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| Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle are documentary video and radio producers, educators, community and international organizers. They are the co-founders of the Ecological Options Network - EON, which is dedicated to mapping “What's Working Where, Worldwide” - working to connect the dots of the emerging planetary culture of Sustainability, Diversity, Justice and Peace coming up through the widening cracks in the “civilization of the bottom line.” Brangan and Heddle are award-winning filmmakers of social & environmental issue documentaries produced in the last two decades which have been broadcast and toured nationally and internationally; aired in Congress, the United Nations, on PBS, ABC, CNN, cable; and used in parliaments, universities, libraries and by citizens' organizations and NGO's worldwide. Their work has been honored at the Sundance, American, San Francisco Asian-American, Dallas; Hawaii International and Margaret Mead Film Festivals, among others. Previous and present funders include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; PBS; the Alton-Jones, McArthur, Columbia and Turner Foundations; the European Commission; the Agape Foundation for Non-Violent Social Change; The Circle Flow Fund, and private donors. Their productions include: STRATEGIC TRUST: the Making of Nuclear Free Palau; FREE ZONE: Democracy Meets the Nuclear Threat; CHOICEPOINT: California's Water & Nuclear Waste; PELIGRO!: Nuclear Showdown on the Rio Grande; ISLANDS on the EDGE of TIME; and BORDERING on TYRANNY: Thailand's Dilemma and PUBLIC EXPOSURE: DNA, Democracy and the “Wireless Revolution. Human rights, Indigenous rights, democracy and environmental issue campaigners for two decades, Brangan and Heddle are co-founders of Options 2000 International, the Nuclear Democracy Network, the Bay Area Nuclear (BAN) Waste Coalition, and the Ecological Options Network, (EON). They played key organizing roles building international support for the Micronesian Republic of Palau's right to its precedent-setting nuclear free national constitution; in stopping a proposed national radioactive waste dump in Ward Valley, California; and in maximizing safety at nuclear facilities worldwide during the 2000 rollover, as U.S. Co-Coordinators of an International World Atomic Safety Campaign. They are currently in production on documentary projects dealing with energy policy and election reform. |
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