GGM wins Spirit of Action award from Santa Cruz Film Fest

The Spirit of Action Prize is the Santa Cruz Film Festival’s signature award. It recognizes films that highlight challenges in our society and identify solutions. Awards are chosen by audience feedback scores. Your film REALLY encompassed what we were going for when we invented this award several years ago. Taking a bleak environmental disaster and creating a joyful and universal call to action is about as Spirit of Action as it gets.Elizabeth Gummere, President of the SCFF Board of Directors

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Santa Cruz Film Festival

Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story is opening the Santa Cruz Film Festival tonight at 7PM.  I’m hoping that everyone I know can come out and join us for a screening at the Del Mar and an after party at the Museum of Art and History. http://santacruz.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/goodbyegauleymountainanecosexuallovestory_bethstevens_santacruz2013

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Good Times, Greg Archer

Mountains Were Here TUESDAY, 05 NOVEMBER 2013 16:15 GREG ARCHER http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-news/good-times-cover-stories/5185-mountaintop-removal-.html

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Santa Cruz Sentinel, Kirby Scudder

‘Ecosexuals’ Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle explore mountaintop mining in new film ‘Goodbye Gauley Mountain’ http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/entertainment/ci_24422585/ecosexuals-beth-stephens-and-annie-sprinkle-explore-mountaintop

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Santa Cruz Film Festival

A miracle has happened!!  Annie and I get to stay at home in Santa Cruz, CA where Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story is the opening feature at the Santa Cruz Film Festival.   Your ticket will win you entry into a fabulous gala party at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Our film is screening at 7PM at the incredible Del Mar Theater in downtown Santa Cruz.  There is no place like home.  Not a bad birthday present.

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American Conservation Film Festival

For Halloween Annie and I are headed off to Shepherdstown, WV to present Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story at the American Conservation Film Festival. http://conservationfilm.org  While we are there are also going to attend the producer’s campus and learn more about film making. I didn’t know anything about it before I started this film and I sure wish I had. GGM will screen on October 31st in the Opera Theater at 9:30pm.  We hope you will join us to celebrate our film in my home state.

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Montreal International Festival of New Film

Next week Annie and I are headed off to Montreal to present Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story. It will screen twice while we are there. First on Friday 18 October  in the CINEPLEX ODÉON QUARTIER LATIN SALLE 17 @ 7.15pm and again in the same theater on Saturday 19 October – 1.00pm.  We love Montreal and are very excited that the film is playing in that fabulous city. Here is the festival website.  http://nouveaucinema.ca Have fun exploring and we hope you can join us.

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PREMIERE—Charleston, WV—August 17 at 7PM

Come join us at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Charleston, WV for the premiere of our new film, Goodbye Gauley Mountain—An Ecosexual Love Story. We’ll be serving cake and popcorn!! Admission is free. Many of the folks in the film will be at this premiere. We’ll even have a little red carpet for everyone to walk down. We are thrilled to host this event where Beth grew up in West Virginia.  It has been three years in the making and now we want to share it with our friends and colleagues in the place where the film was born.  Check out […]

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MICGénero México 2013

Goodbye Gauley Mountain is going to be in México City in August-September.  We’ll keep you updated as we get more information.  This years MICGénero is focusing on Ecofeminism.  Their website is beautiful and awful.  http://www.micgenero.com

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ArtCore Journal Review

Corinne Van Houten just wrote a wonderful review of Goodbye Gauley Mountain:An Ecosexual Love Story.  Here is the link.  ArtCore Review. Feel free to pass this around!

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Ecosex FF in Emmetrop, Bourges, France, July 5, 2013

We screened what will hopefully be our last sneak preview of Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story at Emmetrop’s fabulous theater space in Bourges, France. Isabelle Carlier and Nadège Piton created beautiful French subtitles. When I sent them the finished version of the film, sans my own subtitles, they will finish these subtitles and hopefully we can try to send the film around to European festivals. I’m going to LA as soon as I get home to make a few tweaks on thesound effects and then the film will be finished (famous last words). It seemed that most people really liked the […]

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Reina Sophia, Madrid, Spain May 25th

We presented another sneak preview of Goodbye Gauley Mountain at the Reina Sophia Museum in Madrid, Spain. This screening was in conjunction with Beatriz Preciado’s Somateca conference.  It was one of the most beautiful theaters I’ve ever seen.  The film looked great and was very well received, especially given that it was being shown to a non-english speaking audience, and without subtitles (although there was simultaneous translation).  Many people in the audience loved it and told me so afterwards.  The film is now very close to completion.  We simply need to clean up the sound mix a little and finish […]

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Kickstarter

Although we’ve now made our goal, new costs are already on the horizon, namely in the realms of marketing and distribution. Back this project through Kickstarter and gain our eternal gratitude and some cool rewards.

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Portland Queer Doc Fest Screening May 17th

We’ve been invited to our first official film festival!!  Join us in Portland, Oregon at the Queer Documentary Festival to see Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story on the silver screen. We’re very excited to experience our first public sneak preview of what will then be the FINISHED FILM!!  We hope you will join us there on May 17 at 7pm.  http://queerdocfest.org

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An Ecosexual CampOut – Redwood Resort – May 4th

The Ecosex Camp Out is a prescreening/fundraising event where we can share our film Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story and talk about mountain top removal with our neighbors and friends. Ecosex CampOut starts at 7Pm with a Potluck dinner. Then we’ll give a little talk at 8. We’ll screen the film at 8:30.  This event includes overnight camping at the Redwood Resort http://redwoodresort.net which is right across the street from us in Boulder Creek, CA.  We hope everyone will bring something for the potluck. We’ll provide music, and Annie and I will give a short lecture on ecosexuality and mountain top removal. Then we’ll screen the […]

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Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP)

We will be showing an almost finished version of Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story at 7pm on Monday April 22 at 7PM in UCSC’s Kresge Hall as part of ESLP’s  stimulating quarterly series of prestigious speakers on environmental issues.  http://eslp.enviroslug.org/speaker-series.html  ESLP is great student run cooperative group that is emblematic of UCSC student engagement with environmental issues.  I’m very honored to be showing the film there and to be speaking about mountain top removal.  Annie Sprinkle will be joining the discussion session before and afterward the screening too!

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Center for Sex and Culture Benefit

We had an amazing benefit at the Center for Sex and Culture.  Becka Shertzer, Chandra Gilbert made some absolutely divine food and Jennifer Jones, who has Eat My Love For You (eatmyloveforyou.com) made killer Mississippi Mud Cupcakes.  We could not have had better food.  My neighbor Rob Mokry played banjo with Andrea Savage and her girlfriend Anna Doty. Then Wildsang took the stage and played songs that honored the mountains and the Holly Near classic, “You can’t take my dreams away.” They were breath taking.Then we screened the film, and even though the sound track isn’t finished-everyone stayed in their […]

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