Enjoy a spectacular night's entertainment amongst the red rocks at The Creative Life Center. Just as the stars come out, so too will the screening of The Push.
 

What do you do when your high-risk, high-adventure world crashes under you? If you're Grant Korgan, you focus on recovering 120 percent to do the impossible: push your way over nearly 100 miles in Antarctica, spinal cord injury and all.

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Black Star - Explore art as a healing modality to stop the vicious cycle of addiction. At its heart, this short film shows art as a force for good. Listen to the music of David Bowie, Michael Jackson and other talented souls. (World Premiere)

Director: Akira Chan - Documentary
USA – 2018 – 35 minutes

Q&A with director Akira Chan and executive producer and subject Joe Polish follows.

VISION: Seeing Is Believing - In his mind's eye, artist Jim Hansel sees the completed image on each blank canvas. But he has to paint it inch by inch to bring that vision to form. You see, the much-collected painter of Americana is legally blind. With vision, seeing is believing. But with faith, believing is seeing. (Festival World Premiere)

Director: Mark Anderson – Documentary
USA – 2017 – 19 minutes

A Q&A with director Mark Anderson follows.

Living Music - When a promising young musician's career is almost cut short after he loses his voice to a rare medical condition called spasmodic dysphonia, he goes on a rehabilitative journey of artistic experimentation. There Tyler Carson discovers unconventional healing to find his new musical identity. (World Premiere)

Director: Libby Spears – Documentary
USA – 2017 – 19 minutes

A Q&A and music performance with film subject Tyler Carson follows.

Sometimes the answers are hiding in plain sight. With 21 chronic diseases between them, and time running out, this young family goes entirely non-GMO and organic with miraculous health results.

We invite you to join the conversation with luminary teachers at the forefront of consciousness as they guide unique workshops that usher in an evolutionary shift in awareness.

Global activist Lynne Twist will take us on an exploration to reclaim the wealth of our inner resources, bringing a new level of consciousness to the way money impacts our lives and our society. Lynne Twist brings profound insight to environmental activism, spirituality, and sustainability with a solution-based outlook. Be empowered as you reevaluate what has value in your life.

Join Jack Canfield, Michael Beckwith, Lisa Nichols, Vishen Lakhiani, Tom Chi and others as you learn how to settle into your purpose and become the best version of you.

Can you really fake it until you make it? Could Hollywood superstars like Tom Cruise be more likely to save someone's life because of film training? You Are What You Act proposes a revolutionary new health trend by asking what influences us more: our minds or our bodies? Albert Nerenberg and other leading psychologists in embodied cognition demonstrate fascinating psychological exercises with amazing results.

What would you do if economic inequality was a thing of the past and basic income was a given? Follow this German-inspired trajectory to see how lives can become more creative, productive and utterly transformed.

How does running lead to enlightenment? In this sweeping examination of running's spiritual nature, we follow long-distance runners in Arizona, Finland, New York City, the Japanese highlands and Africa's Kalahari Desert.

Immerse yourself in Dharamsala, a hilltop town in India and home to the Kalachakra initiation. Natalie and three others start to confront their deepest fears as they approach the transformational power of this initiation, led by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who is followed by millions. Narrated by Uma Thurman.

You've done the affirmations, chanted, and saged your workspace. Now where's the money? Experts share what it takes to get a project out of your dreams and onto the screen. Hear insights from their own successes and challenges. Take notes as they share helpful hints for writing pitch documents, winning grants, landing investors, tapping film funds and leveraging broadcasters. You'll walk away with best practices and proven strategies for funding your dreams from vision to screen.

Moderator: JoAnne Fishburn, Founder/CEO, Good Influence Films
Claire Aguilar, Director of Programming and Policy, International Documentary Association
Lisa Leeman, Filmmaker, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, One Lucky Elephant, Crazy Wisdom
Giancarlo Canavesio, Venture capitalist, Producer and Founder, Mangusta Productions/Mangu.tv

When scientist Leah saves the life of Samuel, an actor, their lives change dramatically. Samuel comes to believe that they have always been destined to fall in love. But can he convince logical Leah with his metaphysical ideas on past lives, reincarnations and destinies? Is such a supernatural shift possible for her?

We invite you to join the conversation with luminary teachers at the forefront of consciousness as they guide unique workshops that usher in an evolutionary shift in awareness.

When things get really moving it's called a juggernaut... and that juggernaut is Grant Korgan, along with Mrs. Shawna Korgan at his side. They are riding the wave of well-deserved and hard won acclaim for The Push, following Grant's life-changing spinal cord injury and phoenix-like rise from the ashes. No sensation from the waist down, but Korgan addresses audiences about his use of the power of will, faith and - would you believe - music?

History comes alive through archaeology in this multi-layered epic drama. A modern-day Mohawk and archaeologist, Baptist Asigny (played by Canadian rapper Samian), journeys through 750 years of history in one single spot. We hear tales of native peoples, explorers and Revolutionary rebels in the 1800s. Hochelaga, Land of Souls is a portrait of sacred land, ancestors, memory and reconciliation.

Taylor Camp, 1969, the ultimate hippy fantasy. Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bails out a ragtag band of young Mainlanders jailed for vagrancy. He invites them to live on his oceanfront land in Hawaii. Soon, waves of hippies, surfers, and Vietnam vets find their way to this clothing-optional, pot-friendly, tree-house village at the end of the road. Until the neighbors revolt.

