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"Blue Gold : World Water Wars" is a wake-up call for public action. Share the film with everyone your know.

Audience reaction to "Blue Gold" has been great, and I am thrilled with the requests that come in to organize community screenings. The most incredible story to date is that of Martin Robertson of Ideas in Motion.

Martin approached me after the Toronto Planet in Focus screening and offered his help organizing world-wide free screenings of "Blue Gold". In the following four months, he organized 101 screenings in 37 countries.

Only after doing this did I learn that Martin is fighting serious cancer, making his willingness and eagerness to use his time to spread the film that much more meaningful. "The idea is to get the audiences caught up in the story, and then they'll look for means of doing something about it," says Robertson. Read more

"Blue Gold" YouTube Trailer. Copy and paste the code below to embed the video on your site.

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Advertise the film. Screen the film. Recommend the film to friends.

Join the film fan bases and email those with all your friends.

Take Action:

  1. Join the Facebook Page.
  2. Join the newsletter for updates on the film and water news.
  3. Join the Shop PBS Blue Gold Twitter feed.

Organize your own neighborhood screening.

 

Take Action:

  1. Contact the filmmaker for permission to screen any time you wish to charge admission to the audience. Otherwise you have permission to screen free admission screenings in your neighborhood. We'd be happy to post your screening on our site if you let us know the details.

 

160x300 Banner. More banners here.

Buy a DVD and donate it to your library.

 

 

 

Take Action:

  1. Call your library, ask if they have the film. If they don't, offer to donate a copy to them.
  2. Ask your library to host a free community screening of the film.

 

Buy a DVD and donate it to your school.

 

 

Take Action:

  1. Call your school or your child's school, ask if they have the film. If they don't, offer to donate a copy to them.
  2. Ask your library to host a free community screening of the film.

 

Advertise the film.

 

 

Take Action:

  1. If you have a web site, embed banners (right) and link to www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com Or embed Mp4 trailers in 720x380 and 425x250 formats.
  2. Embed the YouTube trailer and Deleted Scenes on your site. Links to the code for each are;
    1. Trailer
    2. Global Blue Alternative
    3. Mexican Caravans
    4. Michigan Trial
    5. Water Quotes
    6. More Water Wars
    7. Vandana Shiva vs. Coca Cola
  3. Donate to the filmmakers for further marketing of the film.
  4. If you are on Facebook, go to the Blue Gold page and use the Share with Friends link on the top left to spread the word to your Facebook contact list.
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