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gryphonpro
 Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239 |
AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 8:30 AM April Kickstart Documentary "An Unlikely Vegan" being made in eastern Canada I am a documentary film maker located in eastern Canada. I have registered for the April Kickstart, with another person (Irene). We will be making a community documentary based on our experience. The documentary will be character driven, and focused on Irene. We have a medical doctor, and a chinese medicine practitioner, who have both agreed to participate in providing baseline and followup, content which we will be able to use in our documentary. We also have the support of the local Vegetarian Association, and hope to include many other local groups and individuals. The buzz about town is that we are making a "reverse supersize me documentary"! What you could help us with: 1. follow us as we develop this project, and offer advise and opinions to make the documentary better. I will post links to our Indiegogo fundraising campaign, and facebook page, as soon as we get that up. 2. let us know of any similar projects currently going on, or of similar things that may have been already done. 3. let us know of any support or resources which might be of help to us Please note that although this is a community based endeavour, I am a professional documentary maker with many years experience in community video. I have also been a vegetarian for decades, and an active member of the Cape Breton Vegetarian Association. If you are interested in the calibre of my work, please refer to my website: I am planning to make this documentary with my own resources, and with what we are able to raise from the community. Where there is passion, there is always a way! - madeline madeline yakimchuk
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Oceandog
 Location: California, USA Posts: 642 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 11:41 AM Madeline, We wish you well and hope that your documentary has an enormous reach and positive impact for a plant-based vegan diet. Best Wishes, Kym Always offer kindness and a soft word to the beings around you; You do not know their journey. Your words can be the hug they need or the shove that breaks them. |
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| marge
Joined: 09/08/10 Location: Seattle Posts: 211 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 1:24 PM what fun! Are we going to be able to view the finished product if we live in the USA? hey better yet, get on the Rick Mercer Report, I love that show. |
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| gryphonpro
Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 1:48 PM At the very least there will be a low resolution version on my blip.tv or vimeo site when we get it done! We are thinking about pre-selling DVD's as part of our fundraising, but the point is to get it out there, so we will definitely have free access of some sort. madeline yakimchuk
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| gryphonpro
Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 1:48 PM At the very least there will be a low resolution version on my blip.tv or vimeo site when we get it done! We are thinking about pre-selling DVD's as part of our fundraising, but the point is to get it out there, so we will definitely have free access of some sort. madeline yakimchuk
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| gryphonpro
Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 9:18 PM Here is the first draft synopsis. Opinions welcome. I have written directly to PCRM to ask for permission to refer to this Kickstart program in our documentary... haven't heard back yet. If I was running something like this program, I would welcome additional coverage, but I don't want to assume. I am hoping to hear from the program officially. AN UNLIKELY VEGAN - The Documentary It has taken fifty-something odd years of life, but Irene is finally fed-up. Who knew that the baby boomers would end up aging? Our parents are older and need us now. Our children are grown, but just won’t leave. We have aches, and pains, and mortgages, and worries of all types. Our width-to-height ratio insists on its creeping approach to one, and it isn’t the “one with the universe” we were hoping to have achieved by now. Irene has decided that enough is enough. If the state of the world is what we have made of it, then the state of Irene may be what she has made of it. Speaking of “one with the universe” maybe these two states are related. If the new environmentalism is all about food, maybe our health is too. Maybe Irene should become a VEGAN! AN UNLIKELY VEGAN is a documentary about Irene, the state of her health, the power of her wit, and her resolve as she embarks on the 21-day VEGAN Kickstart, promoted by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). We follow Irene from the moment she discusses her plan with her medical doctor. We go grocery shopping with her, We watch her learn new recipes. We see how she manages at restaurants, and at the office. We hear what her doctor tells her as she progresses through the Kickstart, and we see how her friends and family react. Through Irene’s experience, we see that she is not such AN UNLIKELY VEGAN, and perhaps neither are we. madeline yakimchuk
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| gryphonpro
Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239 |
Is the 21 day plan always the same? Posted Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 10:17 AM We are preparing for our April documentary shoot, and are wondering if anyone can confirm whether the meal plan (and therefore the grocery list) will be the same in April compared to what I can see here for January? Thanks! madeline yakimchuk
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| Bugsmom
Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2068 |
RE: Is the 21 day plan always the same? Posted Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 10:28 AM gryphonpro wrote: We are preparing for our April documentary shoot, and are wondering if anyone can confirm whether the meal plan (and therefore the grocery list) will be the same in April compared to what I can see here for January? Thanks! Many of the ingredients are the same but the menus change - lots of dark greens like kale and chard; grains like quinoa, brown rice and rolled oats; fruits, especially berries for smoothies; all sorts of spices - definitely need cumin, chili powder, garlic; plant milk (there are a bunch of options here, maybe start now to find which one you prefer and have ready access to - soy, rice, almond, hemp, etc); beans/legumes/lentils - chickpeas, black beans, and red lentils among others. Also, start checking your local shopping options for whole grain and alternate grain breads and pastas - white flour is the bottom of the list; you want whole wheat, quinoa, spelt, etc. Preferably 5+ grams of fiber per serving. That's what makes the kickstart so cool - once you get the hang of the basic ingredients involved, you can expand how they are put together into all sorts of recipes/meals. The sky's the limit which makes continuing vegan eating a lot easier than being tied to 21 specific recipes and nothing else. The DIY days on the kickstart are exactly designed to start getting creative with what you've been learning (might be handy to have a vegan cookbook and/or some vegan recipe websites bookmarked) --Deb R |
