What's Organic About Organic?

This weekend is our final stop on our mini-tour of Florida and we’ve got lots of fun stuff planned…

On Saturday, Director/Producer Shelley Rogers and Co-producer Marty Mesh will be at the Florida Film Festival at the beautiful Enzian Theater located at 1300 South Orlando Avenue in Maitland, FL! WOAO? will screen at 3:30 pm to kick of their opening weekend—get your tickets here. Local food alliance organization, Ourlando, will be hosting a free Farm to Table event from 2-6 pm in honor of good food and film in front of the theater!

Then, from 8-10 pm we’ll have a post-screening “Chew & Brew Benefit” for Florida Organic Growers at Orland Brewing with lots of fun raffle prizes. The Brewery is located at 1301 Atlanta Avenue in Orlando. Marty and Shelley will be there sharing delicious eats compliments of local, organic restaurant Dandelion CommuniTea Café and, of course, drinking organic beer! A portion of the evenings proceeds will be donated to FOG! Check out our Facebook event page here : )

Stop on by for a brew and a chew—we’ll be selling and signing copies of the DVD for the first time EVER! Raffle prizes will include membership to the local Homegrown Co-op, gift certificates to Dandelion CommuniTea Café, organic cottow T-shirts and organic oranges from Uncle Matt’s, plus WOAO? DVDs!!

And for those of you in NYC, get ready for the June WOAO? premiere! In the meantime, please check out our friends who made FRESH… They’re launching in theaters this weekend across the country and have all sorts of great events to go along with it. Their efforts inspire us!

Hope you can make it to support good food and film!

The cold may have touched almost every state of the Union, but the South still radiates a warm welcome… And what better way to feel welcomed then to have WOAO? selected to screen at two film festivals.

The first festival was this weekend at the Magnolia Film Festival in Starksville, MS. WOAO? kept the food conversation going as Saturday night’s feature film.

The second festival will take place in none other then the sunshine state itself at the Florida Film Festival in Maitland, Fl on April 10th. WOAO? was selected to kick off the Food Focused Film weekend! As always, if you’re in the area stop on by it should be a great time.

And while the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival has come and gone, we still have a lasting impression of the warmth and fun we had there, plus a fun interview to snack on! Check out the interview from See Jane Do with Shelley and WOAO?’s very own Marty Mesh! Hear what inspired Shelley to make WOAO?, Marty’s thoughts on the future of organic growing and their comments on natural vs organic: http://www.livestream.com/cognizantproductions/video?clipId=flv_0cb26468-a5f5-4ae4-8c64-e593ab9c9983

And speaking of some tasty multi-media press, tune in to Heritage Radio Network at 1 pm today to hear Shelley joining Hungry Filmmaker’s co-curator, Cathy Erway, on her show, Let’s Eat In. Ana Joanes, director of FRESH, will be there as well, so we’re excited to start talking about eating food, having babies, writing books, and making films as we gear up for the 2nd Installment of Hungry Filmmakers this Tuesday, February 23rd! If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, get one soon: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/93405 And check out our listing in the NY Times Dining Calendar!

Plus, DVDs will be out to manufacture soon and WOAO? website is being updated, dandified & expanded as we speak! Check back soon for more features…

OH, and very important–the comment period has been extended to March 3rd regarding Genetically Engineered Crop contamination, so DON’T FORGET to tell USDA to keep GE Alfafa OUT of our food system! Here’s the True Food Network’s easy Action Page: http://ga3.org/campaign/alfalfaEIS?rk=V1WKc_9aH2M2E

Enjoy!

Shelley and the WOAO? team