Lots of good news around our upcoming release. For starters, this just in....

Nestle forced to pull out of McCloud CA contract to build a 1 million square foot bottling facility

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Hey World,

FLOW will be hitting US theaters end of summer! We're really excited to be working with Oscilloscope, a distribution company started by former ThinkFilm execs and Beastie Boy Adam Yauch. This is a GREAT partnership for us as filmmakers; the other great piece of news is that we'll be playing both the Democratic and Republican political conventions, the DNC in Denver and the RNC in Minneapolis! More on all of this soon.

BARCELONA --- Barcelona, one of the great European cities, suffers its worst drought since records began 60 years ago, Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital, has been the worst-hit region. After months without adequate rainfall its reservoirs are down to just over a quarter of normal capacity. On May 15, a tanker ship from Marseilles will pull into a specially equipped dock in Barcelona's busy port, connect to a new pipeline, and discharge a liquid cargo essential to the running of the city. The ship will not, however, be carrying oil or petroleum.

 Well, we've just heard back from the Vail International Film Festival, where FLOW won the top prize for Best Documentary.  We also won Best Human Interest Film at the Flagstaff Film Festival, and we're now closing in on theatrical distribution in the US. 

According to the Associated Press, a vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans.

Breaking  news:  FLOW: For Love of Water will be the closing night film at the Full Frame Festival at the beginning of April, and on top of that, we'll not only be playing the opening weekend of the San Francisco International Film Festival (end of April), but we're organizing a major water educational panel with the programmers at SFIFF that will have international water experts discussing water across a lot of territory. We'll get specific dates/times up as soon as we have them.  On we go! 

Steven 

FLOW: For Love Of Water came to Lincoln Center Tuesday night, the reaction was fantastic. Isa Cucinotta and the rest of the crew from the Film Society of Lincoln Center made us feel right at home, and almost all of the several hundred people who came stayed for the Q & A and the reception afterward. 

What follows is the interview Amy Goodman did with Maude Barlow for DemocracyNow! yesterday morning. Maude has a brand new book, Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.  

News Flash from Bombay– FLOW: For Love Of Water has won the International Jury Prize at the 2008 Mumbai Film Festival! 

From The MIFF Festival Website: 

Well, we're back from Sundance.

Our festival experience was truly unforgettable, one amazing moment after another. People came from everywhere to be part of our world premiere; the award for Those-That-Came-From-The-Furthest-Away surely goes to Christophe Julien and Pablo de Silva, our composer and cinematographer. They both flew in all the way from Paris.