Unveiled Views

Synopsis: What�s life really like for women in the Islamic world? To
what extent is our opinion of them based on Western prejudice? The
author of this film hitchhiked from Barcelona to Pakistan and
portrayed the life of five remarkable women who challenge conventional
stereotypes. Alma clears landmines in Bosnia while Eren fights for
human rights in Turkey. In contrast, the Iranian director, Rakhshan;
Pakistani dancer, Nahid, and Moshgan, a poet from Afghanistan, all use
art to express their viewpoints.

Director: Alba Sotorra Clua

Click to watch online in �Humanity Explored� online film festival:

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1922/Unveiled-Views

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Shame : a film from Pakistan on honor killing

Synopsis: Call the people ignorant. Savages. Violent. Animals with two
feet. Whatever we want to call the people that kill for �honor�, we
must always realize that it still happens. That no matter what we call
them, or what we do, 5000 women yearly are still getting killed for
�honor�.

"Shame" is part of the honor killing awareness-raising campaign in
rural Sindh and southern Punjab. The directors take to the road,
documenting shocking interviews that uncover a deep-rooted gender bias
in rural Pakistan as well as the first ever footage of a karion jo
qabristan, an unmarked graveyard where victims of honor killing are
buried without any ritual.

Director: Sharjil Baloch

Click to watch online in �Humanity Explored� online film festival:

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/800/Shame

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Yeti (Olympic Version)

YETI The mighty Himalayan man, is a myth now.

Tibet was a country the size of Western Europe when it was invaded by
China in 1950. Since the Chinese occupation began, large portions of
the country have been absorbed into provinces of the People�s Republic
of China. Tibet�s culture, religion and resources have been under
systematic assault by the Communist Chinese government for decades.
During this time, 6000 Buddhist monasteries were destroyed along with
the centuries of knowledge they contained and hundreds of thousands of
Tibetans have been executed, imprisoned and tortured for the �crime�
of not wanting to be Chinese.

YETI is a film set in the backdrop of Mcleodganj, which is the Tibetan
capital in exile and is called "the little Lhasa of India".

YETI shows you how Tibetans had looked at the Olympic Games in Beijing
as their best chance in 49 years, when the international media is
closely following the happenings in China where the human rights
situation is at its worst. It�s a provoking visual documentary on
Tibet, Tibetans and the worst possible steps they might resort to,
such as self sacrificing monks blowing themselves up just for the sake
of freedom and peace.

Director: Akhil Bali

Click to watch online in �Humanity Explored� online film festival:

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1398/Yeti--Olympic-Version

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Dear friends,

This is a call for the film festival online - �Spirit Enlightened� (to
be live from December 09 to July 10), for which we seek your
participation.

�Spirit Enlightened�, aspires to trace the spirit that has led the
humanity through centuries & civilizations and is in the making of our
future. The festival hopes to explore with you, �That� which envelops
to infuse & evolve the individual as well as collective being, expands
our vision of time as well as place, enlivens our hearts, and
enlightens our species to transcend the present state of being for the
mystical new � the next state of supramental self.

We are inviting films on :
- Evolution of Consciousness
- Spirituality
- Culture of Religion
- Enlightened Leaders
- Philosophies & Politics
- Timeless Creative Expressions

SUBMISSION PROCESS :

For participation kindly fill the online form and send us the
film/DVD. Multiple entries are welcome. Fill the individual form for
each film.

To submit the form, please visit:
   http://www.cultureunplugged.com/festival/submit.php


Last date for receiving the film is 1st week of November, 2009

REWARDS :
PEOPLE'S CHOICE (Most Viewed) :        $3000
POPULAR (Runner Up) :                  $1000
VIRAL (Most Shared/Linked) :           $1000
UNDISCOVERED (Must View) :             $1000
FILM-MAKER'S CHOICE (Best Art) :       $3000

Multiple submissions welcome.

FESTIVAL PROMOTERS & PARTNERS :
Barrie Osborne (Producer, New Zealand, 7 times - Oscar winner)
Michael Peyser (Producer, Film Executive, and/or Professor of
Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California)
Shekhar Kapoor (Film-maker/Director, India, Oscar Nominated 2007)
Sabyesachi Bharti
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Dear friends,

This is a call for the film festival online - �Spirit Enlightened� (to
be live from December 09 to July 10), for which we seek your
participation.

