It’s one thing to make a movie about the environment, but actor/producer/writer Leonardo DiCaprio has gone a step further with the DVD release of his film The 11th Hour:

Continuing his tight relationship with eco-organization Global Green USA, Leonardo DiCaprio is setting aside a portion of the profits from The 11th Hour DVD for the charity. The packaging — as expected — for the DVD will also be completely biodegradable (no wildflower seeds?) and produced with “100% certified renewable resources”. If you want to be even more eco-friendly, the movie will additionally be available via on-demand cable the same day it’s released to stores. [ecorazzi]

A biodegradable DVD? Woah, that’s pretty cool! Not to mention that you can pre-order the DVD for only 5 dollars!

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Ken Loach’s latest film, It’s a Free World premiered in Brooklyn last week and is now available On Demand on IFC’s Festival Direct. The director takes us from the world of The Wind That Shakes the Barley to a different time and place, present day London, to explore the world of foreign labor - legal and illegal.

Our companion on this journey is Angie (Kierston Wareing) a single mom who is trying to overcome being wrongly fired by a recruitment agency. The recruiting she had been doing was of workers from Eastern Europe to crappy, low paying jobs in London. Upon her termination Angie decides she can run her own recruiting business and after convincing her housemate Rose to help her, Angie is out on a motorbike trying to draw up contracts with local factories. Most of the men she tries to get deals with warn her of the dark side of this world, but as we get to know Angie, we realize that a warning could never stop her.

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