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.

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Upcoming Screening

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 Offense
Viva la Lota
19 November 2022 
7p PST
Online: please register for the link to the screening on Eventbrite

I set the event up as registration with donation. Apparently Eventbrite needs you to enter some amount, any amount, and that works for the film and all the associated costs of making it and its film festivals tour.

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

1918 Spanish Flu, historical documentary 
28 April 2020 7 pm PST
Online, from the comfort of your home, as we practice social distancing during the Covid19 situation.

WALiB 2014 Shorts

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.

Secrets and Lies, directed by Stavros Stagos
6  Dec 2014, 12 pm
150 University Hall, UC Berkeley, CA

Bhopal 1984: the biggest industrial disaster in history. 25,000 people dead, 120,000 chronically ill, 22 years of legal battles in India and USA.The film examines the policy of multinational companies in the third world countries and the connection between the chemical industry and the industrial/military complex in the USA.

Bitter Seeds, directed by Micha X. Peled
6 Dec 2014, 1 pm
150 University Hall, UC Berkeley, CA

Director Micha X. Peled will be present for post screening discussion.

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.

Bitter Seeds Trailer by teddybearfilms

Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, directed by Ravi Kumar
7 Dec 2014, 12:30p
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.