Iraqi Kurdistan Film Screening in NY

The Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook will be screening Saturday, July 21st at 4pm on screen 7 in NYC as part of the NY Film and Video Festival.

The screening will take place at Village East Cinemas, located at 181 2nd Avenue (at 12th Street) in Manhattan's East Village.

For tickets and other useful information, visit the website at:

NY Film Festival

Black Gold Story Inspired This on You Tube

I just received this email from someone in Austria, in response to my story about oil and conflict in the Niger Delta that appeared in the February 2007 issue of National Geographic. Here is another example of how the world is getting smaller and how we can inspire change that can spiral into a larger movement of consciousness.

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Hello There,

The article you made about the oil crisis in Nigeria inspired me to make a small animation about the situation there.
I tried to explain a complicated global problem in a very simple way. If you are curious about it, you can watch it on the following link:
Oil Crisis on YouTube
thank you for the inspiration and keep up the good work.

Best regards,

Tom Vens
Space & Design strategies
University of arts Linz