The Elephant Parade is founded by father and son Mike and Marc Spits. With their project, they aim to raise attention for the Asian elephant, that is threatened with extinction. Their project has proven to be succesful: the first two editions of the Elephant Parade, held in Rotterdam and Antwerp, raised a total amount of over 700,000 euro. The benefits of the Elephant Parade are donated to the Elephant Family, the largest elephant charity in the world and was founded in 2002 by Mark Shand. He is a globetrotter, philantropist and writer and maker of the BBC documentary Queen of the Elephants.

Especially for the Elephant Parade Amsterdam, a tour is set out that will lead you along all the elephants that are located at several hotspots in the Amsterdam city centre: Museum Square, Spui, Westermarkt, Koningsplein, Kalvertoren.

If you’d like to take an elephant home but can’t afford the life-size model, replicas ranging from 4 inches to 30 inches tall will also be on sale in the city center.

The Elephant Parade in Amsterdam is running from 5 september – 31 oktober 2009.

The Elephant Parade will visit London from May to July 2010. Find more details at www.elephantparade.com

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The new zombie movie costed only $70 to make. The tiny budget was spent on a crowbar and a couple of tapes, and some tea and coffee to keep the zombies happy.

They managed to get 50 brilliantly made up zombies and stuff them into a living room, by advertising for volunteer zombies on social networking sites Facebook and Myspace and borrowing make-up from Hollywood blockbusters.

The end result is “Colin” a zombie film with a heart.

COLIN, is one of the first Zombie movies told entirely from a Zombie’s perspective. The hero Colin is bitten by a Zombie; he dies and returns from the dead. He is followed as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse.

Director Marc Price says he came up with the idea to make a no-budget film because he realized that he and his friends would never be able to get enough money to make even a low-budget film.

The British director is currently enjoying his success at Cannes with “Colin” the new zombie. Major Japanese and Hollywood distributors have shown great interest in the zombie movie and Zombie fan Web site zombiefriends.com called it “as original as [George] Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead”.

With the current economic climate it seems to be a great way to make movies.