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10 a.m. - Films Begin (Two theaters)
6:30 pm -Film director Stephen Simon - Opening Remarks in Main Theater - FREE.
7:30
-Filmmakers Party - by invitation
Mingle with national figures in film. Producer Bonny Dore, (pictured right), is our panel discussion moderator.
Friday June 24, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
10:30 am - Films Begin
1:30 pm - Lindsay Wagner Keynote Presentation "Telling the Truth in Film, It's Powerful" - $10 - BUY TICKETS
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5 pm - Spirit in Film Panel (see below) - FREE
6:30 pm - Awards Ceremony - Emcee Michael Smith
8 pm. - GALA Party featuring Rahelio & Shinsho-Mugen Taiko Drummers - Buy Tickets
Metaphysical market open until 10 pm
5 pm - Spirit in Film Panel (see below) - FREE
6:30 pm - Awards Ceremony - Emcee Michael Smith
8 pm. - GALA Party featuring Rahelio & Shinsho-Mugen Taiko Drummers - Buy Tickets
Metaphysical market open until 10 pm
10 a.m. Workshop with Louis Audet on Feng Shui in filmmaking - Buy tickets
Films begin
12:30 pm - Metaphysical Filmmaking Panel
(FREE)
2 pm - 4 pm - Lindsay Wagner's Quiet the Mind & Open the Heart Workshop
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2 pm - 4 pm - Lindsay Wagner's Quiet the Mind & Open the Heart Workshop
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Each day from 10:30 to 6 pm, be sure to visit our Akasha metaphysical market, located throughout the Sunset Center, featuring psychics,
healers and local vendors. An art market will also showcase the work of talented artists, jewelers, and musicians.
For the complete schedule, including the film lineup, click here. Each day from 10:30 to 6 pm, be sure to visit our metaphysical
market, featuring psychics & healers located throughout the Sunset Center.
Akasha Metaphysical Film Festival - SPIRIT IN ART & FILM PANEL
Sat. June 25 at 5 pm
Sat. June 25 at 5 pm
Rahelio, as featured in the film Sacred Space: Searching for the Source, will perform at the Awards Ceremony/Gala Party on Saturday
evening.
Shinsho-Mugen Taiko Drummers Perform at the Gala Party on Saturday evening. Japanese Taiko drumming involves the tremendous
release of controlled power in which the drummer is centered, grounded and hitting the drum with precise form and fluidity.
Daniel Merriam – Metaphysical artist
Regarded as one of the world’s foremost watercolorists, Daniel Merriam has captured the
hearts and curiosities of collectors worldwide. His paintings are dreams in full color that invite the viewer to join a journey into
the imagination. Merriam has had over one hundred exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. In 1998, Monarch Editions,
Inc. published The Art of Daniel Merriam: The Impetus of Dreams – and the book’s second edition was published in 2002. Merriam’s
most recent catalogue reisonné The Eye of a Dreamer was released in October 2007.
PANEL MODERATOR
Bonny Dore - Film & TV Producer
Bonny Dore is President of her own television production company, Bonny Dore Productions Inc., producing award- winning television network and cable mini-series, movies of the week, and series. These include “SINS,” the acclaimed and sweeps winning, 7-hour mini-series for CBS and “GLORY, GLORY,” the multi-award-winning musical mini-series for HBO.
Bonny Dore - Film & TV Producer
Bonny Dore is President of her own television production company, Bonny Dore Productions Inc., producing award- winning television network and cable mini-series, movies of the week, and series. These include “SINS,” the acclaimed and sweeps winning, 7-hour mini-series for CBS and “GLORY, GLORY,” the multi-award-winning musical mini-series for HBO.
Come meet world-renowned artist Daniel Merriam in the Metaphysical Market
Film producer & director Stephen Simon (What Dreams May Come) speaks Friday night at 6:30 and signs copies of his new book.
Stephen Simon – Film Producer and Director
In more than thirty years as a producer, director, and production executive, Stephen
personally produced such acclaimed projects as the Academy Award® winning What Dreams May Come (starring Robin Williams) & the
cult classic Somewhere in Time (Christopher Reeve). He was nominated for an Emmy Award as one of the executive producers of “Homeless
to Harvard” for Lifetime Television. Stephen also directed and produced the metaphysical films “Indigo” and “Conversations with
God.” In 2004, Stephen co-founded The Spiritual Cinema Circle, a monthly DVD distribution service that became an immediate international
success. His latest book “Bringing Back the Old Hollywood” was published in 2011.
Victor Goss – Film Director (Apocalypse According to Doris).
A camera has has always been in Victor's hands - from an Ansco 620
in Yosemite as a 4-year-old to selling 16mm Bolex equipment in a camera shop in Waikiki as a teenager. Victor's background in
writing, directing, and cinematography brought him the hit TV series THE WONDER YEARS, and later to the Golden Globe, Emmy-winning
and ASC Nominated series GABRIEL'S FIRE with James Earl Jones. This successful career has been built upon a study of Eastern philosophy
and meditation under an authentic Tibetan master for fifteen years.
Catherine Rosek – Renowned Intuitive Consultant.
Catherine Rosek, CSC, HTP, is a Gifted Clairvoyant, Certified Spiritual Counselor,
and 6th Dimension Healer. She has been a student of metaphysics and alternative healing/energy work for 43 years. Catherine
is a trance and conscious channel of Archangels, Ascended Masters, and Spirit. Catherine is also the primary source for the
channeled material in the award-winning book “Who Am I and Why Am I Here? - The Universal Spiritual View of the Meaning and Purpose
of Our Human Life on Earth”. Catherine offers empowering lectures, workshops, public channelings, and individual readings, all attended
and guided by the Archangels and Ascended Masters. View website.
