Do you know where the flowers you buy actually come from?

This animated campaigns film takes a look at where our flowers come from, how they are grown, and the effects that this industry is having on workers and the environment.

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Written and Directed by Paul Heard and Rebecca Swain, Animated by Paul Heard.

Funded by The Big Boost.

Women working worldwide:

http://www.poptel.org.uk/women-ww/campaigns.html

Pesticide Action Network

http://www.pan-uk.org/

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I animated this by painting each element of the scenes in acrylic on canvas. I then scanned each canvas in sections and used photoshop to cut each element out onto seperate layers. I then animated the film using adobe after effects.

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If you enjoyed this film and found it informative, please repost it everywhere and anywhere… blogs, myspace, facebook, bulletins, wherever.

And please help this get exposure by helping it into the honors charts by RATING COMMENTING and adding it as a FAVOURITE.

Let me know if you do this, and I’ll thank you personally.

Thank you.

Paul

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