�Spirit Enlightened�, aspires to trace the spirit that has led the
humanity through centuries & civilizations and is in the making of our
future. The festival hopes to explore with you, �That� which envelops
to infuse & evolve the individual as well as collective being, expands
our vision of time as well as place, enlivens our hearts, and
enlightens our species to transcend the present state of being for the
mystical new � the next state of supramental self.

We are inviting films on :
- Evolution of Consciousness
- Spirituality
- Culture of Religion
- Enlightened Leaders
- Philosophies & Politics
- Timeless Creative Expressions

SUBMISSION PROCESS :

For participation kindly fill the online form and send us the
film/DVD. Multiple entries are welcome. Fill the individual form for
each film.

To submit the form, please visit:
   http://www.cultureunplugged.com/festival/submit.php


Last date for receiving the film is 1st week of November, 2009

REWARDS :
PEOPLE'S CHOICE (Most Viewed) :        $3000
POPULAR (Runner Up) :                  $1000
VIRAL (Most Shared/Linked) :           $1000
UNDISCOVERED (Must View) :             $1000
FILM-MAKER'S CHOICE (Best Art) :       $3000

Multiple submissions welcome.

FESTIVAL PROMOTERS & PARTNERS :
Barrie Osborne (Producer, New Zealand, 7 times - Oscar winner)
Michael Peyser (Producer, Film Executive, and/or Professor of
Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California)
Shekhar Kapoor (Film-maker/Director, India, Oscar Nominated 2007)

Sabyesachi Bharti
Culture Unplugged Studios
studio.cultureunplugged.com
India | USA I UK | New Zealand
+91 020 65002520
+91 976 539 1242
"promote films. promote consciousness"



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Dear friends,

This is a call for the film festival online - �Spirit Enlightened� (to
be live from December 09 to July 10), for which we seek your
participation.

�Spirit Enlightened�, aspires to trace the spirit that has led the
humanity through centuries & civilizations and is in the making of our
future. The festival hopes to explore with you, �That� which envelops
to infuse & evolve the individual as well as collective being, expands
our vision of time as well as place, enlivens our hearts, and
enlightens our species to transcend the present state of being for the
mystical new � the next state of supramental self.

We are inviting films on :
- Evolution of Consciousness
- Spirituality
- Culture of Religion
- Enlightened Leaders
- Philosophies & Politics
- Timeless Creative Expressions

SUBMISSION PROCESS :

For participation kindly fill the online form and send us the
film/DVD. Multiple entries are welcome. Fill the individual form for
each film.

To submit the form, please visit:
   http://www.cultureunplugged.com/festival/submit.php


Last date for receiving the film is 1st week of November, 2009

REWARDS :
PEOPLE'S CHOICE (Most Viewed) :        $3000
POPULAR (Runner Up) :                  $1000
VIRAL (Most Shared/Linked) :           $1000
UNDISCOVERED (Must View) :             $1000
FILM-MAKER'S CHOICE (Best Art) :       $3000

Multiple submissions welcome.

FESTIVAL PROMOTERS & PARTNERS :
Barrie Osborne (Producer, New Zealand, 7 times - Oscar winner)
Michael Peyser (Producer, Film Executive, and/or Professor of
Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California)
Shekhar Kapoor (Film-maker/Director, India, Oscar Nominated 2007)

Sabyesachi Bharti
Culture Unplugged Studios
studio.cultureunplugged.com
India | USA I UK | New Zealand
+91 020 65002520
+91 976 539 1242
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�Like Leaves in a Storm� : Blood, sweat and tea, they should never be
associated.

Synopsis:

With each morning cuppa of tea, think of how much each tea leaf
affects the lives of the thousands of tea workers in India. in
reality, tea has much more agony and life/death implications for those
cultivating it than we might EVER imagine.  Blood, sweat and tea, they
should never be associated.

�Everyday we donate one ounce of blood to the leeches to make this
blood we need to eat, but we don't have any money to buy the food
because we haven't got any salary for last 8 to 9 years�- a tea
plantation worker from India.

   A documentary on hardships and the effect of globalization on tea
garden workers in India. The continuous hardships, forced alienation
and marginalization of this community is a matter of grave concern.

