2nd Annual Drug War Vigil Film Festival--- Call for Entries

[DrugWarVigil]

2nd Annual Drug War Vigil Film Festival
by the Drug War Vigil Memorial Group (14 Mar, 2003)

Entries must be registered by March 14, 2003



The Drug War Vigil Memorial Group is a social justice think tank that was founded in the fall of 2000. We are five medical cannabis users, dedicated to ending the War on Drugs. We as a group collectively recognize that the militarization of this medical issue and the criminalization of the chronically sick, terminally ill and chemically dependent has resulted in the needless loss of human life, and that this is the true crime.

We create and promote social justice journalism and the 2002 Cannabis Culture Toker's Bowl Drug War Vigil Film Festival was one such example. We are proud to announce the 2nd Annual Drug War Vigil Film Festival to be hosted again in May 2003. Our group is honored to be affiliated with this world-class event and thank Marc Emery for his extraordinary activism in action in support of this event.

Send us your films of 30 mins or less on any topic related to cannabis, drugs and the drug war. Submitted only in plain old VHS tape or Hi-8 or digital 8.

The films will be screened and judged by participants at the Cannabis Culture Toker's Bowl May 1-4 2003, in Vancouver, BC.

The film chosen for first place will receive a Grand Prize of $2000 US. Cash prizes totalling $2700 US will be awarded for the top four runner-up films. Other runners-up shown on pot-tv.net will receive honorariums of up to $250.00 US.

You must register your film for entry by March 14, 2003 to be eligible. We will need to receive the finished film by April 14, 2003.

For more information, email dwvinfo@netscape.net

Send your entry in to:

D.W.V. c/o BCMP Bookshop
307 W Hastings
Vancouver, B.C.
V6B 1H6
CANADA

[KraziHare]

As much as I wish I had a film to submit I don't, I do wish to support this in any way I can so I may think about making something, I have a few ideas in mind...
If anyone here wants to collaborate on something (basically just share ideas) I'd be happy to listen, I've been searching for a reason to be creative lately, this could be it.

...chemically dependent...

Though I don't think those words should be anywhere near 'marijuana', medical or not.

[DrugWarVigil]

Thanks for your reply, we would really appreciate motivated people like you to spread the word about the event, but even more now that we are getting a global response ( isn't the web wonderful) we would like to organize events in micro-cinema/theatres across Europe and anywhere else people would support this for 2004. We are also looking to work with aspiring film activists who would enjoy working with our material. We will need a real web page in 2004 or even after the hysteria subsides a bit after ther event. We were just recently covered by www.filmthreat.com in the festivals section. Stay in touch and if you are into building we want to build communication bridges and get the event available in locations where people will support it. Peace.