FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Coming soon to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Seattle.
Over 200 global community screenings in 25 countries and growing!

Featuring interviews with
NAOMI KLEIN, JEREMY RIFKIN, CHARLES EISENSTEIN, BILL MCKIBBEN and others!

New York, N.Y. – Fierce Love Films announces the US theatrical premiere and online launch of Occupy Love starting Friday, May 3, 2013 in New York City with screenings to follow in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Seattle. A feature documentary from award-winning director Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred, Fierce Light), Occupy Love explores the cultural uprisings of our time from the Occupy Movement and Arab Spring to the European Summer and environmental protests and asks the question, “How could the crisis we are facing become a love story?”.

“Occupy Love is the culmination of a twelve year journey that is both very personal and very universal,” says director Velcrow Ripper. “It’s easy to lose hope in a world where economies are crashing and ecologies collapsing, but as I’ve witnessed over and over, the most inspiring acts of human compassion and connection can emerge from the darkest of times.”

Occupy Love marks the completion of Ripper’s Fierce Love Trilogy, which began with Scared Sacred, named one of Canada’s Top 10 movies of 2004, and winner of the 2005 Genie (Canadian Academy Award) for best feature documentary. It continued with 2008′s award winning Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action.

The film’s message is resonating around the world, with over 200 grassroots screenings currently being self-organized by individuals and organizations in over 25 countries, and more being added every day. The largest community screening to date took place in Porto Allegre, Brazil on April 11th attracting over 1,500 attendees. The tipping point is near.

Occupy Love features interviews from leading visionaries on alternative systems of economics, sustainability, and social organization including Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Jeremy Rifkin, bell hooks and Charles Eisenstein.

A moving, transformative, heartfelt film, featuring Ripper’s signature stunning visuals and rich soundscapes, Occupy Love is a powerful cinematic experience that will leave audiences inspired.

US THEATRICAL TOUR launches Friday, May 3, 2013 in New York City with a week-long engagement at Cinema Village. Screenings to follow in Los Angeles (May 7, Laemmle Royal), San Francisco (May 8, AMC Van Ness 14), Santa Cruz (May 11, Rio Theatre), and Seattle (May 12, SIFF Cinema). Filmmaker discussions and special events taking place in each city: http://occupylove.org/theatrical-tour-filmmakers/

CANADIAN THEATRICAL PREMIERE starting in June, 2013.

CANADIAN BROADCAST PREMIERE THIS SUMMER ON SUPER CHANNEL, a key partner in the production of Occupy Love.

AVAILABLE ON DVD and ON-LINE starting May 3rd in the US and internationally (excluding Canada) via OccupyLove.com and most major platforms including iTunes, Amazon.com and cable Video-On-Demand (VOD).

AROUND THE WORLD community screenings are taking place in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Liberia, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Spain, Scotland, Sweden, South Africa, Turkey, USA and more! This crowd sourced, social media driven approach to distribution is consistent with the theme of the film, which was partially funded through the crowd-funding platforms IndieGoGo and Kickstarter.

FOUND LOVE MOBILE APP LAUNCHES MAY 3RD. A free global photo sharing application and web gallery that focuses on capturing and geo-tagging “found” heart images with moods and stories that describe love and interdependence. A collaboration between One Net Marketing, Fierce Love Films, Canada Media Fund, and Super Channel www.foundlove.com

Occupy Love is directed by VELCROW RIPPER. Produced by NOVA AMI, IAN MACKENZIE and VELCROW RIPPER. Executive Producers BETSY CARSON, CATHERINE TAIT & GREGG HILL.

A Community Funded Film, produced in association with SuperChannel and the Canadian Media Fund.

For more information and a full list of screenings, visit: OccupyLove.com

Facebook.com/occupylovefilm

Twitter @OccupyLoveFilm

About Fierce Love Films

Fierce Love Films is committed to changing the world through cutting-edge feature documentary films that inspire personal and global revolutions. We produce films that entertain, enlighten and offer transformative perspectives on the world we live in through effective and innovative methods of storytelling. We believe in reaching the widest audience possible, and release our films with a powerful combination of traditional film marketing and the latest social networking tools, transforming movies into movements.

