By Tim Saunders on
Hollywood hunks Brad Pitt and George Clooney will kick off this year’s Venice film festival on Wednesday, August 27, with the world premiere of their latest film and a fundraising dinner for charity.
The dinner will benefit Not On Our Watch, the organization the pair founded to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur and emphasize global humanitarian issues. It is expected to attract a number of high profile guests, and will take place on August 26, the day before the festival opens. Clooney and Pitt will also appear at the premiere of their new crime comedy Burn After Reading, directed by 2008 Oscar-winning duo Joel and Ethan Coen and co-starring John Malkovitch and Tilda Swinton.
Brad Pitt is also happy to announce that a New Orleans company has been contracted to provide the solar panels for the first wave of new homes being constructed in his Make It Right campaign in the Hurricane Katrina-devastated Lower 9th Ward of the city.
“We are excited to have been selected by Make It Right New Orleans for this important residential project in New Orleans,” said Troy Von Otnott, president of South Coast Solar (SCS), the company who will provide the panels. “The utilization of solar power for these homes will enable these returning homeowners to live in more environmentally responsible homes that use less energy, which for the homeowners will translate into significantly lower energy bills.”
SCS was chosen following a nationwide call for interested companies to submit proposals. The company will also be the solar power consultant for the first Make It Right homes, and the first wave of installations is expected to be finished on August 29 – the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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