Drying for Freedom
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Drying For Freedom: By 2010 more than 50 million homeowners will be banned from line drying clothes outdoors for the sake of preserving property value and prudishness, the ban which infringes on a homeowners civil rights is contributing to the environmental and energy crisis, considering the dryer is responsible for 6% of the average households energy bill, as well as costing the U.S. an estimated $5 billion annually. This is a film about freedom, communities and clotheslines. Drying For Freedom follows the fight for the right to dry clothes naturally revealing the protests, passions, politics and murders asking how did drying clothes become a life threatening, environmental social catastrophe? Why canât we be free and dry clothes naturally?
Directed by Steven Lake. Produced by Adam J Merrifield. UK
August 17th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
This looks awesome, I can’t wait to see the finished thing!
August 17th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I discover a clothe line in the building garden. I bought peg. I was afraid about the bad english weather, but in fact it was not a pb. I save severals pounds because of the tumble drier that I use normally in a laundry. I participate to save the planet too.
I will try to continue, mainly where I will find a clothe line …
Good continuation and good luck ….
August 17th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
This is such an eye opener!
Since when has a clothesline been something worth banning?
Kean to know more about this issue.
August 17th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Hi
Is this movie made by an under 18 year old? just out of interest because i know not all of these videos are from under 18 year old people
August 17th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
This looks a really engaging documentary which I’d like to see.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Hi Finn
This one is over 18 and by a professional film maker but we have some under 18’s making films for the competition too. The competition is open to everyone, We want to hear from all age groups on climate change…
Jessica
Director
1 minute to save the world
August 18th, 2009 at 3:55 am
What a fascinating issue! To dry or not to dry…? And who would have thought it was a question that could lead to activism, death, police, a national hanging out day!!! A full-length documentary please!
August 26th, 2009 at 9:30 am
This video is focusing on a tiny detail of the problem. It also doesn’t mention the irony of driving around to try and get people to reduce energy. 50km of driving is about 20 times the energy of using the tumble dryer.
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:37 am
In a competition, there are always finalists and those who don’t get through. The problem we had was that there were so many fantastic videos to choose from that there was inevitably going to be great films that didn’t make it, especially as we had to meet a criteria for each category.
However, we’ve decided to rectify this a little and reward 5 more great videos. These have been added to the shortlist and will also guaranteed receive a subscription to Shooting People. They will be on our homepage soon.
The five videos are:
Tank head, Nature finds a way, Paving the planet, Earth clock, Restore the earth
WHAT WAFFLE FROM THE JUDGES THESE FILMS SHOULD BE REMOVED!
THIS COMPETITION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED!