From our Vape Film Making Warriors – AbiilionlivesFilm

When I prepared my speech to the White House OMB and FDA, I thought they’d listen. When I presented it, they didn’t seem to care. Today I know they didn’t. I used to be naive about how government works. I still think most people are. We’ve known for almost a year now that that this would happen, that the FDA would basically ban 99% of life-saving vapor products out there…leaving only those sold by Big Tobacco. It’s time to wake up smokers. It’s time to wake up vapers. It’s time to wake up the public.We’re being lied to, and people are going to die. How do we fight this? It will be a combination of relationship building at the government level and public relations. You should join or start an association and give them money so they can fight. However, we must also change the public’s perception of vaping. Right now they are cheering on the FDA. Our film will help, but we need to make major noise.Here’s how you can help: A) If you see an article about vaping, please mention our film. B) If you get interviewed about vapor technology, please mention our movie. If you help us get on the air, we will carry the message. We’re not smokers. We’re not vapers. We’re not in the vapor tech business. Here’s a recent radio interview I did. With your help, there will be many more. How are we launching this movie?  That’s the question I get hundreds of times a day. Here’s the plan so far: 1) A proper World Premiere at Oscar-qualifying DocEdge International Film Festival to gain media attention.  This is going well. Alfaliquid just offered to sponsor the after-party to assist with costs and pump it up. NZVapor is sponsoring the red carpet festivities. Hawke’s Bay Vapour and NVC are sponsoring the event photography. I am extremely grateful and this support has allowed us to attract people (media, politicians, etc.) to the movie from many countries, including those who have banned vapor technology. 2) Show politicians, scientists, and doctors the truth at our European Premiere during GFN on June 16th. Preparations are ongoing, but I’m very thankful for the help the Global Forum on Nicotine has provided. Not only did they help us land the Hon Lik interview last year, but they are also helping coordinate VIPs for the big event their hosting at the Palace of Culture in Warsaw. Souvenir programs. Awards show. After-party. It’s coming along nicely. 3) An epic North American Premiere in the US We’re excited to bring the movie home. Many have asked us why we didn’t premiere in the US. The answer is money. We didn’t have the money to throw a proper premiere by ourselves and we needed the help of a world-class film festival. DocEdge invited us and we were very excited to accept. In order to keep momentum rolling and get the attention of the public/media/politicians, we need to keep the level of these events to the highest quality. Few things capture the public’s attention like a red carpet and the festivities surrounding a movie premiere. We only get one chance to premiere a movie in each region, and we’re going to make the most of it. We’ll set a date in the US once we’ve figured out a way to pay for it. Jesse is working on it. 4) A noise-making Canadian Premiere Same as above for the US. Jesse does have one person who’s offered to help sponsor an after-party to cover our costs to throw a special premiere that will make noise. We’ll let you know once that’s been figured out. Jesse is working on it. 5) Tour of North American regional premieres We’re working on renting a bus and planning premiere events around North America. So far, we’re planning events at the IMAX below the Seattle Space Needle (thanks John Conner for the help), Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, Milwaukee, Miami, Philadelphia, Tampa, Phoenix, Orlando, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Calgary, Nashville, Santa Fe, and others. Basically, we need two things to make it happen in your city: 1) someone to help guarantee tickets sold (we don’t have a huge marketing budget) 2) someone to sponsor the after-party to cover our costs (gas, banners, theater rentals, projection costs, food, etc.) If you know anyone with either a large following or a large bank account, please have them contact [email protected]. 6) Other film festivals We are starting to get other film festivals contacting us now that the movie is done. If you have one in your area, please contact them. It worked in Tampa and it worked for New Zealand. It took an organized group of people calling/emailing. It wasn’t easy. 7) Australian Premiere We are getting closer to a plan for a proper Australian Premiere in July. We also have some discussions with distribution companies there. We need New Zealand to go well first. Stay tuned. 8) German Premiere Thanks to the work of Anja, Frank, Ira and a bunch of other really amazing Germans, we have interest in the movie from several theaters and distributors. Anja Jochem Skowronek is managing/translating the A Billion Lives German page and it’s up to almost 2000 people! It’s been mindblowing to see how organized and active they are in Germany. If we keep at this, there will be a wide release throughout all of Germany, possibly Austria and Switzerland too. Our biggest hurdle now is preparing the movie for a German audience. 9) Norwegian Premiere Lisbet Fjølstad has been helping/translating the A Billion Lives Norwegian page. We now have growing interest from movie distributors there. 10) French Premiere We will have a premiere in France, a country that has been so wonderfully supportive. I’ve traveled there three times in the past year and their support has been amazing. Same as all the premieres, our goal will be to put together an event that will capture the attention of the media and public. 11) Swedish Premiere We just launched an A Billion Lives Swedish page after Ubbe Strihagen offered to help translate. He’s also done a lot of work reaching out to movie distributors there as well. There are conversations happening and I’m confident that the Swedish people will get a chance to see A Billion Lives. 12) The United Kingdom We’d really really really like to host a UK Premiere soon. Our friends in Scotland did their best to bring the movie to a film festival in Edinburgh, but we just found out the festival wasn’t interested in the topic. Despite having several prominent UK thinkers in the movie, we are not seeing much other interest at this time from the UK. Hopefully that will change soon. After we finish in theaters and have enough attention, we will release the film digitally, and then on DVD/BluRay in fall. Closing Thoughts I get about 100 requests a day for the movie. In different languages. In different cities. Our message is needed. Hopefully Hollywood will hear your voice, see the potential, and decide to back the film. Then it will be instantly everywhere. Until then, we’re going to do this the best way we can. Step by step. Building an audience. Building momentum. Thanks for your help, – Aaron Biebert & the team