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| LisaPunk
Joined: 01/06/11 Posts: 42 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM so basically if you've already completed one kickstart its not a bad idea to sign up for another to get more recipes and ideas?? think i will sign up for april too! |
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| Bugsmom
Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2068 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 11:11 AM LisaPunk wrote: so basically if you've already completed one kickstart its not a bad idea to sign up for another to get more recipes and ideas?? think i will sign up for april too! New recipes, new celeb tips and encouragement, and a new forum for chatting with folks as well (the traffic on this forum is pretty amazing at this point - the September kickstart forum's traffic dribbled away pretty quickly once it ended) There's often a different theme or slant to the recipes - Asian, Middle Eastern, etc. But, there are still some of the favorite tried-and-true recipes as well. --Deb R |
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| LisaPunk
Joined: 01/06/11 Posts: 42 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 11:13 AM i just signed up for the April one. i really enjoyed the daily email during the January one, i think it helped me "convert" to a full vegan diet. i loved all the nutrition info i could find. |
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| gryphonpro
Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 2:49 PM I wonder if there is any way that folk who are making a documentary could have a sneek preview of the grocery list and meal plan, at least for the first week? Is there a staff kickstart program coordinator? We have a fairly well stocked grocery store here in my small city, as well as a health food store, and I was hoping to include them by asking them to provide groceries for the documentary. The pcrm staff must be very busy with that fabulous law suit, but I would really appreciate a bit of advance information. Any help that anyone could give me by calling their attention to AN UNLIKELY VEGAN would be wonderful. Thanks. Otherwise, we will just wing it! I am working on an indiegogo.com community documentary fundraising campaign, which I hope will go live tomorrow or Monday. madeline yakimchuk
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| Oceandog
Location: California, USA Posts: 642 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 3:13 PM I have signed up for a few kickstarts and I monitor when I forget to sign up, so I am nearly always about! Always offer kindness and a soft word to the beings around you; You do not know their journey. Your words can be the hug they need or the shove that breaks them. |
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| veganer
Joined: 01/04/11 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 196 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 6:49 PM Madeline, |
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| gryphonpro
Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 7:49 PM Thank you, comments are welcome. The idea about all of those problems was to represent what it is like to be 50-something and over-wealmed, and the toll that takes on one's health in a general way, plus the fact that we tend to hide in junk food rather than make changes. This is what life is like for our target audience. The doc itself will focus on 21 days of positive change toward a new way of living. madeline yakimchuk
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| veganer
Joined: 01/04/11 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 196 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Friday, February 18, 2011 at 7:55 AM Madeline, Your reply makes more sense than the synopsis. The 50's are the highest income earning years so they wouldn't be typical 50 some year olds but that's not who you are focusing on. Hope the synopsis will be clear that its only a step towards positive change because wouldn't want to disappoint these folks because after the 21 days they Still Will be overwhelmed with the mortgage, financial worries, grown child who won't leave, and an older parent who needs them. |
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| gryphonpro
Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Friday, February 18, 2011 at 1:40 PM I was thinking to do a followup when I am just about finished the rough cut, to get some material from a few months down the road. You are right that it would be a good idea. madeline yakimchuk
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| gryphonpro
Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Friday, February 18, 2011 at 2:29 PM Our Facebook page is: If you are a Facebook user, please like our page. madeline yakimchuk
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| kiwi
Joined: 01/03/11 Location: New Zealand Posts: 405 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Friday, February 18, 2011 at 3:14 PM Interesting discussion between veganor and gryphonpro. You could be describing me. I turn 50 this year. Have the usual money concerns,(paying mortgage, trying to save for retirement but thats alomst impossible, cost of everything is rising, aging parent to care for, etc). I have been an unhealthy vegetarian and known I needed to get healthy for some time. I tried several "diets" but nothing stuck until I found the 21 day kickstart. Now I can't go back. The reasosn I think this worked for me I could keep going but I think you get the idea. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food - Hippocrates. |
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| Oceandog
Location: California, USA Posts: 642 |
RE: AN UNLIKELY VEGAN Posted Friday, February 18, 2011 at 3:20 PM Nice comments Kiwi and all. I think we all will benefit!! Always offer kindness and a soft word to the beings around you; You do not know their journey. Your words can be the hug they need or the shove that breaks them. |
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