Daryl Hannah Teams Up with Legacy to Engage Film Students in Socially Responsible Filmmaking
In an effort to protect youth from the negative impact of smoking in movies, Legacy, best known for its truth® youth smoking prevention campaign, is asking aspiring filmmakers to think twice before using cigarettes as props in film. With the help of actress and activist Daryl Hannah, Legacy developed a six-minute documentary titled Redefining Cool. The short film explores how movies have bee...
Daryl Hannah Teams Up with Legacy to Engage Film Students in Socially Responsible FilmmakingIn an effort to protect youth from the negative impact of smoking in movies, Legacy, best known for its truth® youth smoking prevention campaign, is asking aspiring filmmakers to think twice before using cigarettes as props in film. With the help of actress and activist Daryl Hannah, Legacy developed a six-minute documentary titled Redefining Cool. The short film explores how movies have been used to nor...
Writer/Director/Producer Alyssa Rallo Bennett of The Pack (2009) speaks about the film that is closest to her heart. The Pack raises the question of 2nd hand smoke and its fatal consequences. Being a hot debate, no doubt this film will raise questions and bring awareness to viewers worldwide. In a riveting scene of the film, a man throws a steak knife onto the table next to a 'pack' of cigarettes and at the top of his voice screams: 'Are you gonna tell me these are the same?' Well, ...
Pipe used to smoke tobacco; pipe used to smoke non-tobacco materials. THIS is the astonishing picture which could pay homage to hippies.Pipe by Manuel Seixas...
Article by Kaly Halkawt
NYU film student, Gabrielle Demeestere, who recently submitted her short The Last Cigarette to ÉCU 2010’s Non-European Dramatic Short category discusses the humorous side of smoking.
Q: Tell me briefly about your film?
The Last Cigarette is a short comedy I directed in my first year of graduate school at NYU film school. It tells the story of Lise, a French tourist, who finds herself alienated by her smoking habit in...
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The titles quickly fade up and extinguish, burning away like the tissued wrapping of a cigarette. The first image smashes like a thunderbolt upon the screen, a point of view shot from behind a cloth hood. We hear the slightest whispers of strained breaths as tribal drums pound furiously on the soundtrack.
Not even thirty seconds into Michael Mann's 1999 film "The Insider" and we're already suffocating.
The man behind the mask is Lowell Bergman, the venerable producer of "60...
