ILLUMINATE 2018 Lineup

ILLUMINATE 2018 Program Guide • Download the Festival Grid

Select MORE INFO for each film to purchase tickets.

 



Live Your Quest
Opening Night
Festival Premiere

Thursday, May 31, 7:00 pm SPAC Main Theater

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.


A Q&A with Tom Chi follows.

Preceded by:  
Intuition | Australia | 2017 | 5 • Documentary Short




You Are What You Act
World Premiere

Friday, June 1, 10:00 am Mary D. Fisher Theatre

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.


A Q&A with director Albert Nerenberg follows.




3100: Run and Become
World Premiere

Friday, June 1, 1:00 pm Mary D. Fisher Theatre

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.





The Edge of Paradise
World Premiere

Saturday, June 2, 10:00 am Mary D. Fisher Theatre

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.


A Q&A with director Robert Stone follows.

Preceded by:  
Ram Dass: Going Home | USA | 2017 | 31 • Documentary Short




Calling All Earthlings
World Premiere

Saturday, June 2, 1:00 pm Mary D. Fisher Theatre

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.


A Q&A with director Jonathan Berman follows the film.




From Shock to Awe
World Premiere

Saturday, June 2, 4:00 pm Mary D. Fisher Theatre
SPAC Black Box


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.





The Miracle Morning
Spotlight
World Premiere

Saturday, June 2, 6:45 pm SPAC Main Theater

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.


A Q&A with director Nick Conedera and film subject Hal Elrod followed.




Live Video Streaming Satsang With Mooji
and screening of The Way Home
World Premiere

Sunday, June 3, 10:00 am Mary D. Fisher Theatre

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.


A Q&A with director Jeremy Lubman and Live Video Satsang with Mooji follows the film.