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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.