Okay, maybe that should read AT Blockbuster… And Rogers… And our good friends at Videomatica in Vancouver and… if you’re a video store carrying the movie — which hits all the best stores June 8th — please post below and steer people your way. You can also buy the DVD from our distributor, Kinosmith, and anywhere DVDs are sold.

And remember, this disc is loaded with special features and extras — writer/director commentary; a behind the scenes doc about the loggers on our shoot; a behind the scenes doc with some of our team (including Tricia Helfer, August Schellenberg, Scott McNeil, Donna Wong-Juliani and Jillian Fargey); two music videos by Local Anxiety (aka Mark Leiren-Young and Kevin Crofton) and a whole bunch of interviews with people talking trees.

We’ve also got a special educational kit for anyone who wants to teach this in schools. Be sure to contact Kinosmith for special classroom deals!

Are we there yet? Are we there now? Now are we there? Now?

For the last few years every time there was something new to do on The Green Chain I felt like a little kid on a road trip, with a bladder full of cola. Every time we turned another corner I kept thinking we have to be there NOW. But there was always something hiding around the corner — the colour correction, the blow-up to film, the post production for the DVD, the DVD extras that needed cutting and, in the case of The Green Chain Song music video, shooting, and, of course, tweaking the interviews for the podcast series. Then there was the completely unexpected spin-off… The Green Chain book.

Sometime last millennium, a husband and wife producing team optioned my screenplay, Blueprints from Space, and told me how special the project was to them. They explained that maybe, if they were lucky, they’d get to make a half dozen movies in their lives. They explained that movies don’t happen quickly and that they will always. always take more time than you could possibly imagine. Even though the movie was never made (and I am working on changing that), that conversation always stuck with me.

The script for The Green Chain was finished in 2004 and in the six years since Tony Wosk, Donna Wong-Juliani and I said, “hey, it’s only monologues, how hard can it be to shoot” my life — all our lives — have turned upside down and inside out.

But finally… finally… with the release of the DVD on June 8th… we’re there.

The wild thing is that I know the ride isn’t really over and hopefully never will be. The movie is still showing on TMN and Movie Central. We’re still waiting to find out if the movie sells to non-pay TV stations in Canada (tell your fave TV station they need us now), it’ll be on iTunes any second now and with luck it’ll show up on (legal) DVD and on other TV stations in the US and around the world. And every few weeks I get an email from somebody who has seen the movie, heard a podcast, or read the book talking about wanting to do their part to save our forests.

But I’m thinking that my work on The Green Chain is finally done until we have the budget to digitally revise it so that Greedo shoots first, Jabba enslaves Tricia Helfer and we replace all the chainsaws with cell phones.

The thing is… because I am getting those emails on a regular basis… and because the whole plan for this movie was to spark conversations about our forests… I’m going to try to post updates and calls for help about forestry and environmental issues from some of the groups that I think are making a difference. I’ll also keep you posted on my next big green projects — and there are a few in the works…

I’ll also keep you up to speed on Local Anxiety’s new cd, Greenpieces — featuring Tree Farm (closing song from The Green Chain) and our version of the opening tune, The Green Chain song. It’s already available on iTunes and through cdbaby.com.

And if other green team members want to send me updates on their adventures I’ll try to plug those here too.

If you’d like to stay tuned to any and all updates about the movie — and our forests — please click the RSS feed option on the blog site or join The Green Chain Gang on Facebook and to stay tuned to what I’m up to beyond my green life please join my new fan page on Facebook.

Yes, we are finally there and thank you all for sharing this unforgettable — and apparently neverending — ride.