Filmed in five countries, this documentary offers a rare glimpse inside the new religious communities that are sweeping across Africa. Led by living prophet-healers who interpret Christianity in the light of pre-Christian traditions, these “spirit-based” communities could be “an historical…
This film was created as an educational tool that can be used to move us beyond disempowerment, in order to enact real change in a changing world. Chris Wood of BALE (Building A Local Economy) was inspired to create a film that would answer the question: “Will we have the wisdom to survive climate…
What is the “natural organic connection between coffee farmers, coffee drinkers, and birds”? Why do we need a wake-up call? Part One of this documentary explores the “coffee crisis” and its devastating effects on migratory songbirds, rainforest ecosystems, and 25 million coffee…
Julie Harris, Richard Kiley, Hume Cronyn, and James Earl Jones are a delight as they recite poetry about aging and talk about what getting old is like for them. Artists Frederick and Claske Franck, opera singer Shirley Verrett, ninety-year-old photographer Leni Sonnenfeld, and Buddhist nun Pema Chodron…
This video documents a group of senior citizens in Galveston, Texas, who gather twice a month to “re-member” their lives through poems and stories. We come to know and love these ordinary people who become elder guides for us. With honesty and poignancy, they model the art of accepting the…
In sub Saharan Africa, AIDS is wiping out a generation of parents, leaving 13 million orphans behind. Many of the grandmothers, impoverished by the epidemic, have rescued these children from the streets and are struggling to raise them. A similar thing is happening in cities all across America. AIDS,…
Originally broadcast on ABC-TV as a special presentation, this documentary journey across America takes us on the spiritual paths of people who feel the pinch of just being alive–people committed to a more complete understanding of themselves in relation to the larger mystery of being, whether…
In this film, six women—two Jews, two Muslims, and two Christians—challenge current justifications of war as a righteous undertaking. They remind us that the great monotheisms teach peace rather than violence. In explaining how their own work in the world is inspired by their faith traditions,…
Humorous, tender, and generous in spirit, this affectionate biography of Janie Spahr and her family is laid out against the background of our deep cultural prejudices. It proves that acceptance and love trump alienation and intolerance any day. This honest portrait of a family’s journey of acceptance…
Maybe We’re Talking About A Different God is the story of the Reverend Jane Adams Spahr, a Presbyterian minister and a lesbian, who was called to serve as pastor of a large metropolitan church in Rochester, New York. Although ninety percent of the congregation voted to approve her as their minister,…
This documentary portrays five women—a painter, a writer, a performance artist, a teacher, and a massage therapist—who use their arts to heal the split between sexuality and spirituality as they struggle with being openly (and joyously) lesbian. In warning us to “beware of Eve the…
Arms for the Poor goes beyond politics and economics to ask whether the arms trade might be killing America’s national soul. While the poor need housing, education, and health care, U.S. taxpayers support an already-immense military budget that is growing larger deal by deal. The film presents…
