BUY THE DVD HERE
DVDs from $25.00New lower prices for bulk orders HERE
Special Price for Public Libraries HERE
All screenings held on April 22 are screening-fee free as long as they are free to the public. Let's get everyone thinking about sustainability and inspire local initiates this spring. Mark Earth Day 2008 (April 22) with friends by throwing an Escape from Suburbia screening party. With our economical 3-pack and 5-pack prices, you can give everyone a gift DVD too. Or engage your community by getting your local environmental group, business or public library to host a screening and discussion.
For educators, Escape from Suburbia offers rich discussion material about energy and sustainability issues. If your school or public library doesn't have the DVD, they can quickly get one by visiting our institutions or public library pages on this website.
In Canada, we welcome KRK as our distributor for wholesale sales. All individual DVD orders, re-seller bulk purchases (such as website based re-sellers) and screening arrangements world wide will continue to be processed through this website as usual.
We welcome Seventh Arts Releasing as our USA education, public library and festivals distributor. They will now handle all DVD orders for libraries and educational institutions based in the USA. This does not affect Canadian or foreign educational and library orders which we continue to process on this website.
In the United States, watch the television debut of Escape from Sububia on The Sundance Channel May 6 at 9:35 p.m. It will be repeated on May 9 and 11 as well.
In Canada, TV Ontario will begin broadcast of both The End of Suburbia and Escape from Suburbia in their 2008-2009 season.
As of July 1, Netflix subscribers will be able to download or rent the hard copy DVD.
We also welcome TPI as our foreign distributor for all broadcast sales. Films Transit International will continue to represent Escape from Suburbia in the United States for broadcast.
A new special price puts Escape from Suburbia on your bookshelves! Buy your library copies HERE
Happy New Year! As we launch into 2008 with a refreshed resolve to practice greener living and work toward a more sustainable environment, a serious marker has been set in the opening days of this new year ... the $100 barrel of oil.
As sobering as this news is, it challenges us to support the good work of environmental groups in our communities, educators spreading awareness, politicians pushing sound legislation, and businesses adopting greener practices. As filmmakers, we are doing our bit by working on new projects that speak to important environmental issues.
In an effort to help more people afford to own our DVD and share its message with friends, we are keeping our holiday individual private use DVDs at $25 each. In recent weeks several environmental groups have presented Escape from Suburbia and have increased the participation of people in their communities who want to work for a more sustainable future. Visit our Host a Screening page HERE or call or write us to bring Escape to your community.
Look to this site for Gregory Greene's new blog that will debut soon.
If you have a website and would like to banner swap with us, we'd love to hear from you. Let's push the effort further this year, engage more people in the cause, and feel more confident about our footprint on this Earth.
Get the End of Suburbia AND Escape from Suburbia for one low price. The perfect holiday gift for your Republican brother-in-law in suburbia.
Also grab individual copies of Escape for the low price of $25.00. 3 and 5 packs also reduced. Order now to recieve your package by the holidays
New events: Dublin Ireland, Willits CA, Eugene OR. See EVENTS
New screening fees see HOST A SCREENING
Lower prices see STORE
Our heart-felt thank you to everyone who has purchased Escape from Suburbia on DVD. Your support for independent filmmaking makes it possible for us to make the films you want to see. It's more true than ever before, we're all in this together.
Because of your generosity, individual DVD copies down to $29.99 plus shipping and handling, effective immediately. Now more folks will be able to afford the DVD and keep the conversation alive.
Now we enter the second tier of our film screenings. Screening fees have been reduced for presentations after November 2. Now a wider range of community groups and other organizations can present the film. Contact us at:dara@escapefromsuburbia.com today to book your event. More information on screenings can be found on our SCREENING PAGE.
Good news for re-sellers: now you can sell our DVDs from your website as of November 1st. Check out our bulk discounts on our BULK ORDERS PAGE
The second trailer for Escape from Suburbia is released. Watch it HERE.
Escape from Suburbia won the Grand Prize, RIFF Environmental Focus Award at the 11th annual Rhode Island International Film Festival ceremony August 12. It was our first festival screening. Festival Executive Director and CEO George T. Marshall says, "The award you received was created because of your film and is the first of its kind. Our judges felt very strongly that your work needed to be acknowledged..."
Book your Escape event today and fundraise for your environmental group. We'll add you to the list of events that keeps growing. Contact: dara@escapefromsuburbia.com.
Submedia hosts the Vancouver premiere of Escape on August 17. Locals Jan and Carol Steinman, two of the film's main characters, will be there for a post-screening discussion. Purchase tickets and find more information at: submedia.tv/escape/.
Director Gregory Greene and Producer Dara Rowland return to Willits California to attend the Escape premiere along with several people who appear in the film. More information: willitseconomiclocalization.org. Then we'll head up the coast for screenings in Eugene OR (relocalize.net/group/eugene) and Vancouver (www.best.bc.ca). More west coast premiere dates to come.
The Toronto Star, Christopher Hume feature June 28/07
The Republic of East Vancouver
Treehugger.
CFRO Ecoshock Radio Vancouver
KPFK Radio Los Angeles
BUZZ: Boulder Colorado
Carolyn Baker (Note: screening fee mentioned is not correct and was not provided by us)
The Georgia Straight, Vancouver
CityFarmer, Vancouver
POV magazine Canada
THIS magazine Canada
CBC Radio Metro Morning Toronto
CityTV Breakfast Television Toronto
CFRB Toronto
Plus more...
June 28 - read Chris Hume's take on Escape from Suburbia in the Toronto Star today HERE, then hear Gregory Greene on CFRB Christina Chernesky Show at 1:30 pm (Toronto) and on CBC Radio Here and Now between 4 and 5 pm (Toronto).
Join us at our premiere screening in Toronto this evening - The Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St W (near Bathurst), 7 p.m. curtain. $15. The director, producer and crew plus a few surprise guests will be on hand to celebrate. DVDs on sale at the door - special $30 cash only one night only.
The long wait to order your Escape from Suburbia DVD is over! We are now taking orders. All ordering information is HERE.
The official world premiere for Escape from Suburbia will be in Toronto June 28 at the Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor Street. Director Gregory Greene will be on hand to introduce his film and answer a few questions after the screening. For ticketing and tickets/DVD purchase information see EVENTS.
Would your organization like to host a premiere screening of Escape from Suburbia? Screening sponsorships are now available for purchase. To launch our film, we’ll give you a substantial screening fee discount if you confirm your event by June 15. Enquire HERE.
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Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream, The End of Suburbia introduced the concept of peak oil. Now, in Escape from Suburbia, theory gives way to reality as a global debate rages over when demand will outpace supply, an emerging movement of citizens’ groups confront our addiction to oil, and three disparate characters and a small California town take on the most dramatic shift in modern history.
Escape from Suburbia is a wake-up call that challenges the illusion of never-ending growth based on the availability of cheap and abundant oil. Expert opinion and commentary from government and industry are countered by on-the-street skepticism from a growing segment of the population who’ve had personal experiences with natural disasters, rising gas prices and fragile energy grids. In Escape from Suburbia, viable local alternatives for citizens and communities are explored to ensure the survival of a sustainable civilization in the 21st Century and beyond.