Solar World Cinema Goes Greener Drives Cleaner

The dutch solar cinema: CosyMo's Solar Cinema has been driving cleaner since last summer and is now also promoting driving on CNG (compressed natural gas)....CosyMo made a short video about this alternative petrol starring the dutch solar cinema.

@ Cinemalab/toulouse

Started the Cinemalab course in Toulouse...an interesting workshop enhancing the netwerk between European en Latin American partners. At the moment we are discussing the use of social media. With Solar World Cinema as a testcase....just finding out, that we need to use the social media better.....there is not enough talk about Solar World Cinema, the solar cinema or even me Maureen CosyMo Prins on the web.....so i will put more work into getting 'out there'! Hope you will see us more and soon! in the virtual air but also in the real air ofcourse! making the first show of the season!

Consorzio BIM Piave - Belluno - supported our European Solar Cinema tour 2010, the first edition of the travelling European Film Festival powered by solar power! Our programme Go Greener Shorts was supported and presented in the beautifull surroundings of Belluno/Agordo - Italy. In 2011 Solar World Cinema hopes to return for the second edition of this travelling sustainable film festival.

SOLAR SEASONAL GREETINGS

A really thick layer of snow is covering our solar panels on both Solar Cinema Vans. Does this mean: a nessecarry winterbreak? I guess this year yes, but looking at the snowy solar cinema's it recalled our trip to Romania for the Green Planet Blues Film Festival in Sinaia in januari last year!
Even in the snow we succeeded to make some shows and the solar power stored in the batteries was just, only just enough to do 5 shows. Great memories but at the same time feeling quite happy to put a focuss on 'warmer' places. At the moment our project in Latin America is taking shape: internationally we are working on our application for more funding for 'El Nino Solar' (working title)....its great to see the notifications on my dropbox windows when more files are added and other have been updated. Amazing international working flow. Simultanious to this project we are also starting to plan a new European tour....hopefully visiting: Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Italy, Kroatia....and maybe more places....Romania, Malta.....the season wont we long enough!
This year we hope to develop more video workshops so apart from promoting an distributing fresh, good and green films we actually hope to engage with young kids to make video's together and get an insight in to their world.
SOLAR SEASONAL GREETINGS TO ALL OF YOU and may 2011 be a sunny one!

Encuentro Puebla a success

The Solar Cinema team looks back on a successful meeting with 14 Latin American mobile cinema projects in Puebla, Mexico. From September 27-30 the organizations presented themselves to each other and worked intensely together for four days to work out a joint adventure: a mobile cinema network based on a collaboration between the different organizations in Latin America. The network will produce one or two solar powered mobile cinema's that will travel through the Latin American countries participating with an international film programme of Latin American films and educational projects.
During the meeting several work groups have been formed and they are at this moment working out the different plans and questions. We will keep you posted on developments!



The encuentro in Puebla has not been gone unnoticed in Latin America:
La Jornada Mexico, el día de la inauguración.

CNN en Español

Diario Cero . Argentina

Raíz Argentina - España

Radio Cine - Bolivia

El Clarin de Chile

Portal Noti Cine

Primer encuentro de cines moviles

El primer Encuentro Latinoamericano de Cines Móviles

The European tour of Solar World Cinema has only just ended, and already two Solar World Cinema crew members already traveled to Puebla, Mexico, to be part of an international meeting of Latin American mobile cinema project: El primer Encuentro Latinoamericano de Cines Móviles. Mobile cinema projects from many countries in Latin America (Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Brasil, Uruguay, Colombia) are present during the first edition of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Puebla, to present their projects, discuss problems that they encounter and talk about ways to work together. The goal of the meeting is to see if the Latin American mobile cinema organizations can join up together in one international Latin American mobile cinema project.
The meeting was initiated by La Cine a la intemperie.
Solar World Cinema was invited to the meeting as 'proyectos invitados' and hopes to be part of the collaboration by bringing in the possibilities of Solar power and sustainable driving possibilities in Latin American mobile cinema.

Solar World Cinema presented the plans for Latin America to the other projects. Part of their presentation a few video's were screened.





Other mobile Cinema organizations present at the meeting:
Mil Metros Bajo Tierra (Argentina)
Productora Medio y Medio (Uruguay)
El Cine Vino (Chile)
Cine Viagem Latino (Brasil)
Cine Bus, (Colombia )
Cine Portátil, Colectivo Lluvia y Agua (Venezuela)
Cineteca Itinerante (México)
Cine en el Campo (México)
Cine Móvil La Carreta (México)
Cine Ambulante, Gira de Documentales (México)

tour impression untill san servolo