If You Love Your Children

I recently watched this movie in Los Angeles because I had heard a lot of good things about it from my friend. I think the whole message of the movie was amazing and the whole story line was very impressive - anything is possible if you try.

Climate Change is true, it is happening now but unfortunately there are so many of us who want to do something but in the end we don't do anything to lessens the effects of climate change. The Raj's determination to get published and satire portrayal of our society, business and people in general in this movie is quite impressive.

Incredible drama that hardly leaves anyone untouched. I thought this was a really great emotional movie and all the actors did amazing jobs pursuing their roles. If You Love Your Children is not 'just a movie' like you see every other day, it's a great film offering a strong emotional experience. I kept imagining myself in the heart-breaking situations the main character – Raj Camarta - had to go through. He is amazing personality with utmost strength and ability to overcome the unimaginable nightmares to succeed in the life.

In conclusion, this movie is an amazing movie which carries a strong message in it.

I was so hesitant to see IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN for one reason – I don't believe in Climate Change. But my friend and I had been hearing incredible reviews about this short film, so we decided to suck it up and see the movie at one of the film festivals and we were just blown away by how amazing the whole story was. The Raj (lead in the film) was just so incredibly heart warming and really reminded you of the important things such as honesty and integrity and doing and believing in what you think is the right thing to do in life. I was so touched by Raj's story, he was so determined, this movie makes you wanna go out and achieve your dreams and to never let anyone tell you what is right and what is wrong, what you can and cannot do.

This movie in every way possible is perfect, it was so brilliantly made and just so inspiring. I heard that IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN has won more than 10 awards and has been selected at 20 different festivals in less than 3 months time of its release in Aug-2014. I would highly recommend this short film! It was a beautiful film that makes you feel like you can achieve anything you truly put you heart too! PERIOD.

If You Love Your Children tells the story of Raj Camarta, an engineer working at the company called CPNG – a natural gas and coal based power plant located in Canada, struggles to write and publish a book. Raj Camarta has a great job and a beautiful wife but he is haunted by the loss of innocent people in a natural disaster fueled by climate change. In his desire to get published, he destroys his marriage, loses his home and his livelihood.

The essence of the story is, Raj Camarta (played by Edmonton based actor Steve Dhillon) begins a crusade to educate the world but faces a numbers of challenges in getting published. His wife Jessica (played by Calgary based actress Katy Doucette) is a materialistic person and she doesn't support Raj and thinks that he is wasting his time on such a silly subject of climate change, which is not even real. Jessica become seven more upsets when she comes across a pile of rejection letters from various publishers who has rejected Raj's manuscript. Raj's employer is not supportive either and Raj is getting fired from CPNG on the ground of recession after a communication manager of the CPNG watches Raj on one of the news channels discussing climate change and his upcoming book.

At the end of day, Raj becomes a best seller and epilogue reveals the most beautiful and emotional part of this beautiful short film. Sanjay Patel, director and producer of this film, is an engineer, works in the energy industry and has authored a book titled "the future of oil." Although his first time, Sanjay has done a wonderful job in bringing the beautiful story into life with the use of VFX and computer graphics shots in the film. Overall, very well done, an inspirational and heart touching film on such a controversial topic of climate change. I must say it is a MUST watch film for everyone.

Wow this is one of my favorite short films of all time because it tells the interesting story of an engineer named Raj Camarta (played by Steve Dhillon) who tries to become author so he can educate world on climate change. Director Sanjay Patel – he himself is an engineer and author - knows how to execute an inspiring story that deserved to be put on the big screen. Also all the actors give the best performance in the movie and deserve the recognition to bring such a complicated story of climate change into the life. This is a perfect short film for the whole family to watch. I admire entire cast & crew for their brilliant effort. Congratulations to team and I recommend everyone to watch. I watched it at one of the festivals but hopefully it is will be available on DVD later on.

This is a film about climate change - not the nuts and bolts of it - but the struggle we all face to do something to arrest our planet's slide into - well - hell...

IYLYC encourages us to learn more about what is happening in our world and do whatever we can to help.

It has beautifully realised characters, is funny at times and deeply touching.

I watched with some friends and everyone said they felt inspired to do something at the end of the film.

Save the planet - you can't have a better premise than that!