Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 8:47AM The Macao China Digital Cinema Festival and Technology Expo with the 3D Summit was a huge success.
Awards included the White Lotus Humanitarian Filmmaker Award 2010 - to Turk Pipkin for “One Peace at a Time”
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 10:14AM Gala veterans agreed Turk and Christy Pipkin’s 2008 Nobelity Dinner was the star-studliest social event of that season.
The luminaries will shine just as brightly April 11 at the Four Seasons for the event’s second edition. Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, Joe Ely, Hannibal Lokumbe and Ray Benson will serenade guest of honor Willie Nelson.
Sitting at tables with ordinary folks will be celebrity types such as Billy Bob Thornton, Elizabeth Avellan, Connie Britton, Kyle Chandler, Brad Leland, Rick Linklater and Bill Paxton.
Nobel-winning physicist Steve Weinberg will join literary celebrities Sarah Bird, Steve Harrigan, Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Bill Wittliff. Other guests include Charlie Sexton, Eliza Gilkyson, Kat Edmonson, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Shawn Colvin.
Proceeds will support education work in the U.S. and abroad, including construction of Mahiga Hope High School in Kenya. Top tables are going for $10,000, but other prices are available; contact christy@nobelity.com.
— Michael Barnes
Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 9:56AM The Nobelity Project, monterey media, and the Paramount Theater in Austin Texas raised $13,000 for Architecture for Humanity’s rebuilding effort in Haiti. Over 700 people attended a screening of One Peace at a Time and the three organizations dedicated all proceeds to the fund.
If you are intertested in hosting a screening to benefit Haiti please click on “Host a Screening” on this site.