With the help of a professional storyteller, five orphaned children release the scars of their lives in Swaziland by creating their own fictional heroine, Liyana. This animated African tale of perseverance draws from their darkest memories and brightest dreams. As Liyana embarks on a dangerous rescue of her young twin brothers, the transformative power of storytelling emerges in real lives.

Take twenty minutes to transform your success potential. That's twenty precious minutes of uninterrupted, full focus, one-on-one time with an industry leader. Discuss your project, ask questions, pick their brains on finance, marketing, distribution ... but above all listen. This calibre of advice doesn't manifest out of the ethers every day. Use your twenty wisely to give your project a giant boost.

Take Twenty is ONLY available to Filmmaker, All-Access or Convergence passholders on a first-come, first-served basis. Deadline for sign-ups May 23. Sign up here.

Explore the Integratron, an electromagnetic dome near Joshua Tree created by George Van Tassel, a 1940s Howard Hughes confidante. Van Tassel claimed inspiration came through alien contact and Nikola Tesla to create his desert device. Does it really rejuvenate us and transform both time and energy, as he claimed? Find out as relatives and neighbors, skeptics and believers, scientists, healers and artists tell this fascinating story.

From elite private schools to public education to the streets, teachers and students are making a difference by uplifting themselves and others through mindfulness. Enjoy its poetic cinematography, real-life stories and sequences of teachers leading sensitive or boisterous practices. Mindfulness in education, we discover, is as a fundamental piece of life's puzzle—at any age.

Raise your hand if you love to pitch. Not so much, huh? You've told us this is your tender spot, so we're going to lead you gently but clearly into a better way to conceive, craft, and deliver your pitch. Access your inner pitch notes, eliminate body language sabotage, and learn powerful techniques to calm and center yourself to connect with all your sources of support including financial, producing, and impact partners, distributors, and actors. You'll develop a purposefully aligned and organic approach to mastering one of the most challenging aspects of getting the support you need. Go ahead, bring your awkward pitching self. We're here to help.

John Raatz, Co-founder, Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment
Valerie Vandermeer, Founder, PostParadigm Consulting & ScalingChange

Can you recoup in 6 months or less? Who are your best partners? Who gets which rights? Should you DIY and what's best left to distributors? Disruption in the industry has caused confusion, but there's also magic in the opportunities that abound. Distribution experts will unpack creative approaches as they case study how some of the newest models were used in last year's conscious film releases HEAL, Walk With Me, and Samsara. They'll reveal the secrets of success for theatrical, non-theatrical, theatrical-on-demand, DVD, digital/VOD, and re-releases. It's essential business wisdom that even seasoned pros need to know to access the real magic ... your audience.

Moderator: Trina Wyatt, CEO, Conscious Good
Adam Schomer, Producer, HEAL
Scott Glosserman, CEO, GATHR Films

How would you help a parent who dreamt his end is near? For dutiful son Rajiv, it means dropping everything and traveling with his father Daya to the Hindu holy city of Varanasi. Seeking an end to rebirth, Daya blooms with life instead. Meanwhile, Rajiv finds himself torn by his responsibilities. Based on real guest houses for the dying, this film is a bittersweet Indian meditation on death, life and salvation.

When trauma leaves us broken spiritually, where do we turn? From Shock to Awe follows the journey of returned U.S. combat veterans as they abandon pharmaceutical drugs to seek relief through the controversial, mind-expanding world of cannabis, ayahuasca and MDMA, known as ecstasy.

Hal Elrod has an ambitious goal: To "elevate the consciousness of humanity, one morning at a time." He gets waylaid, however, when doctors diagnose an aggressive form of cancer and give him a 30 percent chance of surviving. Watch as Hal turns that 30 into 100 with his "miracle morning" routine, now a best-selling book of life-changing practices.

Find your way home as self-realized spiritual guide Mooji lights up the screen with his presence, wisdom and loving guidance. As a great living master, he shows us who we are beyond the limitations of our conditioning and identity. Since 1999, Mooji has been sharing Satsang with seekers in search of the direct experience of Truth. Watch as he introduces The Invitation—one of the most effective aids for true and lasting self-discovery.

Be inspired and uplifted as this world-renowned entrepreneur, speaker and best-selling author uses his extraordinary life and career to transform millions. The world knows Jack's kindness and compassion through his Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books, which help others (maybe even you!) live lives of success, gratitude and joy.

Join some of the most brilliant, accomplished and high-impact leaders of our day as they re-define a new model of success. Be uplifted and empowered to live radically-fulfilled, purpose-driven lives as we review film clips and engage in conversation.

Is animal communication possible? Filmmaker Salome Pitschen explores communication between animals and humans. On an international journey that even leads her to the Sedona-based Maia Kincaid, Salome discovers what it means to communicate with animals, whether it's her dog Bina, horses, dolphins, or goats. Getting familiar with their language and training with her dog she learns astonishing things about animal communication.

Michael Franti's documentary is an experiential journey through music and stories from some of the most inspiring people who have chosen to overcome cynicism with optimism and hope. They remind us of what it means to stay human.