The Cli Fi Movie Awards get a name: THE CLIFFIES! A Q and A with cli-fi founder Dan Bloom

The Cli Fi Movie Awards get a name: THE CLIFFIES!

Joe and I are pleased to share an amazing event with help from its founder, THE CLIFFIES! Please check out the Q and A below to learn more about the first awards program for climate  fiction (cli-fi) film! In a brief self-interview, climate activist and genre student Dan

Bloom talks about his new Cli Fi Movie Awards program, what it is and

why he started it.

QUESTION: -- Dan, you've coined the cli fi genre term and you've been

busy the past 3 years promoting it to the media in the USA, the UK and

Australia, with some pickups also in Denmark, Norway, Brazil, Chile

and Spain. Why are you now curating the CLIFFIES, what you call the

CLI FI MOVIE AWARDS, which you have dubbed in your word coining ways

as "The Cliffies"? What are the Cliffies?

DAN BLOOM: The Cli Fi Movie Awards will honor and recognize the best

cli fi movies of the year on an annual basis. In ten categories. The

2015 launch will be on February 15, a week before the Oscars telecast

worldwide.

QUESTION: -- Why run the event a week before the Oscars?

DAN BLOOM: We want to get maximum media exposure for the Cliffies

awards and this is just good PR timing.

QUESTION: How many movie nominations have come in this year for the

2014 period of cli fi movies?

DAN BLOOM: Seven films have been nominated so far, with categories

like best directors, actors, supporting actors, cinematography, PR and

marketing campaigns, and a few more new categories never awarded

before in Hollywood!

QUESTION: Such as.....?

DAN BLOOM: Wait for the CLIFFIES launch.

QUESTION: Who is funding the event? Sponsors? Venue? Where will the

CLiFFIES take place?

DAN BLOOM: Again, wait for the launch on mid February. This is big.

This is trending and this will reach a lot of important people in the

movie industry with a cli fi message for future years. That's our

goal. That's our premise. That was our starting point. The Cliffies

are not about glitz or glamor or movie stars. They are about the very

future of our planet. Hollywood has a big role to play and indie

movies, too.

QUESTION: Dan, you come across as a bit of an eccentric, a bit of a

maverick and a bit of a climate activist with a never give up

attitude. Who are you?

DAN BLOOM: All three. Take your pick. I answer to all of them. Mostly

I'm a lone wolf crying in the wilderness, shouting from the rooftops,

issuing some wake up calls, ringing some alarm bells, hopefully.

QUESTION: Do you think in all seriousness the media is going to pay

attention to this cockamamie idea of a cli fi movie awards event

dubbed the CLIFFIES when you yourself have zero street cred in

Hollywood, zero media visibility and zero sponsorships?

DAN BLOOM: I'm not worried. What will happen, will happen. Watch! This

is big. We're starting small, but there is a huge growth potential

here, and not about money or glitz. This is a very serious thing we

are curating.

QUESTION: Do you have have any background in the movie business? I

mean, what are you getting yourself in to?

DAN BLOOM: I know a few people in the movie industry, producers and

screenwriters. I've been around the film business all my life as a PR

guy. But this is not about Hollywood, this is about waking Hollywood

up. See?

QUESTION: I do believe you are a maverick, an eccentric,

and a lone wolf climate activist. Not many people would go out on a

limb and do what you are doing, without a parachute and without any

funding or sponsors.

DAN BLOOM: If you build it, they will come. I once interviewed Kevin

Costner during a press conference in Tokyo when I worked there as a

reporter and he came to town for DANCES WITH WOLVES. If you build it,

they will come. He taught me that! ''Field of Dreams''!

NOTE: Nominations for the CLIFFIES are still valid until last day of

December. Send suggestions and categories to:

TheCliffies2015@gmail.com