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PRESS CONTACT:

Colette Gunson | Hello Cool World
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GLOBAL COMMUNITY SCREENING LAUNCH OF OCCUPY LOVE

The inspiring film that illuminates and connects today’s global uprisings

Beginning April 11th 2013

In Theatres Starting New York City May 3rd

VOD/DVD/Online Starting May 3rd

http://www.occupylove.org

All over the world – Fierce Love Films announces the Global Community Screening launch of Occupy Love, a feature documentary from award-winning director Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred, Fierce Light) that connects the dots in this era of rapidly evolving social change and global crisis.

Community screenings begin April 11th around the world, including multiple cities in Australia, Brazil, Chile,  New Zealand, England, Germany,  Turkey, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Scotland,  across the U.S. and Canada, with new screenings being added every day. This crowd sourced, social media driven approach to distribution is consistent with the theme of the film, which was also partially crowd funded through IndieGoGo and Kickstarter.

FIND A SCREENING OR HOST A SCREENING!  http://occupylove.org/screenings/

Synopsis

A profound shift is taking place: humanity is waking up to the fact that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. Join Velcrow on a journey deep inside the revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet, as he asks the question, “How could the crisis we are facing become a love story?”

Featuring captivating insider scenes from the Egyptian Revolution, the Indignado uprising in Spain, Occupy Wall Street in New York, Indigenous activists at the Alberta Tar Sands, the climate justice movement, and beyond, Occupy Love shows that love can unite as much as greed can divide.

Occupy Love is the culmination of Ripper’s Fierce Love Trilogy which began with Scared Sacred, named one of Canada’s Top 10 movies of 2004, and winner of the 2005 Genie (Canadian Academy Award) for best feature documentary. It continued with 2008′s award winning Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action.

“Occupy Love is the movie I have been waiting to make, all my life,” says director Velcrow Ripper. “Today’s global awakening is what my earlier films have been anticipating and fostering – a current of potential that was pulsing and rumbling just below the surface. As the popular Occupy sign reads, The Beginning is Here.”

Featuring interviews from some of the world’s leading visionaries on alternative systems of economics, sustainability, and social organization, including Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Jeremy Rifkin, bell hooks, Charles Eisenstein.  For a full list of the visionaries visit http://occupylove.org/visionaries/

Occupy Love is a moving, transformative, heartfelt film, featuring Ripper’s signature stunning visuals and rich soundscapes.  A powerful cinematic experience that will leave audiences inspired.

FOUND LOVE MOBILE APP A free global photo sharing application and web gallery that focuses on capturing and geo-tagging “found” heart images with moods and stories that describe love and interdependence. A collaboration between One Net Marketing, Fierce Love Films, Canada Media Fund, and Super Channel http://occupylove.org/found-love/

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THEATRICAL RELEASE AND ONLINE LAUNCH MAY 3RD

Occupy Loves opens in New York City with an exclusive engagement at Cinema Village Friday, May 3 – Thursday, May 9, 2013. Events and discussions with directors, producers and cast to follow all weekend screenings.

NYC Premiere Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/129706643883431/

LA Premiere TUGG page : http://www.tugg.com/events/3540

Additional theatrical screenings to follow in Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, London, Dublin, Belfast, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin and more. Canadian Theatrical release begins in May 27, 2013 in theatres across Canada.

Occupy Love opens in Japan August, 2013 via United People Corporation

 ONLINE , VOD AND DVD RELEASE RELEASE MAY 3rd

Occupy Love  will be available on DVD and on-line in the via OccupyLove.com and most major platforms starting May 3^rd in the US and internationally, The film will be available via DVD and download in Canada.

BROADCAST PREMIERE  THIS  SUMMER IN CANADA on SUPER CHANNEL, a key partner in the production of Occupy Love   http://www.superchannel.ca/

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PRESS KIT HERE http://occupylove.org/articles/

TRAILER AND MORE INFO: www.occupylove.org

Occupy Love is directed by VELCROW RIPPER. Produced by NOVA AMI, IAN MACKENZIE and VELCROW RIPPER. Executive Producers BETSY CARSON, CATHERINE TAIT & GREGG HILL.

A Community Funded Film, produced in association with SuperChannel and the Canada Media Fund.

For more information, visit: OccupyLove.com

Facebook.com/occupylovefilm

Twitter @OccupyLoveFilm  #OCCUPYLOVE

About Fierce Love Films

Fierce Love Films is committed to changing the world through cutting-edge feature documentary films that inspire personal and global revolutions. We produce films that entertain, enlighten and offer transformative perspectives on the world we live in through effective and innovative methods of storytelling.  We believe in reaching the widest audience possible, and release our films with a powerful combination of traditional film marketing and the latest social networking tools, transforming movies into movements.