Director: K.P. Sasi

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festival:

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2069/Like-Leaves-in-a-Storm

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Donkey Caravan to Timbuktu : An Ubuntu Documentary

�A 900 kilometer journey across Sahara Desert�

Synopsis:

'It has been a tough trip, but we returned to Timbuktu with 39
donkeys', says Al Mouktar, chief of a Tuareg tribe near Timbuktu. Due
to three droughts and the civil war this tribe lost all of their
animals.  A Tuareg tribe in Bouressa, 900 kilometers up north, heard
of their problems and offered Al Mouktar its surplus of donkeys.

Before set off Al Mouktar, Al Joumarat, Al Kou and Achmed have to
chase the donkeys. After three days they have caught 39 of them and
set for Timbuktu. For 25 days they lead the herd across the never
ending plains, through sandstorms, across sand dunes, along a track
where they can find enough water.

Director: Mark Aardenburg

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festival:

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1646

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�In Iran with gender discrimination how do they allow a women bus
driver? I am surprised, this is rare in our society. I don't know how
they decided to give permission: an Iranian lady.�

Feminine, Masculine
�a resistance to injustice regarding women in the Iranian society�


In the male dominated society of Iran, Farahnaz Shiri, the first
female bus driver in Tehran, has made her own little society in her bus.

In Iran there are different sections for men and women on public
buses. Women should enter buses from the back door, which is separated
from men�s entrance, and should sit or stay in a limited zone at the
end of the buses which is separated from men�s zone.

But in Mrs. Shiri�s bus everything is vice-versa. She is the governor
and the only law maker of her own little society. In her bus, men must
enter from the backdoor entrance and must sit or stay in the limited
zone at the end of the bus.

Mrs. Shiri is struggling to prove herself in this society and
resisting a series of injustices that she faces as a woman in the
Iranian society.

Director: Sadaf Foroughi

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http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1709/Feminine--Masculine

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Nine out of 10 children living with HIV/AIDS and eight out of every 10
children who have lost parents to AIDS live in Africa. (AVERT)

In 2006, 530,000 children under 15 were infected with HIV. That�s more
than 1,450 every day. (Global AIDS Alliance)

Every minute, one child under age 15 dies from AIDS or an AIDS-related
illness. (UNICEF)

I Promise Africa
a film that will make you cry

Synopsis: While making a documentary about orphans, a filmmaker
preserves the voices of a generation that will soon be silenced. The
innocence of the children and their heart rending voice is are so
touching, will they be able to sustain life for a long time!

Director: Jerry Henry

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festival:

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1362/I-Promise-Africa

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Hope Dies Last in War

Director: Supriyo Sen

�it is a saga of their individual and collective struggle, spanning three
generations, to get their men back: Dr. Shoma A Chatterji�


An intermittently eye-opening, personal film revolves around a group of POWs
that are often overlooked, if not outright forgotten, overshadowed by more
high-profile or current soldiers in the same situation.

Supriyo Sen's POW documentary "Hope Dies Last in War" focuses on a single,
incredible fact: The two-week Indo-Pakistani conflict of 1971 left dozens of
Indian prisoners of war unaccounted for and presumed to be in Pakistani
detention.

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Close to 160,000 Indian farmers committed suicide in ten years official data
show and nearly two thirds of these deaths are concentrated in five States i.e.
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh (including Chattisgarh)
and Kerala : P Sainath (winner of the Ramon Magsaysay award for journalism,
literature, and creative communication arts, 2007)

Where Farmers Fear

Synopsis: In last 10 years 160,000 farmers have committed suicide in India due
to agriculture policy designed by Govt. of India. Actually this is a story of
betrayal ship as our govt. is intoxicated with their dreams of making the cities
high-tech. As usual farmers are paying the price for this urbanization. The film
is a journey towards crux of the problem.

Director: Chandan Bhaduri

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http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1418/Where-Farmers-Fear

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It is unclear how many Afghan women use opium, but a 2005 addiction survey by
the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) put the number of adult female drug
users in the country at 120,000. At least 900,000 Afghans were estimated to be
drug addicts out of a population of 25 million in 2005.

Afghanistan has become by far the world's main opium producer, with a share of
world supplies that increased from 42% in 1990 to 87% in 2005.

Over the 2000-04 period, and despite adverse weather, yields in Afghanistan were
more than twice those in Latin America, more than three times those in Myanmar,
and more than four times those in other Asian countries.

Gol Pary
a shockingly true film

Synopsis: Gol Pary is the harrowing story of a 12-year-old girl heroin addict
living in the alleys of Kabul. It is the reflection of our society where access
to resources are so sparse, and how lack of awareness oppresses the
marginalized. Their almost invisible support system makes the whole situation an
abyss.


