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Matt Widgery

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About Me

Hi, I'm Matt Widgery, I head up an organisation called the 'GreenFilm Project' which in 2006 ran the 'World Environment Day GreenFilm Festival' in Stoke-on-Trent as part of UNEP's (United Nations Environment Programme's) 'World Environment Day' Celebrations.GreenFilms can be described as any film with an environmental, ecological, or zoological theme. We showed films from every continent on Earth over the 3 days. Photography is my other big love in life and this summer GreenFilm are launching Aim by Frame 2007 a photographic exhibition about the beauty of the natural world and the danger it faces. This will form part of the World Environment Day celebrations on June 5th. You can find out more about Aim by frame by visitng our website: www.aimbyframe2007.moonfruit.comThis year's event will raise money for Global Action Plan. Trewin Restorick, Director of Global Action Plan, said, “Global Action Plan is thrilled to be selected as the beneficiary charity of Aim by Frame 2007. Photographs are an excellent way to illustrate the beauty and fragility of the planet. Our programmes help people make changes everyday that will lighten their footprint and help preserve this planet that inspires so many spectacular photographs. We encourage everyone to attend the exhibit.”I'm also a performance poet. I have been doing gigs around London for the last couple of years.You can read my poems at the site of my alterego, performance poet MJ Henry. www.mjhenry.moonfruit.com Get your layout at 5000Layouts.com

My Interests

Film (making, watching, putting on events), photography (doing, viewing, putting on events) poetry (writing, reading, performing, putting on events), poker (losing at mostly), reading, mountain biking, music (playing keyboard/drums, listing to, going to gigs), setting the world to rights after a few beers.

I'd like to meet:

I am particularly interested in finding filmmakers and photographers from all over the world, who have been working on environmental or ecological projects and would be interested in sharing this work with UK audiences.Also anybody with green websites that can offer link space on their sites to promote future events please, please get in touch. The success of last year's film festival was entirely down to reciprocal link marketing and if I can avoid cutting down trees to make flyers, I will!Venues! Do you have a space suitable to hold film screenings or maybe a photographic exhibition? We are not a rich organisation so Wembley Stadium/Alexander Palace need not apply but if you have an interesting or unusual location please let me know. Myspace is entirely new to me so please help make it a success by becomming a member of this network.

Movies:

Citizen Kane, Sacrifice, 3 Colours Trilogy, Solaris (Tarkowvsky Version), The Big Lobowski, Barton Fink,Glengarry Glen Ross, Eraserhead,Mullholand Drive, Resevoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Scarface, Mean Streets, Dog Day Afternoon, One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest, I'm A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, Rififi, American History X, Clerks, The Leopard, Rear Window, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Birds, Big Trouble in Little China Town, Asault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter version), Straw Dogs, Wickerman, Sleepers, The Godfather, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, City of God, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Midnight Express, Lost in Translation, La Haine, The Idiots, Lost Highway, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apocolypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Easy Rider, Dr. Strangelove, L'Age D'Or, Un Chien Andelou, Leaving Las Vegas, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Fargo, LA Confidential, Kes, Team America, The Truman Show, The Shining, Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, Running Man, The Graduate, From Dusk Til Dawn, Shooting Fish, The Fly, Videodrome, WestWorld, Green Mile, Dekalog, Casablanca, Natural Born Killers, Romper Stomper, Dirty Harry, Casino, Lord of the Flies, Taxi Driver, Fifth Element, Goodfellas, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Bridge Over the river Kwai, African Queen, Million Dollar Baby, The Eiger Sanction, Mystic river, Fried Green Tomatoes, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Broken Flowers, Edward Scissor Hands, Lock Stock & Two Smoking barrells, Human Traffic, Twelve Monkeys, A Man With A Movie Camera, Stalker, Nostalgia, Coffee & Cigarettes, Groundhog Day, Marnie, Harvey, Great Expectations, Sin City, The Faculty, Vertigo, Secret Agent, The Usual Suspects, Fight Club, The Maltese Falcon, Metropolis, The Great Escape, Forest Gump, The Sting, Blade runner, Mad Max,. Cinema Paradiso, The Big Sleep, Crash, Life of Brian, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Magnolia, Planet of the Apes, Alfie, Sid & Nancy,Get Carter, Fitzcaraldo, The Fourth Protocol, Educating Rita, The Italian Job, The Apartment, Sexy Beast, In The Heat of The Night, To Sir With Love, Bowling for Columbine, Clockers, Elephant Man, Mona Lisa, Point Break, Blazing Saddles, Airplane, A Fish Called Wanda, Take The Money & Run, As Good As It Gets, Desperately Seeking Susan, Every Which Way But Loose, Police Academy, Singing in The Rain, The Man With 2 Brains, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Wayne's World, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Scum, Gregory's Girl, The Ipcress File, Blow Up, The Dam Busters, The Day of the Jackel, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, A Clockwork Orange, Educating Rita, Little Voice, Seven Samurai, Airplane, King Kong, Jason & The Argonauts, Jaws, The Exorcist, Event horizon, Silence of th Lambs, Carrie, American Beauty, Dead Man Walking, Amoros Peros, Sixth Sense, A Bout De Souffle, Mars Attacks, Being John Malkowich, Secretary, Crouchin Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Hudsucker Proxy, Vanishing Point, The Deer Hunter, Bagdad Cafe, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bagdad Cafe, Glengary Glenross...

My Blog

Does The Issue Of Global Warming Miss The Point?

I had a message through from a group called the global Warming Project 2007 this morning. This is what it said: "I started a Global Warming project emailing hundreds of scientists, climate researcher...
Posted by Matt Widgery on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:46:00 PST

What is freedom?

In response to a very well articulated blog from Frank Wolf I started to think about the effect our concept of freedom has on the uber-consumer lifestyle Frank described so well. The following is pre...
Posted by Matt Widgery on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:51:00 PST

Michael Meacher Speech 20/03/07 People's Assemby, Central Hall, Westminster

This is a speech I filmed last night for Michael Meacher's campaign. You can learn more about Michael and the MM4PM (Michael Meacher for Prime Minister) campaign at www.myspace.com/...
Posted by Matt Widgery on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:53:00 PST

Global warming isn't our fault, apparently.

There are always at least two sides to every argument and in science there are often many more than that. No surprise then that Channel 4 last night managed to find a decent showing of 'big gun' scien...
Posted by Matt Widgery on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:30:00 PST

If globalisation is a virus, can we develop a vaccine?

"A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. Since the individual who transmitted the meme will continue to carry it, the transmission can b...
Posted by Matt Widgery on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:00:00 PST

Rubbish: Don't take the problem home with you!

Dear Friends, There's no getting away from it. Trying to be a 'green' consumer is about as easy as being a pacifist soldier in the heat of battle. You know you're going to kill/endanger/damage somethi...
Posted by Matt Widgery on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:09:00 PST

World Environment Day Aim by Frame Photo Expo 2007

  There comes a time in every man's life when he must stand up and be heard. No longer satisfied with the whiskey-soaked pub philosophy of half cut mates in an East End boozer, he emerges bl...
Posted by Matt Widgery on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:11:00 PST