FIERCE LIGHT: WHEN SPIRIT MEETS ACTION
Wednesday 26 August | 8.30pm | Dendy Newtown
Australian Premiere | Director – Velcrow Ripper | 2008 | 90 min | English
Cast – Desmond Tutu, Daryl Hannah, Alice Walker, Noah Levine
Is rising up to the establishment really worth putting one's life at stake?
Australian Premiere | Director – Velcrow Ripper | 2008 | 90 min | English
Cast – Desmond Tutu, Daryl Hannah, Alice Walker, Noah Levine
Is rising up to the establishment really worth putting one's life at stake?
From the director of the acclaimed Scared Sacred and the producer of the Sundance-winning The Corporation comes an inspiring exploration of what Martin Luther King called Love in Action and what Gandhi called Soul Force: a spiritual activism which attempts to make sense of our troubled times.
Velcrow Ripper's journey takes him to the flash points of spiritual activism, from South Africa to India, and from Vietnam to South Central LA, where a months-long protest against the razing of a vital community garden provides a highly dramatic spine for this moving documentary. En route, he encounters a number of eloquent icons, including American Civil Rights legend John Lewis, actor turned activist Daryl Hannah, Nobel prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Alice Walker, Buddhist peace activist monk Thich Nhat Hahn, and dharma punk, Noah Levine. The result is inspiring and thought-provoking in equal measures.
Winner Audience Award, Vancouver International Film Festival
Velcrow Ripper's journey takes him to the flash points of spiritual activism, from South Africa to India, and from Vietnam to South Central LA, where a months-long protest against the razing of a vital community garden provides a highly dramatic spine for this moving documentary. En route, he encounters a number of eloquent icons, including American Civil Rights legend John Lewis, actor turned activist Daryl Hannah, Nobel prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Alice Walker, Buddhist peace activist monk Thich Nhat Hahn, and dharma punk, Noah Levine. The result is inspiring and thought-provoking in equal measures.
Winner Audience Award, Vancouver International Film Festival