Director: Mustafa Kia

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http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1353/Gol-Pary

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Winners of �Humanity Explored� Online Film Festival, 2009


PEOPLE'S CHOICE (Most Viewed) : $3000
Prayers Answered : Director: Galek Palsang/United States
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1591/Prayers-Answered


POPULAR (Runner Up) : $1000
Renita Renita : Director: Tonny Trimarsanto/Indonesia
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1057/Renita-Renita/


VIRAL (Most Shared/Linked) : $1000
Dying Symphony : Director: Rana Akmal/Pakistan
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2146/Dying-Symphony


UNDISCOVERED (Must View) : $1000
Think Peace: Portrait of a 21st Century Movement : Director: Corey
Ogilvie/Canada
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1295/Think-Peace--Portrait-of-a-21st-Centur\
y-Movement


FILM-MAKER'S CHOICE (Best ART) : $3000
Hummingbird : Director: Holly Mosher/United States
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1568/Hummingbird


Festival Panel for Filmmaker's Choice Reward

* Hadi Ghaemi, Iran
(Director of International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran)

* Raji Sourani, Palestine
(Director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Joint Laureate, Robert
F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Human Rights)

* Asma Jahangir, Pakistan
(Leading lawyer, human rights activist and winner of the Ramon Magsaysay award
for "greatness of spirit shown in service of the people")

* Edna Adan Ismail, Somaliland, Africa
(Former First Lady and former Foreign Minister of Somaliland)

* Nandita Das, India
(Award-winning Indian film actress and independent film-maker)

* Kim Spencer, USA
(Award-winning film-maker and President of Link TV)


* Barrie Osborne, New Zealand
(Producer, 7 times - Oscar winner)

* Michael Peyser, USA
(Producer, Film Executive and Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of
Southern California)

***

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The Imam and The Pastor: a story of forgiveness.

Imam Ashafa and Pastor Wuye led opposing militias in Northern Nigeria. Now the
two men work together bridging religious conflicts that have killed thousands.

In recent decades, tens of thousands of Nigerians have been killed in communal
clashes between Christians and Muslims.

  "We formed a militia to protect our people". states Pastor Wuye. "My hate for
the Muslims then had no limits". The victims of his militia included Imam
Ashafa's spiritual leader and two cousins.

The Imam spent three years planning revenge. Then one day, a sermon on
forgiveness changed his life. The two men met and "gradually the relationship
began to grow". They played a leading role in negotiating a historic peace
accord. As Imam Ashafa explains, "even though we differ in some theological
issues, we will make the world a safer place".

Director: Alan Channer


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"Lunch with Bokara - Zen and the Art of African Initiation"

Joan Halifax, Buddhist teacher, author of "Shamanic Voices" and abbot of Upaya
Zen Monastery in Santa Fe, talks about initiation with African shaman, healer
and diviner Malidoma Some, author of "Of Water and Spirit". In this program, we
discover the secrets of an African initiation and the power of Buddhist vows
with two people who walk between the worlds of East and West, of magic and
meditation.

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festival to elevate the planet's consciousness, the philosophy of Ubuntu.

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2467/

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Chalo Hamara Des: Journeys with Kabir & Friends (Come to My Country)

Stories of two people from two very different countries, Indian folk singer
Prahlad Tipanya and North American scholar Linda Hess and their journey in
search of the �des� (country) invoked in the poetry of the 15th century mystic
poet of north India - Kabir.

Where is Kabir�s country? The answer is elusive, as they journey through song
and poem into these two lives, brought together in an unlikely friendship by the
cross-cultural resonance of Kabir.

Director: Shabnam Virmani

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http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2832


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"Lunch with Bokara - Myths, Money and Meaning"

Director: Stephen Olsson

Synopsis: Myths inspire our very actions and give each of us a sense of meaning,
both in our individual lives and in our culture and society as a whole.

Myths are no joking matter. Myths inspire our very actions and give each of us a
sense of meaning, both in our individual lives and in the lives of our culture
and society as a whole. In this program, philosopher and author Jacob Needleman,
and anthropologist Angeles Arrien join Bokara for an exploration the myths
surrounding money, time and meaning in society today.

In this lively discussion, several other core myths, including consumption,
pleasure and happiness are discussed and contrasted with the dominant myths of
America's founding fathers, as well as the dominant myths that operate in other
cultures.

