From the Raw Opium blog: "A major story-thread in the film focuses on Derek, an IV drug user on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the InSite clinic which has been so central to his life. So we expect a major topic of the chat will relate to last week's Supreme Court decision ordering the Conservative government to allow Insite to stay open."

Please join us!

Where: http://TVO.org/Rawopium
When: Oct. 5, 9 -10 p.m. EST

(Part 2: Oct. 12, 9 -10 p.m. EST)

Hello Cool World's campaign with Options For Sexual Health hits the airwaves! Watch for our ad featuring full frontal condom nudity on the late night time slots on CBC and Global starting today, Feb 21! It's also on our site: www.ThatsSoSexy.com 

We did it! We managed to survive our first decade as a company that only takes on work we love and causes we believe in!

We've been most famous for our work on The Corporation, but on our V-Day B-day as we are flirtingly calling it, we are highlighing a decade of sex work -- sexual health education that is sexy!

On Valentine's Day we are launching our newest campaign -- That's So Sexy, which includes 2 PSAs which will be on TV which we created in partnership with Opt. We've launched a website ThatsSoSexy.com that showcases all our sex ed projects, campaigns and clients.

Watch for our new ad on CBC and CTV in British Columbia.

We are on a mission to put sex in advertising where it belongs! Promoting safer sex in a way we think is going to be effective -- by making it sexy!

In February we started working on our Hello Cool World vision. One strong area we felt we wanted to work on was to really make our online store a successful way to raise money and a new model for funding the campaigning efforts of our friends. As our 'regulars' will know - with the makers of The Corporation film,we are working on building a movement to change the corporate form, funded by our online store. With The Corporation, however, we are still only re-sellers of the DVDS, which we have to buy from our distributors, which doesn't leave much for the campaign.

Screening at Vancity Theatre Tuesday, May 11 at 8:30 PM

If you love this universe — come out tonight to the Vancity Theatre in Vancouver! It's one of the new 'collection' from Mark Achbar of The Corporation. It's stunningly shot, extremely engaging and chillingly important. View the trailer here. Action & info links about space security below.

UPCOMING: The Corporation is screening at Toronto's Hot Docs in the "Ripping Reality" program, in the company of other such classics as Darwin's Nightmare, The Fog of War, and Iraq in Fragments.
Sunday, May 09, 2010 - 12:30 pm, Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue.

SOME ACHBAR EXEC PRODUCED FILMS COMING SOON TO DOXA IN VANCOUVER!   read on...

Now that the dust has settled on our LACE premiere, we want to offer congratulations to our friends at Chee Mamuk. They have every reason to celebtrate the good work they do, and now they have an award for it!

We're very excited here at Hello Cool World headquarters. Once again we are a community supporter of the Projecting Change Festival which starts on Earth Day, Thursday April 22. (Mention HelloCoolWorld to get a ticket discount!) And after a year of preparation, our newest campaign is launching. The LACE Campaign short video and PSA will be on the big screen of the Friday night film 7pm screening of "Chemerical" at Projecting Change (5th Avenue Cinema in Vancouver). Then we join Co-op Radio to celebrate three and half decades of community media in the W2 Storyeum space, 151 W. Cordova,  where we will get our LACE on and party with our own DJ Atef & Lady Ra. This party is a combined celebration of the LACE launch and Co-op Radio's 35th Anniversary and comes at the end of their annual fundraising drive.

by Katherine Dodds

Water has been an issue dear to my heart since we started the company 9 years ago. My mother always said, if you want to do one thing to decrease suffering in the world, make sure you give everyone, everywhere access to free, clean water.

Sadly, we've gone in the other direction.

We've polluted the last largest fresh water body on earth (The Great Lakes) and we are heading towards what many believe are the world water wars. And did you know that Nestle controls most of the world's bottled water?