelia” by S.K. V.
“Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.” ~ Aretha Franklin
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Festival founder presenting a screenwriting workshop
Read the entertainment industry articles on filmmaking, screenwriting, composing & arranging film scores, titles & loglines, how to get an agent, and much, much more, all written by professionals in the movie biz, exclusively for Moondancers!
Please visit the MOONDANCE WEBSITEto watch the winning & selected 2018 & 2017 indie films from around the world, for free.
Moondancers are part of an amazing worldwide community; a unique collaboration of multi-talented writers, film score composers and filmmakers. The Moondance mission is to entertain, inform, inspire, encourage and educate. We honor those artists who, through their creative work, actively increase awareness, provide multiple viewpoints, address complex social issues, and strengthen ties within the international community. At Moondance, artists can come together with other writers, composers, film directors and producers to create new opportunities, develop tools for success and forge new alliances within the international film and entertainment industry.
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The Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. We help people protect pollinators to ensure healthy ecosystems and food security. http://pollinator.org/roadsides
Pollinators are essential to our daily life. Imagine a cup without coffee, a garden without flowers, or a plate without food. With the decline of pollinators, our food and clean air is on the line. More than 200,000 species of pollinators are critical to the growth of our food supply, including all the plants we eat, fruits & meat products, dairy products & so on. Even the sugar we consume in almost everything depends on pollinators. Without them, we would go hungry & there would be no trees or plants to clean the air we breathe. More than 1,000 of all pollinators are vertebrates such as birds, bats, and small mammals. Most (more than 200,000 species) are beneficial insects such as flies, beetles, wasps, ants, butterflies, moths and, of course: bees.
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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“Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.” ~ Source Unknown
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Buffalo in Winter, photo by Ben Forbes for the WWF
“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” ~ Chief Crowfoot
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Seek beauty, truth, harmony…the promise of the future and the blessings of today. Live well, laugh often, love much, gain the respect & the love of children; fill your niche, accomplish your tasks; leave the world better than you found it. Appreciate Earth’s beauties & express it. Look for the best in others and give the best you have.
Please visit the MOONDANCE WEBSITE to watch the winning & selected 2018 & 2017 indie films from around the world, for free!
In our continuing success of promoting top-quality original filmmaking, writing and music composition by talented artists from around the world, the Moondance International Film Festival is very pleased to announce that our annualfestival competitions havebrought in great submissions, in all genres and categories, fromAustralia,Austria, Bangladesh,Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil,Bulgaria,Canada,Czech Republic,China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia,Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus,Dubai,Egypt, Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Iran,Iraq,Ireland, Israel, Italy,Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg,Malta, Marshall Islands,Mexico,Nepal,Netherlands, New Zealand,Peru,Poland,Russia,Serbia/Montenegro,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,South Africa,Spain, Switzerland, Tasmania, Turkey, UAR,Ukraine,the UK, the US,Venezuela, Wales, and more!
Please visit the Moondance website to watch the winning & selected 2018 & 2017 indie films from around the world, for free, and to order an award star, award certificate or download a laurel, if eligible!
Deadline for ordering award certificate is October 31st
Note on her certificate from one Moondancer:
“Thank you so much! I love the Moondance graphic art. It’s the best of all the festivals I’ve seen! So honored to be part of the lineup this year. Wishing you all the best and hope to meet you one day,” ~ Marianne Hettinger
* For those who have already placed an order, it will be on the way soon! Wait for it!
“Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope….not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” ~ Bradley Whitford
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“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“If you can dream it, you can create it! The best source of health, wealth, happiness, serenity, love and peace is to be found between one’s own ears!” Source obscure
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“The first step to get what you want is to get rid of what you don’t.” ~ Paulo Coelho
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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao Tzu
Remember to refresh the Moondance Home Page, when visiting!
Please visit the Moondance website to watch the winning & selected 2018 & 2017 indie films for free, and to order an award star, award certificate or download a laurel, if eligible!