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festival to elevate the planet's consciousness, the philosophy of Ubuntu.

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2471

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The Mawlawi Order, or the Mevlevilik or Mevleviye (Persian: مولويه -
Mowlawīya) are a Sufi order founded in Konya (in present-day Turkey) by the
followers of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet,
Islamic jurist, and theologian.

“Give Me Your Love”

a film by  Nameera Ahmed

Synopsis: "Give Me Your Love" is a short documentary that explores the role of
music, especially the reed-flute, in the lives of the contemporary spiritual
followers of the 13th-century Persian Sufi poet-mystic Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi.
This group in Turkey, called the Mevlevi Sufis, is most popularly identified
internationally as the "Whirling Dervishes". Rumi referred to the making and
playing of the reed-flute in his poetry, as a metaphor for the training and
subsequent transformation of the human spirit. This poetic symbolism still holds
power for the Sufis, who reveal their central connection to the reed-flute in
this film where the players are individuals actively engaged in the production,
performance and perpetuation of the Mevlevi music tradition. The viewer gets a
taste of their world, of their philosophy and beliefs, and their journey of love
explored through the "Sema" or "Audition", through the theme of the sublime and
the mundane.



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Call for the Film Festival Online �We Speak, Here...�

ABOUT CULTURE UNPLUGGED STUDIOS:

Culture Unplugged Studios is a global, new age, new media studio focused on
enabling networks of socially & spiritually conscious content & its creators,
with operations in India, USA, UK and New Zealand. To learn more about Culture
Unplugged Studios, kindly visit:                   
http://studio.cultureunplugged.com or http://www.cultureunplugged.com/.

FESTIVAL DETAILS:

�"We Speak, Here..." aspires to bring intimate stories about/from the life of an
individual � a personal anecdote on observing, waking, healing or transforming
the self � the myriad expressions, dark & light, of human mind, body & soul, as
a response to life within & without. The festival hopes to inspire us all to
reflect on human life & its journey so far, and search for our individual
purpose that can guide the legend we are to create & contribute to our humanity.
We request to share that personal film/story to �we� wishing to know you, him or
her as �me�.

With this effort, we wish to align with individual film-makers as well as
independent film producers or other social organizations/institutions who wish
to disseminate special stories/film-projects, designed for a specific mission
that is tuned with our festival focus.

We believe independent cinema carries the authentic voice and vision that needs
to be shared and delivered to a seeking and eager community worldwide. Culture
Unplugged is establishing the infrastructure necessary for this. To get there,
we wish to establish a meaningful partnership with the film-making community �
the harbingers of cultural transformation.

To submit your film for our festival, please review the following information:

CRITERIA:
1) Films on: Personal relationships, personal viewpoints/vision on relationships
& family structures of the future, documented case-studies of expressive art
therapy, individuals' physical/mental health challenges, life experienced
through or above it and stories of recoveries.

2) Any form: Shorts (less than 15 minutes) Short Features (up to 60 minutes)
Full Feature (up to 180 minutes) + Mobifilms (up to 3 minutes)

3) Film projects which are open to non-exclusive distribution (online and /or
broadcast worldwide).

4) Films which are in English or suitably sub-titled in English (films
originally produced in regional languages are welcome).

Multiple submissions welcome.

SUBMISSION PROCESS:
We are accepting films produced from year 2000 and onwards.

For participation, kindly complete our online form and post the DVD(s) of your
film(s). Multiple entries are welcome. Please complete the online form for each
film you send us.
To submit the online form, please visit:
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/festival/submit.php.

For sending us your film(s), our office addresses are as follows. Please post
DVDs to the address below which is most convenient for you:

Asia:
Culture Unplugged Studios
Clover Centrum, 2nd Floor,
Galaxy Society, Plot No.5,
Boat Club Road,
Pune 411001.
Maharashtra, India

America:
Culture Unplugged Studios
c/o LINK TV
P.O. Box 2008,
San Francisco, CA 94126.
USA

Pacific:
Culture Unplugged Studios
P.O. Box 21077,
Henderson, Auckland.
New Zealand

Last date for receiving film(s) is 7th May, 2010.

