By filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine Ten Bosch Reviewed by Karen Henry Hungry for Change is an intricate film with a simple message: The best way to lose weight and maintain vital health is through the juicing of fruits and vegetables. Produced in 2012, the 90-minute documentary features the tag line, “Your health is in [...]
The bright colors and complex themes of life are seen on screen at the 11th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. The event runs this week through Sunday, April 14 at the flagship Arclight multiplex in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard. Featuring diverse movies from Indian filmmakers, the festival showcases feature films, shorts, and [...]
If you have been to a farmers’ market in Los Angeles, shopped at Ralphs or Food4Less, or even been through the terminal 4 at LAX, you’ve probably seen Homegirl or Homeboy cafés and sauces -- both enterprises of Homeboy Industries. The backstory of the remarkable rise of the Father Greg Boyle’s Homeboy Industries is detailed [...]
The Happy Poet by Paul Gordon The Happy Poet is a slacker success story with a vegetarian twist. Written and directed by, and starring Paul Gordon, the film follows a novice health-food chef, in a story that may reflect the birth of many vegetarian gourmet cafes. As the film opens, Bill no longer has a [...]
Doing the 'Dance The Sundance Film Festival is held every January in Park City, Utah over a span of 10 days. Even though 118 films were screened in seven venues in Park City this year, it was still difficult to buy a movie ticket in advance. Although it was possible to purchase a limited amount [...]
Happy Fest, Doing the 'Dance Everyone was happy at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, this year. The sun shone brightly for the first eight days, while the moon in turn brightened each and every clear crisp star-filled night. Filmmakers, festivalgoers, volunteers, celebrities, and musicians were all smiling and convivial. Filmmakers were thrilled [...]
LA YOGA Magazine was one of the sponsors of the healthy oasis The Zen Den at the Sundance Film Festival. The Zen Den has been building buzz throughout the first week of the festival as celebrities and filmmakers have been dropping by for healing treatments, yoga classes, healthy snacks, copies of LA YOGA Magazine, happy [...]
For a documentary that flashes tweets throughout and premiered tonight with a live Skype video Q&A with one of the Russian stars, the subject matter covers an amazingly anachronistic contemporary witch hunt. Pussy Riot—A Punk Prayer begins in February 2012 when a group of twenty-something Moscowite girls invade a cathedral to perform an anti-church/anti-Putin punk [...]
LA YOGA Magazine will have a presence this year at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The prestigious 10-day independent film festival runs from January 17-27 in Park City, Utah. With 46,731 attendees in 2012, it is one of the largest independent film festivals in the United States. Sundance provides year-round creative and financial support for [...]
Tony Hawk, the man/child legend of skateboarding from Southern California has spent 10 years running his nonprofit organization, the Tony Hawk Foundation, which builds free skateparks for at-risk youth in low-income communities. They have built more than 500 parks throughout every state in the nation, as well as supported international skate programs such as Skateistan* [...]