Calling all Fans! Volunteer for the Campaign. #4Eva
Fans of 65_RedRoses — we need your help! We are gearing up the #4Eva campaign for organ donation and CF awareness for April and May. Can you help us spread the word and organize community screenings?
Email us at outreach@hellocoolworld.com if you’d like to help and we’ll be in touch shortly!
The new release of the film is available now in both the US and Canada for screenings, and will have it’s US broadcast premiere on OWN this spring. This new version, along with many extra features, will be available for sale in Canada in March for educational and home sales. Home pre-sales available now (Canada only). All our profits of sales of the film support this campaign. (more…)
Big Things Happening In 2012!
Happy New Year to all the supporters of 65_RedRoses, friends of Eva, and folks everywhere living with CF! 2011 was a wonderful year of sharing Eva’s story and raising awareness about organ donation, but we’re excited that 2012 will be even bigger. We launched our new site design last week, and we hope you like it.
We’re getting closer to announcing the date of the 65_RedRoses premiere on Oprah Winfrey Network, but we can tell you right now that it will be happening in the Spring! On the Hello Cool World store, Canadian supporters can pre-order the new version of the DVD (with an updated ending, French subtitles, and interviews with the directors), which will be released in February. You can also order other 65_RedRoses merchandise from the store. All proceeds go back into the campaign for the film and Eva’s movement for organ donation.
For American supporters, we know you are eager to see and share Eva’s story. While the DVD is not available for sale in the US yet, you can organize a community screening. Please contact us for details! And be sure to check back here, as well as Facebook and Twitter, because we’ll be sure to let you know as soon as the DVD is available in the US. For the fastest updates, sign up to our mail list! (more…)
T-shirts and pendants featuring Eva’s Heart – now available in the Hello Cool World store!
The photo collaboration between Eva and photographer Cyrus McEachern, featuring Eva’s spontaneous and beautiful heart design, has become an emblem of her spirit and legacy. It also inspired the photos of the Live Life, Pass It On campaign from BC Transplant, which features other recipients of organ donation. (more…)
BC Woman Embarks on Cross-Canada Tour
Kirstin Whitford launches 65_RedRoses, 65 Cities, 65 Days in memory of Eva and her late husband who both lost the battle to CF.
This past Saturday, August 20th Kristin Whitford of Powell River, B.C. commenced a cross-Canada road trip with a mission: to raise awareness about cystic fibrosis (CF) and the need for organ donation. (more…)
DVDs are IN!
Last Thursday was a pretty exciting day, we received the first batch of 65_RedRoses dvds!!! For people who pre-ordered the film in Canada and the US, dvds are now on their way to you! I wish Eva was here to see these – they’re real dvds with a proper case and everything! Now it feels like a real movie, I can hold it in my hands! We all worked so hard to get to this point.
I read all the comments that come in and Phil and I are really hoping that we can start sending copies overseas, we keep getting these lovely messages from people in the Netherlands and Peru and Australia. Eva had an international following and we want everyone to get to see the film that she spent the last three years of her life making and promoting. There are logistical issues right now but I think that in the next few months we should be able to figure out an affordable way to get them out there…
For the moment we are trying to share the film with our fellow Canadians. Last week I got an invitation from the law firm Hwang Company in New Westminster to come out to an event called Show & Shine and sell dvds. Michael Hwang is a lawyer and a great supporter of the arts (the world needs more people like him!) and his offices are currently displaying the original 65 Red Roses painting on their main wall. Show & Shine, for those of you who don’t live in New Westminster, is referred to as “the largest car show in the lower mainland.” It seemed liked a great chance to hand out organ donor cards and sell copies of the film, so on World Cup Sunday I piled boxes of dvds and donor cards into my car and headed to New West – with my aunt and mom coming along as volunteers.
New Westminster is Eva’s home town and her uncle owns a historic shoe store on the city’s main road so everywhere I looked there were prints of the 65 Red Roses paintings up in store windows. I got to see the painting for myself for the first time. There are no words to describe just how beautiful it is. They haven’t decided yet where it will end up, but I hope it is a children’s hospital in Canada. Eva’s mom was telling me that families spend a lot of time just waiting in the hospitals, so it would be amazing for them to have a painting this intricate and detailed to spend time appreciating. It’s true that every time you look at it you discover something new.
I handed out as many donor cards as I could and I’m happy to say that 2 people registered right in front of me to donate all their organs. Inside the offices where I had a display of the dvds dozens of people told me their stories about their experiences with transplant.. A lot of people who had never seen the film before picked up the dvd. It was a really great and successful event and I also got to see some pretty amazing cars!
The next stop for selling the film is going to be Vancouver’s Leisure Society where Eva spent a lot of time last summer raising money for CF and awareness for organ donation. We are self distributing the film in Canada so right now a large portion of what we’re making on the film is going straight back into keeping this movement running. I know we are just getting started.
Phil, the co-director of the film will be in attendance at the screening of 65_RedRoses in Toronto July 18th as a part of the BITE ME! Toronto International Body Image Film & Arts Festival. For more info please click here!
Love love love,
Mish
PS: Eva’s friend Ian Bevis is riding a tandem bike across Canada to raise money for CF!
DVD Pre-Sales Start Shipping This Week
We’ve got the DVD in our hot little hands and they start shipping to Canada this week. The US is not far behind!
Thanks to everyone who purchased a DVD & are helping support Eva’s movement for organ donation!
We’re now selling the DVD in Canada through HelloCoolWorld.com’s web store for $24.95. For now, it’s Canada only but this is only the beginning. We’d love to be able to sell it internationally but it’s a lot more complicated. Different regions use different formats, and we’d need a way to process and fulfill international orders. It’s definitely on our wish list though, and we’re exploring the options.
PREORDER 65_REDROSES DVD!
Thanks to the overwhelming response we received over the past few months we are now officially selling 65_RedRoses on DVD!!!
If you live in Canada or the US you can preorder a copy of 65_RedRoses online until June 21st for $19.99.
www.hellocoolstuff.com/catalog.cfm?view=CATALOG_DETAILS&category_id=10&product_id=171
Our wish is Eva’s wish – that her work on behalf of organ donation carry on so please help us spread the word about the film becoming available for the first time on DVD!
