Greening Hollywood: 2011-01-09

Thursday

BBC Stages BMW Mini E to Scotland, Tesla Takes The Challenge

The BBC is well aware that David is on Brian’s tail. Actually, David appears to be well ahead of Brian, who is somewhere in southern Scotland.

Photos Courtesy David Peilow

The BBC is currently airing a four-day hit piece about EVs, using a BMW MiniE to drive from London to Edinburgh. The Beeb’s venerable technology correspondent Brian Milligan is on TV, online and tweeting about how onerous, time-consuming and inconvenient EVs are – the worries, the range anxiety, the moldy charging stations that haven’t seen any customers in three years. It focuses exclusively on BMW, and the imagery is pretty pathetic and the series has become quite controversial.

Electric vehicle company Tesla aimed to prove them wrong, with help from UK EV advocate and engineer David Peilow. In a 21^st century rendition of “David vs. Goliath” (or more appropriately, David vs. the BBC), the engineer hopped in a Roadster at Tesla’s London store on Wednesday morning and got to Edinburgh that night. Unlike the TV series, David accomplished the trip with no worries, no range anxiety, no drama. This may be the first time that an electric vehicle has driven from London to Edinburgh in a single day.

Upon his arrival last night, the first Tesla owner in Scotland was there to meet David.

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Wednesday

Bumble and Bumble's Doc on Vidal Sassoon

Directed by: Craig Teper

Produced by: Michael Gordon and Jackie Gilbert Bauer

A feature documentary spanning 80 years of revolution in culture, as told through the life of one extraordinary man, VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE is the revealing and inspirational story of how one man changed the world with a pair of scissors.

VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE is a true rags-to-riches tale, tracing Sassoon’s path from a London orphanage to international success and celebrity.

Producer Michael Gordon, founder of natural hair care company Bumble and Bumble, first set out to document Vidal's life in a richly visual book about icons in the world of hairdressing.

What started as an 80^th birthday tribute to Sassoon became a movie when Gordon brought on director Craig Teper. While chronicling the fashion, style and social revolutions of the 1960s, VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE shows how Sassoon revolutionized the world of hair with his pioneering, geometric, Bauhaus-inspired styles and “wash and wear” philosophy, literally changing the way women look and cut their hair today.

Phase 4 Films will release VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE in New York on February 11^th, 2011 and in Los Angeles on February 18^th, 2011.

Monday

Carbon Nation

"Here's a movie that doesn't even care if you believe in Climate Change...," that's the tagline for Carbon Nation, a new documentary slated for release in L.A. on February 18th.

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE

"I just want clean water and clean air. It's that simple," says a geothermal engineer.

"A full employment economy based on retrofitting the nation,"

"You don't have to believe in climate change or terrorism or any of that to want to drive a vehicle at 10% of the cost of what you're driving now."

"It's the most patriotic thing you can do, think or feel today. Green. It's the new red, white and blue."

Film is by Peter Byck.

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