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C'mon, world, get happy!
SATURDAY is World Happy Day.
While that might sound like a fast-food chain's marketing gimmick, it's actually a documentary filmmaker's attempt to promote some global goodwill -- and his film.
Happy, a look at the spiritual and scientific underpinnings of that most sought-after and elusive emotion, will debut Feb. 11 with co-ordinated screenings around the world, including Winnipeg.
Roko Belic, 40, who earned a 1999 Academy Award nomination for his documentary Genghis Blues, spent six years travelling the globe, interviewing ordinary people and experts alike to discover the true causes of happiness.
One of the qualities happy people have in common, he discovered, is a sense of connectedness to their community. So rather than distribute the film through traditional channels, he turned its release into a grassroots group activity.
To date, World Happy Day has lined up more than 500 screenings in some 40 countries across six continents -- including one showing in Antarctica.
Winnipeg life coach Stephanie Staples says she decided to host a screening to "get people a little more excited about life," and to motivate them to take responsibility for their own attitude.
"The movie kind of hammers home the point that it's not the situations or things that we have or genetics that make us happy, it's the choices that we make," says Staples, who is calling Saturday's event Motivation, The Happy Movie and More.
"I just want people to have a few more ideas and tools to make their life a little better."
Happy will screen at Louis Riel Public Library (1168 Dakota St.) Saturday at 5 p.m. A meet-and-greet will be held at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 each. To reserve, go to www.YourLifeUnlimited.ca, scroll down to the link.
For more information about Belic's project, go to www.worldhappyday.com
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 9, 2012 D2
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