Awake: The Life of Yoganada has released a companion book with rare images, quotes, and interviews from the inspirational film. More than a year after its theatrical release, the record-breaking film Awake: The Life of Yogananda is available on DVD (it is currently the top documentary on Amazon) and has just been released on Netflix, [...]
Reflections on a Film with a Powerful Story to Tell By Elissa Harris Actor Sean Penn introduced the film India’s Daughter at the screening I attended. He likened watching the provocative film to getting an MRI: an uncomfortable but sometimes necessary diagnostic technique. British filmmaker Leslee Udwin decided to make India’s Daughter while watching [...]
Realized by Laurie Anderson As America’s best-known experimental performance artist, Laurie Anderson has made her mark in many forms of media: multimedia stage performances, seven books, multiple studio albums and soundtracks, visual art museum installations. And, yes, filmmaking. Laurie’s meditative nonfiction film, Heart of a Dog, is an impressionistic musing on love, life, and death reinforced by evocative [...]
'The Answer': Seeking Truth at the Awareness Film Festival 'The Answer' will play at The Awareness Film Festival on Sept. 20 at 12 p.m. It’s been an inspiring and awakening week for many at the Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles. The festival opened September 10 and has drawn hundreds to see powerful [...]
Radicalize Director Sam Slovick Talks Skid Row and Kriya Yoga LA YOGA: Where did the initial call come from to direct the documentary Radicalize and follow the group of people catalyzing the Occupy Movement? Sam Slovick: I was working as a journalist in LA in October 2011 and I had a couple columns in [...]
Roger Allers celebrates the human spirit in his animated feature film, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Some of my all-time favorite films are animated features. A new film has been added to my list. One of literature’s most beloved works (it has sold more than 100 million copies in 40 languages), Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, has [...]
What happens to a brilliant child who is entirely misunderstood by his parents? What changes inside of us when our dreams are disregarded and our potential underestimated? These are some of the questions addressed in the new film about beloved author Paulo Coelho (who famously penned The Alchemist and a long list of other best-sellers). [...]
The Revolution to Save the Humans Beautifully shot and edited, Revolution is a remarkable documentary by Director Rob Stewart. The message is the necessary personal and global transformation that must occur if we are to secure our future as a species on this planet. Revolution details Stewart’s journey into ocean conservationism over a period [...]
The Fourth Noble Truth is a romantic comedy about the choice to find freedom from suffering found in the right actions of the eightfold path. Directed by Gary T McDonald Produced by David Zuckerman Starring Harry Hamlin and Kristen Kerr The melodic chiming of a meditation bowl: It is a familiar sound for practitioners of [...]
Counterpoint Films LA Theatrical Release: October 17 Awake: The Life of Yogananda is a feature-length documentary about Swami Paramahansa Yogananda, the iconic Indian saint and teacher known for Autobiography of a Yogi. Through first-person narrative, powerful reenactments, archival footage, colorful cinematographic metaphors, an evocative soundtrack by Michael Mollura and Vivek Maddala, chants sung by Krishna [...]