AWARDS/REWARDS:
PEOPLE'S CHOICE (Most Viewed) : $3000
POPULAR (Runner Up) : $1000
VIRAL (Most Shared/Linked) : $1000
UNDISCOVERED (Must View) : $1000
FILM-MAKER'S CHOICE (Best Art) : $3000

FESTIVAL LAUNCH DATE : JUNE, 2010

FESTIVAL PROMOTERS & PARTNERS (Past and Present) :

Individuals:
Barrie Osborne (Producer, New Zealand, 7 times - Oscar winner)
Michael Peyser (Producer, Film Executive, and/or Professor of Cinematic Arts at
the University of Southern California)
Shekhar Kapoor (Film-maker/Director, India, Oscar Nominated 2007)

Organizations:
International organizations such as Link TV, Globaloneness Project, IRIN,  NDTV,
MTV EXIT, and USAID are our core partners. Other partners include UNDP, Nobelity
Project, Art for The World, WWF (India), MINUSTAH, UNICEF (Hait), Pop!Tech
Institute, TERI,  University of Michigan, The Aspen Institute, UNODC, UN.GIFT,
ILO, PSBT, SPARROW, FAO, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 
Inter-news Europe, Reel Works(UK) & STEPS International (South Africa) etc.

If you participate in this festival, you will be contacted shortly prior to the
launch. Post festival, most of the content is digitally archived, with the
permission of the producer, with intention to promote transformative films and
its film-makers on global level. With this venue we intend to create an open &
transparent system for film-makers and facilitate dialogue among them, their
audiences and other professionals to fertilize social consciousness.
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Hi,
I am writer/producer based in California. I have  written books but I had
recently published a paper on film and social change ( link is at bottom), which
was well received. As a follow on to that, Culture wars has published my Paper
on "Muslim Cinema and Top 101 Muslim Theme Films. It's a first.
http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/muslim_cinema_an_introducti\
on/

With all the chaos going on in the world I think this an opportunity to build
bridges of understanding. This paper is the result of two years of research,
that I initiated (I am not affiliated with any organization, other than founding
MyFavoriteReview.com)
See press release below for more details.

See press release below. If you can please send a short note to the editor Dolan
Cummings at
DolanCummings@..., just to thank him for publishing and or
about content I would appreciate it.

Also feel free to share with friends, family and anyone who may appreciate this.
thanks a mil
javed


Advance Release





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MyFavoriteReview.com publishes Muslim Cinema and Top 101 Muslim-theme films for
World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film



SAN FRANCISCO � March 15, 2010.





To celebrate the World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
MyFavoriteReview.com has published a first ever paper on a newly defined term,
Muslim Cinema. The observance of the day should contribute to a better
understanding of the diversity in Muslim culture, in initiating dialogue with
people of other faiths, resulting in more just and peaceful world.



There are many ways to implement these ideals and media through film plays a
critical role in building awareness in society. To both celebrate and recognize
this unique event, the esteemed site CultureWars.org has published a paper on
the subject titled Muslim Cinema: An Introduction.



Muslim Cinema is defined as "a film movement by or about Muslims." Films from
both Muslim majority countries like Iran, Egypt, and Turkey as well as from
where Muslims are a minority in Hollywood or Bollywood were considered.   From
these the Top 101 Muslim Theme Films" which show some positive aspect of Muslim
culture and context were compiled



The paper can be found at the following link.

http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/muslim_cinema_an_introducti\
on/





A  pdf copy can be downloaded from

http://www.scribd.com/doc/27999091/Muslim-Cinema-An-Introduction-and-the-Top-101\
-Muslim-Theme-Films





"Javed Mohammed has provided an excellent introduction into Muslim Theme Films
that is sorely needed today," said Dr. Gerald Grudzen of San Jose State
University Global Studies.

This essay provides a multi-cultural perspective to explore the cultural
dimension of Islam."



"We are very proud to be a part of World Day of Muslim Culture. Great films
offer not only entertainment but help build awareness," said Javed Mohammed
founder and editor of MyFavoriteReview.com, "It is gratifying to see that this
work of labor and love for the last two years on searching the DVD libraries of
the San Francisco bay area for Muslim-theme films has finally born results."



Filmmakers are one of the social conduits reflecting and commenting about
society and the times. Good films can raise awareness and be a start to
addressing local and global issues.  They can educate about cultures, and give a
broader political, religious, or social context. They can dispel long-held
misconceptions as well as be a catalyst for social change.



About MyFavoriteReview

MyFavoriteReview is an online review site of socially conscious films and books.
The site reviews include reviews by any producer or publisher but primarily
cover independent and international films and books that help to entertain,
engage and educate. More details can be found at www.MyFavoriteReview.com





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Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Poland, where more than one million
people, nearly all of them European Jews, were exterminated by the Nazis. Why
would someone participate in such a retreat? How could anyone attempt to pray or
meditate in such a place?


