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Film Screenings
Film Screenings
The Beyond Holistic Film Screenings are an offering of inspiring, educational, and entertaining films with the intention of encouraging people to inspire us to think deeply and broadly as we expand the conversation about what is important and relevant to our individual and collective well-being.
Beyond Holistic Film Screenings foster community, dialogue, cross-cultural communication, and action around issues pertaining to the health of individuals and the planet. Each film will be accompanied by action items in which people can participate to make a difference in their own lives as well as the lives of others.
Upcoming Screenings
In honor of World Toilet Day on 19 November 2022 we present two award winning very short films by JypsyJays Productions, BadBoo: An Olfactory Offense (2017) and Viva la Lota (2020). Both films are superhero comedic films about a couple of our toileting practices. Each has done very well in film festivals around the world. BadBoo won 7 awards and Viva la Lota has garnered 19 awards so far. I am now ready to share these films with you too. As I can’t yet post them online until they have completed their current circuit with the film festivals, I am hosting my own screening. I hope you can join us for a fun evening.
BadBoo: An Olfactory OffenseViva la Lota
19 November 2022
7p PST
Online: please register for the link to the screening on Eventbrite
The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session
Panelists
Bala Gopalan: Co-Founder and Director of Upward Spiral, an organization focused on designing behavior change program for social impact. He travels all over the world helping communities improve their toileting hygiene.
Barry Kudrowitz, PhD: Morse Distinguished Professor and Department Head, University of Minnesota, College of Design. He has studied the history of perianal hygiene and the use of toilet paper.
Tina Woolsey has been studying yoga and Ayurveda for more than 13 years. She will share with us what the Ayurvedic texts outline regarding best toileting practices.
Past Screenings
Bhopali, directed by Van Maximilian Carlson
2 Dec 2014, 7 pm
150 University Hall, UC Berkeley, CA
Q & A with Director Max Carlson and Producer Kirk Palayan.
Bhopali is a feature documentary about the survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster, the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India. Today the suffering continues, prompting victims to fight for justice against Union Carbide, the American corporation responsible for the disaster.
Bitter Seeds, directed by Micha X. Peled
6 Dec 2014, 1 pm
150 University Hall, UC Berkeley, CA
Bitter Seeds explores the future of how we grow things, weighing in on the worldwide debate over the changes created by industrial agriculture. Companies like the U.S.-based Monsanto claim that their genetically modified (GM) seeds offer the most effective solution to feeding the world’s growing population, but on the ground, many small-scale farmers are losing their land. Nowhere is the situation more desperate than in India, where an epidemic of farmer suicides has claimed over a quarter million lives. Every 30 minutes one farmer in India, deep in debt and unable to provide for his family, commits suicide.
Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, directed by Ravi Kumar
7 Dec 2014, 12:30pm
150 University Hall, UC Berkeley, CA
Set in December 1984, BHOPAL: A PRAYER FOR RAIN is based on true events when a devastating pesticide leak in Madhya Pradesh, central India, killed thousands of people.
Filmed in India, BHOPAL: A PRAYER FOR RAIN traces the lives of those living in Bhopal during the lead-up to what is still the world’s biggest chemical disaster through to its tragic aftermath, which many feel has still not been addressed, and which continues to have a major impact on peoples’ lives today. The victims of the Bhopal disaster have still, to this day, never received an official apology from the Indian or American government.
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