BEHIND THE LENS #483: Featuring Steve Mims, Brian Rodgers and Dan Allen

Behind The Lens

This is a fun week on BEHIND THE LENS as we're going back to nature and into the forest. That's right! It's back to nature this week as we take a look at a fantastically informative and entertaining short documentary that you can watch right now FOR FREE (and you all know how much I love FREE stuff) – CHARMIN WIPES OUT A FOREST. In my exclusive chat with writer/director/editor STEVE MIMS and producer BRIAN RODGERS, we delve into the making of this doc and Charmin toilet paper specifically. Then, get ready for director and editor DAN ALLEN, who joins me discussing his latest film from The Twisted Childhood Universe – BAMBI: THE RECKONING. Kicking things off with CHARMIN WIPES OUT A FOREST, who would have thought someone would make any film about toilet paper, let alone one about Charmin, the biggest-selling brand in the United States, accounting for 25% of the US toilet paper market today. Most of us remember the early ad campaigns for Charmin with Mr. Whipple and the unforgettable "Please, don't squeeze the Charmin". And for quite a few years now, we've been seeing multiple ads with the animated bear family using Charmin. But now, thanks to STEVE MIMS and BRIAN RODGERS, we find out the truth behind the toilet paper. CHARMIN WIPES OUT A FOREST is a comic in-depth exposé of the massive deforestation required to deliver the nation's most popular bath tissue. Although we are greeted with a comic opening to the doc, Steve and Brian deliver a shocking yet hopeful message to consumers. This is a big problem that manufacturer Procter & Gamble will never do anything about, but we as consumers can. Next, we go deep into the part of the forest that hasn't been cut down for toilet paper, with BAMBI: THE RECKONING. The official synopsis for BAMBI: THE RECKONING reads: "After a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated, grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother." Directed and edited by DAN ALLEN and written by Rhys Warrington based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel "Bambi Life in the Woods", the film maintains the original book's themes of family, love, and hardship, and has some added 21st-century subtext on the horrors of man towards nature. http://eliasentertainmentnetwork.com