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Public Viewing
Eating may
be shown publicly to audiences of any size, including
broadcast audiences, for non-profit educational purposes.
In fact, we encourage those who have seen the film to approach their public access,
PBS or other television stations and ask them to show it. Eating is currently being
shown on many stations throughout the country.
Eating may NOT be shown over
the Internet or within intranets.
Eating may be
shown in whole or in part, but may not be duplicated in whole or in part, edited,
transformed, altered, built upon or made part of another
presentation, without the express written permission of the copyright holder.
Eating is
copyrighted and not in the public domain. For more information,
click here.
Healing Cancer From Inside Out may be shown publicly to live, non-broadcast,
audiences of any size. Due to agreements we have with distributors, it may not
be shown to broadcast audiences without prior written consent from us. It may
not be shown over the Internet or within internets. Healing Cancer
may not be duplicated in whole or in part, edited,
transformed, altered, built upon or made part of another presentation, without
the express written permission from us. You
may email us if you have a question.
Flyers
If you are showing Eating
or Healing Cancer at a
public forum, you can download our flyers, which
are in .PDF format.
Download the Eating flyer (1 MB) by
clicking
here.
Download the Healing Cancer flyer (7 MB) by
clicking
here.
For PC users, right-click and choose 'Save Target As' to save
it to your hard disk. If you have an Adobe Acrobat Editor, you can fill in your
meeting information in the bottom box that is blank. Otherwise, you can write it
in.
Reactions
This is part of an email we
received which describes a showing of Eating, which may be helpful to those
wanting to put on a show.
"WOW! It was unbelievable! We
had over 100 people show up to our fundraiser. After the film was over, about 30
people stayed around and talked and asked questions and ate free samples of fake
meats and soy/ice/almond milks, etc...that had been donated by our local grocery
stores. Before the movie, I decided not to put out handouts and books. I did it
during the film, so that when people came out, they came on to the resource
table where we had our cook books and our table full of free literature. There
was SO MUCH excitement and energy in the theater lobby area. It felt like we
changed a lot of lives and a lot of diets. It was enormously successful. Andy
helped me and my students set up and break down, and he was also very engaged in
talking to people and answering questions. He thought it was incredible! It is a
great film to see on a big screen."
Why Isn't Eating on YouTube?
There are many reasons, but the number
one reason is that the internet is an extremely poor method of conveying
this message when the normal attention-span of internet users is about
five minutes. In fact, pirated copies of the film were on YouTube and
Google for over six months. When we
looked at the statistics, we saw there was not a big volume of viewers
looking at the first segment of the film in the first place. Then there
was a radical drop-off of viewing with each successive segment, which
only confirmed the attention-span problem.
Margaret Mead has said "It's easier to
change a man's religion than his diet." In other words, this is a very
difficult message to get across and we need the full attention of an
audience. The internet simply does not provide that.
As stated at the top of this page, we allow people to
screen Eating, free of charge, and that includes broadcast television.
Eating has been shown in literally hundreds of small viewing rooms,
hundreds of theaters and hundreds of public access stations across the
country and throughout the world. We allow this because these are the
best and most effective venues for this message. It takes work to spread
the message and persuade people to change their eating habits. If you
really want to help get this message out, invest some of your own time
and put together a screening or show it on your local public access
station.
Another important reason why we do
not allow it on the internet is that if someone can see it there, why
would they pay for it? In fact, the hard reality is that we have costs
associated with getting this message out, including overhead, the support
we provide people regarding dietary issues and advertising costs. We
also have legal agreements with distributors, resellers and musicians.
Showing this on the internet would undercut those agreements.
Parenthetically, the revenue from the Eating DVD and the Rave Diet &
Lifestyle book allowed us to produce Healing Cancer From Inside Out.
We have no benefactors and the only
revenue stream which allows us to keep going comes from sales. Putting
it on the internet is not only ineffective, but undercuts this revenue
stream and threatens the viability of the entire project. In an age of
sound-bites, we need to spend more time with people to persuade them to
change their eating habits. The internet simply does not provide that
time.
Mike Anderson
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