A gorgeous new film, Ghosts in Our Machine will have its New York and Los Angeles premieres on November 8 and November 15 respectively. I feel so honored to have been asked to moderate the Los Angeles November 15, Q&A with director Liz Marshall and photographer/protagonist Jo McArthur. There will be a red carpet and welcome with lots of our favorite actorvists at Beverly Hills Laemmle, and then an after-party at the fabulous new Sage Bistro and Beer Garden (vegan!) in Culver City. I sure would love to see some DawnWatch friends there and hope I am giving enough notice for those of you who sometimes like to come into LA for a weekend to do fun things. Re fun things: Ghosts in Our Machine isnt a barrel of laughs but nor is it gory and hard to watch. It is hauntingly beautiful. As actor James Cromwell has said, �This is a masterful film.� I think the tone is well summed up by this quote from Jo-anne, the protagonist: I truly believe that its innate, that we�re all compassionate and that if we�re given the opportunity to care, we will. The film follows Jo into some hellholes, but also to heavenly places such as New Yorks Farm Sanctuary and to the new homes of beagles who have been rescued from laboratories. We see that there is hope. Check out the trailer at vimeo/59741668 The Facebook page for the Los Angeles Nov 15 event is on line at https://facebook/events/338973532913478/ You can learn more there and invite friends. (New Yorkers check out https://facebook/events/399349070191858 ) And you can buy tickets (which are selling fast) at laemmle/films/37427#get-tickets I hope to see you at the Beverly Hills Laemmle, and raise a glass with you at Sage. Yours and the animals, Karen Dawn/Dawnwatch DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets. You can learn more about it, and sign up for alerts at DawnWatch. If you forward or reprint DawnWatch alerts please leave DawnWatch in the title and include these parenthesized tag lines. Please go to tinyurl/254ulkx to check out Karen Dawns book, Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals, which will give you background on any issue covered by DawnWatch. When it was first published in 2008 it was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the Best Books of The Year!
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:17:23 +0000
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