Benny gives pitch at Airport City Haarlemmermeer

Benny gives pitch at Share in Airport City Haarlemmermeer
All media need to be sustainable special those that produce programs about sustainability. How can you make programs about sustainability while you studio is hooked up to a unsustainable power plant.

                                               

Share was this year located at Sugar City 

Share was this year located at Sugar City 

                                                         getting ready to give Pitch

                                   Pitching and interviewed by Rens de Jong RTL-Z and BNR

After Benny's pitch André van den Berg CCO Schiphol agrees that the media needs

 produce in a sustainable way and wonders why no one ever told him about PureMedia 

Students Geography from the University Victoria (Canada) visit the "set" of Pure Media

Benny Vink twenty students and two instructors 

In May 2017, twenty students and Dr. Cameron Owens
Associate Teaching Professor from the University of Victoria (Canada) set off on a travel study adventure. After a week in Victoria, they will travel from the Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic Northwest on a month-long itinerary from Paris to Copenhagen. En route, they will meet with city planners, designers, activists, community leaders, academics, and others grappling with the daunting social and ecological crises facing cities and ths week they visited   the "set" of Pure Media where in the last four years the documentary CityRoofTops was filmed.
Benny Vink was able to explain that all film and media need to shift to a more sustainable way of working and he showed how sustainable filming can be done with succes.
He also talked about the documentary CityRoofTops,GrowingHome and AChef'sHeart

Students relaxing on top of the Roof on Building B

GrowingHome Film recordings during volunteer week.

Growing Home is about the path that Sandra & Santi have taken and continue to walk. It is about where they come from and where they are walking to.  

Two passionate gardeners according to the permaculture principles, offer a holiday destination where you can sit back, relax, enjoy the countryside and feel at home and love food which comes straight from their garden or one of the local farms aroud. 

More about Growing Home at http://growinghomethefilm.blogspot.nl/

Hooking up a mic to Santie

Santie explanes his new aquaponics system to the voluteers

After two days film recording time for a break

Film recordings of our new documentary Growing Home

Growing Home is about the path that Sandra & have taken and continue to walk. It is about where they come from and where they are walking to.  

Two passionate gardeners according to the permaculture principles, offer a holiday destination where you can sit back, relax, enjoy the countryside and feel at home and love food which comes straight from their garden or one of the local farms aroud. 

waiting at 5.30 am for Jon I am just not a morning person

 Friday morning got up early 5.00 am waiting for ride with Jonathan Karpathios to Rotterdam airport. From there we go to Sandra & Santi 's   BB Simply Canvas in France to do some brainstorming  and film recordings for our new documentary Growing Home

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 After 1.5 houres flying we land in  Bergerac (Dordogne)  France where Sandra waits for us with a big smile and brings us to her BO in Bonac where we can stay in the white cottage.

The White Cottage I sleep downstairs Jon will try to sleep upstairs.

After putting my gear and baggage in the white cottages I took a peek at the schedule
wine tasting,locale market,fishing, snail hunting and again organic wine tasting looks like fun but first lunch

Cheese from raw milk tasted so much better.

sausage and meat from the locale frames market it

Sandra did an amazing job 

More about Growing Home can be foud at the blog of Growing Home