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Vape news: ABillionLives Film Update

On the way to Europe for review Our first date. June 16thOn that day, A Billion Lives will play at the Palace of Culture during the Global Forum on Nicotine. Click here to see their announcement Other exciting announcements & dates are pending. June 16th will not be the first time the film is shown. Palace of Culture in Warsaw Poland A Billion Lives on The Morning Blend Molly Fay, a television journalist and host of The Morning Blend had me on her show today to talk about social media. We ended up talking about A Billion Lives. Later on, she posted this. I get worried when mainstream media leaders stick their necks out to help us. All too often, corrupt or brainwashed people come out to beat them up. If we want more mainstream journalists to take our movement seriously, we need to support them. Can you “Love” her post, comment with general support for the topic (keep it focused on helping smokers), and share it? They might have us on the program later to focus on the film, so I want to show how supportive we can be. Click here to see what she said Film Festivals We need your help. We’re reaching out to the following film festivals all over the world to see if there is interest in premiering the film in their city/country. They are going through thousands of films and are very busy, so I would encourage you to contact them. Let them hear how important this topic is. April Tribeca Film Festival – New York, NY Contact @Tribeca Hot Docs Film Festival – Toronto, Canada Contact @HotDocs France in May Cannes Contact @Festival_Cannes UK in June Edinburgh International Film Festival Contact @EdFilmFest Sheffield Doc/Fest Contact @SheffDocFest If you’d like to see A Billion Lives at other film festivals, please have them contact us. That’s all for now. Please support Molly and other intelligent journalists and we’ll have more big news soon. Thanks! – Aaron Biebert & the team

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Vegas VapeFest: Vape Advocacy Notes

by J.G. Founder of VapeSling LLC

On Feb 26th and 27th 2016, Vegas VapeFest was held once more. This year the National Vapers Club (NVC), organizers of VapeFest and Vape Activist events/meetings, decided to take the Vape Advocacy Seminar to the public! Previously, the valuable seminars were scheduled to be held in private rooms. The new public format was a welcome sight.

Yes, there were minor distractions on the show floor, however, the majority of the Vape Guests and Vendors attended the gathering held in the middle of the show floor. The Panel was filled with Vape Advocate celebrities: Julie Woessner (CASAA President), Cynthia Cabrera (SFATA President), Stefan Didak (Founder of NotBlowingSmoke), Cheryl Richter (NVC President), and Alex Clark (CASAA CTA publisher). This elite panel shared many points for our #2016VapeFight.

The following are my notes:

Julie Woessner (CASAA President), Alex Clark (CASAA CTA publisher) CASAA:

1. Calls to Action (CTA): All vapers must react to every single CTA published for their region.
2. Subscribe to CASAA. There are only 100k of subscribers. There should be 9 million. Sign up for the quarterly emails as well.
3. Vape responsibly: Clouds are great! However, when in a public area of non-vapers or smokers, keep your cloud down. Use low volume devices or as Grimm Green once demonstrated, blow the vape into your shirt. The clouds are causing some form of hatred towards vapers, so please keep the clouds rollin, but not in others faces.
4. Don’t support any business that does not Advocate for Vaping.
5. Don’t support any business that irresponsibly makes Child friendly products. However not intended for children, the product still hurts our vaping community and fight. We are under microscopes these days. These cereal and child favorite labeling is Ammo for the opposing parental view.
6. Educate vapers, however, more importantly, educate the non-vapers. Engage non-vapers to hear your story and correct any misinformation they may have stored. The people, not just government, can be informed and persuaded to help save billions of lives.
7. Print CASAA flyers and take to your Vape Shops. Activate and Advocate.