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PRESS CONTACTS:

Colette Gunson | Hello Cool World

C. +1 778-228-6779 | E. colette@hellocoolworld.com

www.HelloCoolWorld.com | @hellocoolworld

Katherine Dodds | Hello Cool World

O. +1 604-251-5673 | C. +1 604-722-3004

kdodds@hellocoolworld.com | @katatcoolworld

www.HelloCoolWorld.com | @hellocoolworld

From the “Heart of it All” interview description:

Everyone is concerned about economics and right relationship to money, it sits at the center of our personal lives and our culture. All we have to do is look around us at the economic crisis to know that the old systems are collapsing. But what are the new ones that are coming in.

On this week’s show, we want to explore the idea of Sacred Economics, the New Economy of Love, the Gift Economy, and how we can enable our dreams, projects and visions to become reality through creative crowd-funding.

We’ll be diving into these juicy topics with our special guest Ian MacKenzie. Ian is a new media producer based in Vancouver, BC. He has a background in video journalism, short films, and documentaries, with his work appearing in The New York Times, National Geographic TV, CBC Documentary, The Globe and Mail, Adbusters, and festivals around the world.

He is currently co-producing Velcrow Ripper’s upcoming film Occupy Love. Ian’s short film The Revolution Is Love was named one of the top 10 Occupy films to watch 2011. His most recent short is Sacred Economics. He now consults and offers workshops in crowd-funding which he describers as one of the key pillars of our emerging social and economic paradigm.

All of these topics weave together and we’ll be exploring the synergies between them and helping us see how we can reinvent and reimagine our world through our relationship with giving, receiving, new currencies and tapping into a culture of generosity.

The global revolution continues to unfold, in beautiful, heartbreaking, and surprising ways. As we recognized early on in this continual expression, it dances, evolves, regroups, and ultimately reaches for the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible.

We have 3 exciting new things to share with you:

The official Occupy Love trailer – please share this far and wide! It contains the seeds of our message of hope, love and possibility – of a global revolution of the heart:

Direct link to trailer on Youtube

This marks the beginning of our build up to our Global Community Screening Launch, beginning April 11th, when we Occupy the planet, with love! If you want to bring Occupy Love to your town, anywhere in the world, please follow this link to learn how:

How to Host a Screening of Occupy Love

Check it out! We have a brand new website, which will continue to blossom as we go along, so keep coming back.

We can’t wait to share Occupy Love with you. Thank you for being part of this journey!

Love,
Nova, Ian and Velcrow
Producers, Occupy Love

Ted Actee is an occupier at Occupy Wall Street.

Josh Broulet was an occupier at Occupy Wall Street.

Don Tapscott is a Canadian visionary, communicator, consultant, entrepreneur, cyber-guru and a leading authority on innovation in business management, media and technology. He has introduced pioneering concepts for three decades, reliably identifying imperatives and strategies needed in increasingly changing and challenging landscapes. Don’s expertise ranges from big-picture perspectives on technology, business, and society to practical applications of new developments in IT and open city design.

After focusing on psychology, statistics and education in university, Don studied and envisioned the Internet before it existed in the 1970s as part of a research project exploring what might come about if people had their own personal computers and connected them to a vast network of information. He has long described the Web as the first global platform for collaboration in history. Confident about the new generation’s digital ease and the transformational power of the Internet, he sees our era as one of significant opportunity for reinvention and greater integrity, transparency and empowerment, and travels the world to spread enthusiasm about our new digital ecosystem, emerging networked economy, self-organized connected communities and the massive collective force of open source sharing and social media.

Tapscott has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books, introducing concepts such as ‘the Net Generation,’ the ‘digital divide’ and ‘the business web.’ His books include Paradigm Shift;  The Digital Economy;  Growing Up Digital;  Digital Capital;  Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, which was translated into over 25 languages; and Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business, described by Huffington Post as “nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world.” His newest title is an eBook called Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success, based on his 2012 TEDGlobal talk.

Described as insightful, charismatic and inspiring, Don Tapscott has delivered hundreds of keynotes and presentations around the world. Along with a team of experts within The Tapscott Group, he offers advisory services to businesses and government leaders. He is a frequent writer for The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business 2.0, The Financial Times and USA Today. He has been interviewed and quoted widely in the broadcast media, including on CNN, NBC, CBS, NPR, and the BBC. He was the host of ReCivilization on CBC Radio, a five part series exploring how we may address global challenges by way of digital innovation in various fields.