Peter Newfield – Location Manager
Peter Newfield has 30 years in the film business with primary experience in location management
& production management for commercials, movies, TV, still shoots, and videos. He helps directors and photographers
find and manage locations to match ideas and imagery. In 2005, Peter won the “California On Location Award,” an annual awards program
to recognize the best location scouts and managers who work on film productions.
Elise Robertson – Actress & Director (Apocalypse According to Doris)
Elise has appeared in GOOD HUMOR MAN and Soderbergh’s
EROS along with televisions shows SIX FEET UNDER, GILMORE GIRLS, TWO AND A HALF MEN, GREY’S ANATOMY and countless commercials.
She has performed on stage in THE THREE SISTERS, BETRAYAL, OURSELVES ALONE, THE SEAGULL, and OLEANNA. Elise is an EMMY and CINE-GOLDEN
EAGLE winning director and writer of television and stage, and her company is just now in the final stages of posting DONNER PASS,
her feature directorial debut.
Rahelio - Shaman & Mystic
Rahelio is a shaman and mystic who has practiced in Sedona, Arizona since 1987.
Since then he has worked as a spiritual guide and professional astrologer, helping thousands of visitors to have inspirational and
healing experiences, including sweat lodge ceremonies. He is ordained as a minister in the Order of Melchizedek and conducts
Native American style weddings and blessing ceremonies. Visit website.
Karen Nordstrand – Director of Marketing and Film Production; Monterey Film Commission
Karen has worked for the Monterey County
Film Commission for more than 21 years, including four years as executive director. Karen helps producers scout sites for major
movies, documentaries, commercials and magazine shoots. She handles the marketing and advertising to the film industry
as well as for local commission activities. Karen moved to Monterey County 24 years ago and has a background in public
relations and advertising.
Sanford Astor – Entertainment Attorney
Sanford Astor focuses his practice on business litigation, intellectual property and technology
with an emphasis in domestic and international patent, trademark and copyright prosecution and entertainment litigation. He
has taught at UCLA film school, among others. He is currently the Intellectual Property Advisor to Women in Film Los Angeles,
and has previously worked with Women in Film Palm Springs, Women in Film and Television Denmark (1999) and Women in Film and Television
Sweden (2004).
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Metaphysical Filmmaking Panel Participants - Sun June 26 at 12:30 pm.
Akasha Metaphysical Film Festival Musical Performances:
Keynote Presentation - Saturday June 25 at 1:30 pm in the Main Theater
Lindsay Wagner - Actress/ Energy Medicine Advocate
Lindsay Wagner makes little distinction between her life as an actress, advocate,
mother or author. What unites these various parts is a commitment to exploring and advancing human potential. Lindsay
has co-authored a best-selling vegetarian cookbook, “The High Road to Health”(1990) and “Lindsay Wagner's New Beauty: The Acupressure
Facelift”(1986). She has recently released a meditation CD “Open to Oneness”. Her work utilizes a range of psychological and
spiritual techniques.
PANEL MODERATOR
Bonny Dore - Film & TV Producer
Bonny Dore is President of her own television production company, Bonny Dore Productions Inc., producing award- winning television network and cable mini-series, movies of the week, and series. These include “SINS,” the acclaimed and sweeps winning, 7-hour mini-series for CBS and “GLORY, GLORY,” the multi-award-winning musical mini-series for HBO.
Bonny Dore - Film & TV Producer
Bonny Dore is President of her own television production company, Bonny Dore Productions Inc., producing award- winning television network and cable mini-series, movies of the week, and series. These include “SINS,” the acclaimed and sweeps winning, 7-hour mini-series for CBS and “GLORY, GLORY,” the multi-award-winning musical mini-series for HBO.
VENDOR LIST
Rosemary Brown Sanders - Psychic
Pilgrim's Way Bookstore
ElegantCrystals.com - Gemstone Treasures
Rosemary Brown Sanders - Psychic
Pilgrim's Way Bookstore
ElegantCrystals.com - Gemstone Treasures
Stephanie Alt - Intuitive Readings
Pacific Coast Church- Ancient Wisdom in a Modern Way
Diane Norrby - Products for Spiritual & Physical Health
Valerie White- Intuitive Tarot Reader
Emy Ledbetter - Visionary Art
Ravie Keyuris - Henna Products
Sonne Reyna - (appears in the film Metaphysia 2012)
with Laynee Bird Reyna
VENDOR LIST
Rosemary Brown Sanders - Psychic
Pilgrim's Way Bookstore
ElegantCrystals.com - Gemstone Treasures
Rosemary Brown Sanders - Psychic
Pilgrim's Way Bookstore
ElegantCrystals.com - Gemstone Treasures
Stephanie Alt - Intuitive Readings
Pacific Coast Church- Ancient Wisdom in a Modern Way
Diane Norrby - Products for Spiritual & Physical Health
Valerie White- Intuitive Tarot Reader
Emy Ledbetter - Visionary Art
Ravie Keyuris - Henna Products
Sonne Reyna - (appears in the film Metaphysia 2012)
with Laynee Bird Reyna
VENDOR LIST
Rosemary Brown Sanders - Psychic
Pilgrim's Way Bookstore
ElegantCrystals.com - Gemstone Treasures
Rosemary Brown Sanders - Psychic
Pilgrim's Way Bookstore
ElegantCrystals.com - Gemstone Treasures
Stephanie Alt - Intuitive Readings
Pacific Coast Church- Ancient Wisdom in a Modern Way
Diane Norrby - Products for Spiritual & Physical Health
Valerie White- Intuitive Tarot Reader
Emy Ledbetter - Visionary Art
Ravie Keyuris - Henna Products
Sonne Reyna - (appears in the film Metaphysia 2012)
with Laynee Bird Reyna