LakeFront Radio Interviews Irena Salina - Director of the Film FLOW (For Love of Water)

 

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We had a very enlightening interview with Irena Salina, Director of an upcoming Award Winning Film/Documentary called FLOW (For Love of Water) www.flowthefilm.com. It won the official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, The International Jury Prize at the Mumbai Film Festival, Best Human Interest Film at the 2008 Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival and Best 2008 Documentary at the Vail International Film Festival.

The film is set to be released on September 12th, 2008 in New York and will make its way across the country thru November. It will be right here in Atlanta on October 3rd at the Landmark Midtown Theatre.

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Films/films_frameset.asp?id=66587

If you have never been through a drought like the one we are in on Lake Lanier in Georgia, then you may not appreciate what a precious resource water is to all mankind. "This Film is passionate and compelling and its engaging narrative will grip you"....ROBERT REDFORD. www.flowthefilm.com/trailer  Check out the Trailer for this Film

Irena shocks us with some facts about water, pollution, supply, bottled water, the Amazon Forest, Lake Erie and where we are headed if we continue down the path we are on right now. Most all of us take water for granted, thinking it will always be here for us and nothing we really need to worry about. This could not be further from the REAL truth!

Irena tells us what motivated her to Direct this Film, her background in the Film Industry, her 5 year quest to put this film together and her passion about making life better for her children and future generations.

She talked about a great website www.foodandwaterwatch.org which has a wealth of information about food and water and is a non profit organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food.

Here is the one thing Irena wants everyone to know.....Water is very forgiving.....She notes that if everyone just in New York City gave up just one bottled water a WEEK (it takes oil to make these bottles by the way), we could save 24 million bottles a year going into land fills. 

**Take note of this statistic: It takes over 1.5 million barrels of OIL to make bottled water every year which would fill over 100,000 cars for the year. There are over 24 BILLION bottles going into landfills every year or 66 million bottles a day.

Some city mayors like San Francisco are taking this issue seriously and other countries are doing amazing things. But here in the USA we need to do much more. Europe bans the use of Atrizene a chemical that is harmful, but here in the USA it is still prevalent in the water that we are drinking. If politicians were really interested in keeping our water safe, they would ban this chemical and ban industry dumping chemicals into our waters.

You know how most of us think....What can I do, just one person, to make any real impact or change on the world as we know it....Conserving water is it! With very, very little effort, we CAN make a difference. Turning off that water while brushing your teeth or while lathering up in the shower, etc. along with low flow toilets can make a HUGE impact. Also catching and containing rain water in barrels or water tubes that are out now. Check out this website:

http://www.advancedcoastaltechnologies.com/watertube_prod.html

What Irena's Film is doing is planting the SEED of awareness and moving us to "Love Water Again". If we "Fall in Love with Water", we will seek to protect it... period!

Each and everyone of us CAN make a difference. So mark you calendars for the release of the Film nearest you. Here is the link to the release dates across the country. http://www.flowthefilm.com/theaters

We thank Irena for a great introspective look into our water crisis. We ask that as many people as possible see the film and start the discussion that is necessary to make a difference that will protect future generations to come. Let us leave a legacy that means something to our Children and Grandchildren.

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