Cynthia Cabrera (SFATA President) SFATA:

1. The FDA deeming regulations are inevitable. They will be enforced sometime this year. It’s just a matter of when. Vape Businesses need to engage with SFATA for every CTA needed from them. Join SFATA now if you are a Vape Business. Unfortunately, time is running out, however still more action to be done. Every vape business will be required to win.
2. Child friendly labels are hurting our Vape business. This irresponsible behavior must cease to gain notoriety with the public. As of now the public has waned towards opposition due to our many flavors. Now this is the icing on the Kid Cake for the opposition. Vape Businesses, please wake up and label responsibly.
3. OMB meetings and Washington D.C.: If you are a e-liquid maker and you haven’t flown to Washington D.C. for a meeting, you are due. These meetings, however inconvenient, are the main fight businesses have. Take advantage while you still can be heard. Organize with SFATA for an OMB/OIRA meeting.
4. Get in Front of your Reps: If you haven’t met your Senators or Representatives, fly to D.C. to do it ASAP. If you absolutely cant do this, call and write as much as possible.
5. Vape Shops: You are at the public end. You are extremely important to our vaping community. You can educate the public best out of all businesses. Local Neighborhood: Everything you do is being watched closely by opposers and vape advocates the same. Set example for the rest and be the best. Print and post flyers for CASAA, SFATA, NotBlowingSmoke etc.
6. Vape Shops: Battery Safety: If you don’t have liability insurance, get it immediately. Also, provide a “Battery Safety” sign off card for your protection of frivolous law suits. The signed document will help prove your concern for the customer’s safety.

Stefan Didak (Founder of NotBlowingSmoke) NotBlowingSmoke:

1. Common Sense: — USE IT!!! Vape responsibly and Advocate. Educate everyone.
2. Post and repost on social media. Social Media reaches many.
3. Donate to the “Go Fund” me at https://www.gofundme.com/notblowingsmoke
4. Join No Casualties Campaign.
5. Print NBS Flyers for your vapeshops and other vape gatherings, such as cloud comps.
6. Go to D.C. if possible. Speak to your Rep or Senator face to face. Call and write your story.
7. Support all your local vape businesses that Advocate.
8. Conserve your clouds. Clouds in non-vaping public is tainting our image more than ever. Refrain from intimidating behavior towards non-vapers and smokers.
9. Wake, Vape, Advocate, every day. Always have a thought saved everyday for advocacy. This year we need all the help we can get. You may come up with a brilliant solution to our Vaping woes.

Cheryl Richter (NVC President) National Vapers Club (NVC):

1. A study will be conducted by NVC from donated funds (VSLLC and many vape businesses). The study will be to determine once and for all, if 2nd hand vapor is harmful or lingers. The study will involve an apartment building. Rooms in the building will be exposed to vapor. The vapor will be measured in intervals for dissipation and density. A very valuable test. We are all sure the scientific facts will prove in favor of vaping. Misinformation needs to be crushed immediately with scientific facts. This will be one of them.
2. NVC will continue to organize informational advocacy and vape activism throughout the year. They always involve SFATA, CASAA, etc. for more effect.
3. Support VapeFest wherever they show up. Attend the advocate seminars provided. Stay informed and respond to all calls to action.
4. Cheryl and NVC joined CASAA and SFATA on their OMB meeting visit to D.C.

My Summary:

Vaping is in serious danger. All vapers and their non-vaping friends need to get involved…NOW!!!

Keep the clouds within friends and not out in public.

Support your Vape Community by patronage to Vape Advocate Business only. Forget the rest till they past the test.

Misinformation needs to be crushed with scientific facts:

Fact #1: Smoking TAR is proven to Kill 400k a year. Vaping has no casualties, for any year!!! (Drops the mic and walks off)

The notes taken and published here are solely of VapeSling founder J.G. As with any human, his text may have an error or 2. In context, the text is his written recollection of what was said at the seminar.

Vape Call To Action MAR2016

Posted 1/18/16