I will try to have the trailer posted here before the end of the day, as in before midnight on the east coast of the U.S.

Until then, I’m preemptively responding to some concern about the thrust of this movie. I understand concern that my adviser raised about sounding too “boosterish”. Writes Dan, “I hope that you are very positive about China’s env’l situation–where appropriate–and honest about problems, where appropriate.  You don’t want to lose credibility by sounding too boosterish (I’m sure you know that, but I just want to make sure you do!).”

I’m not sure how to solve this problem, because the people we spoke with were doing positive work. I responded to Dan’s concern: “It is true that I set out to talk to the people who are doing really great conservation and EE work, so there’s is the story we’re telling. I pitched the project in this way, telling the good story about the environmental movement in China. I thought that, balanced with the negative coverage in the Western main stream media and the greenwashed media coverage in China, this makes a complete picture. BUT, you’re right that it de-legitimizes the film to be only singing China’s praises. We have a couple of folks who are working for sectors other than the IENGO sector who bring a little more realism to the picture, and we’ll introduce them later on. I think Ben thought that, overwhelmingly, this is a positive and hopeful story, so he didn’t bring the counter arguments into the trailer. In such a short representation, that would be misleading I think.”