In 2011, Don was named one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. He is an Adjunct Professor of Management for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and Trent University’s newly appointed chancellor. He is Chairman of the innovation think tank Moxie Insight, where he directs research and education programs, and a fellow of the World Economic Forum.

According to Tapscott, the global economic crisis we face is a wakeup call to mend our broken world, and requires the reinvention of our institutions and the creation of a new operating model — one based on transparency, global governance, and the sharing of intellectual property.

In his spare time Don is part of a dance music band that plays for fund-raising and charity events, called Men in Suits.

Visit his website:
http://dontapscott.com/

Books by Don Tapscott:
http://dontapscott.com/books/

On Macrowikinomics and murmuration  (4 min)

Four Principles for the Open World  (TEDGlobal, 17 min)

Solving the World’s Problems Differently  (RSA, 19 min)

Interview: Don Tapscott Revealed  (20 min)

Soapbox with Don Tapscott  (George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, 2 min)

Jeremy Rifkin is an American economist, author, public speaker, social critic, political adviser and activist. Described as a social and ethical prophet, he has been influential in shaping public policies in the United States and abroad, and is the main architect of the European Union’s Third Industrial Revolution long-term economic sustainability plan. He works with cities and governments planning transitions into post-carbon infrastructures and advises heads of states around the world on issues related to the economy, climate change and security. According to the The European Energy Review, “perhaps no other thinker has had more influence on the EU’s ambitious climate and energy policy than the famous American ‘visionary’ Jeremy Rifkin.”

The son of a plastic-bag manufacturer, Rifkin had an epiphany in 1966 as he walked past a group of students protesting the Vietnam War and witnessed his frat friends beating them up. He organized a freedom-of-speech rally the next day, thus becoming a lifelong member of the peace movement. In 1973 he organized a mass-protest against oil companies which was joined by thousands; in 1988 he brought climate scientists and environmental activists from 35 nations together for the first Global Greenhouse Network meeting in Washington; he launched the Beyond Beef Campaign in 1992 to reduce methane emissions generated by beef consumption; and he participated in founding the Green Hydrogen Coalition, committed to building a renewable hydrogen based economy.

Mr. Rifkin is the president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, which he co-founded with Ted Howard in 1977. Examining the impacts of new economic trends on the environment, the economy, culture and society, FOET engages in litigation, public education, coalition building and grassroots organizing activities. Rifkin is also the founder and Chairperson of the Third Industrial Revolution Global CEO Business Roundtable, composed of 100 corporations committed to addressing global economic and environmental challenges.

Over the last four decades Jeremy Rifkin has authored 19 books on scientific and technological evolution, global economic trends, and sustainable development, many of which have been bestsellers, translated into multiple languages, and used in universities, corporations and government agencies around the world. Titles include The Third Industrial Revolution;  The Empathic Civilization;  The Hydrogen Economy;  The European Dream;  The End of Work; and The Age of Access.  His monthly column on global issues appears in some of the world’s leading publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Utne Reader, The Guardian, Financial Times, Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur, L’Espresso, La Repubblica, El Mundo, Kathimerini, and Clarín. He has appeared on 20/20, Larry King Live, Face The Nation, Today, and Good Morning America.

Mr. Rifkin has testified before congressional committees and has consistently contributed to the creation of responsible policies on a variety of environmental, scientific and technology related issues. In the past 30 years he has lectured at hundreds of the world’s leading corporations and in over 200 universities in some 30 countries. Holding a degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and another in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, he has been a senior lecturer at the Wharton School’s Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

According to Rifkin, the industrial era powered by oil and fossil fuel is spiraling to its end and humanity is on the cusp of its greatest experiment to date. Envisioning a powerful ‘Third Industrial Revolution’ brought on by the merging of Internet technology, renewable energy and collective empathy, he predicts we may soon not only be producing green energy in our homes, workplaces and factories, but be able to store and share it with each other too. Says Rifkin, “a younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.”

Visit the Foundation on Economic Trends website:
http://www.foet.org/

Visit the Third Industrial Revolution website:
http://www.thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/

Jeremy Rifkin on Occupy (14 min)

The Empathic Civilisation (RSA Animate, 10 min)

Leading the way to the third industrial revolution (TEDxBrainport 2012, 11 min)