In Spite of Darkness: A Spiritual Encounter with Auschwitz

  Directoed by Christof Wolf

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The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

To the degree that one artist can bring out the best in another, Nijinsky is an
inspired masterpiece. Australian director Paul Cox has not fashioned a biography
of Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1880-1950), nor is this a
comprehensive survey of Nijinsky's influential works. Instead, Cox ventures
deeply into Nijinsky's thoughts and emotions as expressed in diaries begun in
1919, just as the once world-famous dancer began his descent into... insanity?
The question is valid, for what we witness here--eloquently expressed through
Derek Jacobi's sublime readings of Nijinsky's diaries--are the musings of an
artist who lost touch with reality, only to rediscover a kind of glorious
divinity in the intensity of his own feelings. Cox accompanies the diaries with
his own interpretive dance of imagery, archival photos, and performed excerpts
of Nijinsky's dances, all set beautifully to perfectly chosen classical music.
As a filmed state of mind, this is a challenging work of art to be savored over
and over again

The documentary is an art piece. As such it is not intended as narrative. But in
fact, you'll learn more from the one-paragraph epilogue flashed on the screen in
the last 20 seconds than you will from the rest of the film. There are many
layers of symbolism -- bird imagery, religious iconography, blood, and so on --
that the viewer will not be inspired to untangle. Perhaps there's something
there, but somehow one tends to doubt it.

Director: Paul Cox

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read a article on this wonderful film at :

http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/20/nijinsky.html

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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality

The most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's
relationship with death ever captured on film. Hailed by many viewers as a
"life-transformational film," Flight from Death uncovers death anxiety as a
possible root cause of many of our behaviors on a psychological, spiritual, and
cultural level.

Following the work of the late cultural anthropologist, Ernest Becker and his
Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Denial of Death", this film explores the ongoing
research of a group of social psychologists that may forever change the way we
look at ourselves and the world. Over the last 25 years, this team of
researchers has conducted over 300 laboratory studies, which substantiate
Becker's claim that death anxiety is a primary motivator or human behavior,
specifically aggression and violence.

Director: Patrick Shen

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festival to elevate the planet's consciousness, the philosophy of Ubuntu.
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Christmas with Dad

Bifa-nominated short documentary Christmas with Dad follows 23-year-
old but already a father to seven children, five from his partner�s
previous relationships ,AJ and his family prepare for the festive
season and the arrival of an eighth child. With remarkable access and
insight the film reveals a young man struggling to define his role as
a father, haunted by his own childhood and facing an uncertain future.

Director: Conor McCormack

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Abused by her family, forced into marriage, pregnant at 13 then hunted
down for violating her family's honour .

HONOUR ME : a shocking true story of women�s struggle to break free
from her past.

"Honour me",displays the problematic and complex interplay of diverse
forms of violence: social, religious, cultural, economic and physical,
which are all experienced and related by Sameem Ali in this shocking
and touching personal account. A technically impeccable documentary
with outstanding cinematography and editing, "Honour Me" offers an
unusually sensitive and personal view of a rarely told, but
unfortunately not rarely experienced situation, in an incredibly
courageous testimony by a strong woman documented in a most honest and
captivating way by an excellent film maker".

Director: Alex Tweddle

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I am Pema: a lyrical reflection on displacement and hope from Tibet.

Seven year old Pema was sent into exile from Tibet by her parents, in
their attempt to give her an education immersed in Tibetan culture.
The cost of their dream could be that they never see each other again.

Pema trekked over the Himalayas with a group of 39 children escaping
from their oppressed homeland to seek freedom in exile.

A day in Pema�s world - her optimism tinged with sadness at missing
her parents. The young girl demonstrates remarkable strength in
settling into a strange new world in a new country with new parents
making new friends and discoveries along the way.

Of course return to Tibet is unthinkable!

Director: Sam Wangyal

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Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without
seeing the sun or the moon: Akira Kurosawa

Satyajit Ray directs his first film and, by opening his eyes on his
country's realities, breaks every conventions of Indian cinema. During
twenty-five years, Ray's personal photographer Nemai Gosh will be his
shadow. This movie tells their parallel destinies, it ventures
Satyajit Ray's extraordinary artistic journey through the obsessive
lens of Nemai Gosh. It is the touching and mysterious story of a
photographer's disproportionate fascination for his subject.

