Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fwd: Dancing Rabbit on TV - 30 Days

[Tree Bressen (tree]

Hi,

My friend Tony Sirna from Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Missouri recently 
sent out the following.
Morgan Spurlock, creator of the movie Supersize Me, has a new reality tv 
series coming out called "30 Days."  In each episode, people spend 30 days 
in a situation different than their normal life.  The show has filmed 6 
episodes for its first series, and the last episode is titled Off the Grid 
and is about two New Yorkers who try out living at the rural ecovillage.

Tony says:

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As some of you know there has been a film crew at Dancing Rabbit for the 
last month filming for a documentary/reality-TV show called 30 Days. The 
crew left yesterday and today they have put our episode's promo up on their 
website. I guess this means we can tell everyone about it now (we were 
supposed to keep it quiet during the filming). Our episode should air on 
July 20th on the FX cable network.

So check out:

http://fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/30days/main.html

Click skip intro (if you are in a hurry)
Hover over Episodes, and choose Off the Grid

We got along quite well with the subjects and crew and can only hope that 
the story editors at the network are kind to us. Wish us luck.

Feel free to tell your friends. Hopefully this will be good publicity for 
intentional community.

Thanks,
Tony
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Tony Sirna
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage: www.dancingrabbit.org
Intentional Communities: www.ic.org

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I talked with Tony about this yesterday, and it's unclear how much control 
Morgan Spurlock has over the editing, which is of course where most of the 
important choices about presentation are made.  So this might be a schlocky 
commercial thing, or it might be great, and we won't know until it airs.

Cheers,

--Tree

P.S. Any readers of this message who live in Eugene and have cable and are 
willing to have me over to your house on July 20th to watch this and/or 
tape it for me, can you please contact me?  Thanks!


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