The Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival is not a film festival that I know much about. I only read about it from another blog that talked about the film, A Blooming Business (official site), which caught my eye. I enjoy flowers. I'm not a fan of gardening, myself, but I really appreciate other people's gardens. I also like fresh-cut flowers. A lot. If I'm invited to someone's place and there is a lady of the house, I will usually bring her some flowers. I want to spread the flower love.
Anyway, I'm tempted to see the film, but also worried that it will ruin flowers for me. I mean, that may not be a bad thing if the places I buy my flowers from gets them from horrible places...it's similar to movies which turn you off of fast food, animal products, meat, clothing brands, etc. Yes, it's important to be educated about these kinds of things, but sometimes the people behind things like this become preachy and very biased and I'm not into that. It raises awareness, and being more educated is always a good thing. Whether or not I do anything about it, well, we'll see.
I remember doing a project about apples in elementary school and after reading about the pesticides that were used I stopped eating apples for awhile. I like to think I've grown a little since then.
I'm sure sure if I'll get a chance to see the film, but maybe this is a festival that I should keep on my radar.
3 comments:
I think it's really awesome you bring flowers. When I lived at home, if we ever visited anyone's house, we would always take flowers. I'm not sure if it's a persian tradition or something my family just did (because my dad also likes flowers/gardening). I was thinking of starting the tradition again, but I don't want to copy you! (BTW, the sunflowers you got us are only starting to die now! and the dried leaves are so beautiful. I was going to keep them and use them in a card I'm making for my brother/sister-in-law)
No no, copy away. The more flower love, the merrier!
Did your sunflowers retain the red colour this whole time? I wondered after seeing the water turn pink.
Yep. They're still red.
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