For Nemai Gosh this documentary also means his last act of faith, it
will help convey to future generations the fruits of his lifetime
spent for another. He finally says what he bears on his heart. Giving
access for the first and the last time to the entirety of his
archives, he tells us: "this is the last thing I do for Ray".

A tribute to a creative genius, and to his privileged witness: Nemai
Gosh, the only one who still lives with him everyday. Because of him,
Ray resists to the bites of time.

Director: Aur�lien Bodinaux

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�Putin's Mama�

Silver Wolf Award Nominee in International Documentary Filmfestival,
Amsterdam

Little is known about the childhood of Russian leader Vladimir Putin,
despite his position as one of the world's most powerful men. Now in
an extraordinary development, a Georgian woman has come forward to say
she is his mother.

Not much in Vera Putina's 77-year existence distinguishes her from all
those other Russian women who grew up and grew old in the Soviet
Union. Until, in 1999, she recognized in Vladimir Putin, the son she
thought was lost forever. Did the son that Vera thought was lost,
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, really become the President of Russia?

�A deceptively simple approach to a complex story. A playfully
interweaves reality and myth.�

a film by Ineke Smits

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FOLLOWING JACKIE GLEASON

The television movie called Gleason was aired by CBS on 13 October 2002.  I
watched it eight years later here in Tasmania, Australia.1  The movie took a
deeper look into Jackie Gleason's(1916-1987) life; it took liberties with some
of the Gleason story; it featured his troubled home life, a side of Gleason that
few would previously have known about. I knew nothing of it.  Here in Australia
he was not as well-known as in North America.  Gleason had two daughters by his
first wife.  They divorced and Gleason endured a brief second marriage before
finding a happy union with his third wife, Marilyn Taylor.

Jackie Gleason's first recognition as a significant entertainer came on Broadway
when, at the age of 28, he appeared in the hit musical Follow the Girls(1944). 
I was born that same year in Hamilton Ontario.  CBS wooed and won him over to
its network in 1952.   The year 1952-3 was a big year for my family. It was
their first contact with the Baha'i Faith.  Gleason took the role of a lead
performer in the musical Take Me Along, which ran from 1959 to 1960; he won a
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.  I joined the
Baha'i Faith that same year at the age of 15.

In 1962, the year I began travelling and pioneering for the Canadian Baha'i
community, Jackie resurrected his variety show with more splashiness and a new
hook.  The hook was a fictitious general-interest magazine called The American
Scene Magazine through whose format Gleason trotted out many of his old
characters in new scenarios.  He also added another catchphrase to the American
vernacular.  It was first uttered in the 1963 film Papa's Delicate Condition:
"How sweet it is!"  The film was released in New York 7 weeks before what the
sociologist Max Weber, in his sociology of religion, called the full
institutionalization of a charismatic Force---in the Universal House of Justice.

On June 30, 1988, the Sunset Park Bus Depot in Brooklyn was renamed the Jackie
Gleason Depot in honor of this native Brooklynite. I had just started teaching
in Perth Western Australia in Technical and Further Education, my last full-time
job, in one of the most isolated cities on the planet.-Ron Price with thanks to
1 WIN TV, 6 December 2010, 12:20-2:05 a.m.

My life has been so different than yours, Jackie.
It was a miracle you lasted until you were 71!!!
On five packs of cigarettes a day and all that OH
--all that booze and emotional ups-and downs,
all that egomania, all that narcissism, all those
damaged relationships!!!    I did not do half as
bad, Jackie�..but then I did not become even
half as famous and never made all that money.
The perils, eh Jackie, of being famous and rich!

I did enjoy The Honeymooners,1happy memories
from a lifetime ago, before my mother decided to
sell our TV.  You lasted a long time, Jackie, and I
had no idea what happened to you. You were just
a character on TV, an image, a simulacrum as Jean
Baudrillard calls the fascinating hyperreality of TV.2

1 The Honeymooners was a TV series that appeared from 1 October 1955 to 22
September  1956.  I used to watch this program with my mother and father before
they sold out TV which, they thought, was taking too much of my time away from
my studies at school.
2 Jean Baudrillard(1929-2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural
theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently
associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism which I leave to readers to
follow-up on should they wish to read his books and essays about simulacra.

Ron Price
6 December 2010