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Frustrated with the amount of violence, negativity and dysfunction in today's media? Watch our short mission video and see how Awakening Voices is striving to make a difference.
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Frustrated with the amount of violence, negativity and dysfunction in today’s media? Watch our short mission video and see how Awakening Voices is striving to make a difference.
It’s exciting. It’s fun. And YOU make it happen!
As a nonprofit, Awakening Voices wants to Entertain, Empower & Inspire. Experience the power of nonviolent entertainment with our Movies channel, featuring quality nonviolent movies and documentaries.
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Katherine Mitchell (Linda Thorson), a widowed yet vibrant senior, wasn’t looking for love a second time – not at her age, and certainly not with grumpy Isaac Shapiro (Stuart Margolin). Despite the nosey bunch of seniors in the residence where Katherine convalesces after breaking her hip, she and Isaac warm to each other over their shared love of music. Against unforeseen obstacles, their love blooms and together they set out to fulfill Katherine’s lifelong dream of going to the opera in Milan.
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Filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, Quest is the moving portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia.
Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Christopher “Quest” Rainey and his wife Christine’a raise a family while nurturing a community of hip hop artists in their home music studio. It’s a safe space where all are welcome, but this creative sanctuary can’t always shield them from the strife that grips their neighborhood.
Epic in scope, the Sundance documentary Quest is a vivid illumination of race and class in America, and a testament to love, healing and hope.
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Extraordinary Ordinary People is a music-fueled journey through folk and traditional arts in America. At a time when the existence of the National Endowment for the Arts has never been more threatened, Alan Govenar’s documentary focuses on one of its least known and most enduring programs: the National Heritage Fellowship, awarded annually since 1982.
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What’s it like to dedicate your life to work that won’t be completed in your lifetime? 15 years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused on four projects and the people behind them in an effort to answer this universal question.
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The first of a three DVD set, this Oscar-winning film chronicles, with affection and intelligence, the great violinist, Isaac Stern’s, 1979 visit to China.
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Music Got Me Here follows the against-all-odds, true-life journey of Forrest Allen – A snowboard accident leaves Forrest, age 18, trapped inside himself, unable to speak or walk for almost two years. Tom Sweitzer, an eccentric music therapist with a troubled childhood who credits music with saving his own life, is determined to help Forrest find his voice.
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This is a sweet, dramatic comedy about what happens to a Midwestern mother when all her values are challenged by her best friend, 17-year-old daughter and her newest boarder. It takes a bit to get going but is well worth the time. RATING: R: Subject matter is for mature audiences. Though they are tastefully done and integral to the story, there are two bedroom scenes. One has topless nudity for one character. The other is a love scene. You can read The New York Times review here and the New York Post review here
As a nonprofit, Awakening Voices wants to Entertain, Empower & Inspire. The Ordinary Heroes channel offers solution-driven documentaries of ordinary people, just like us, working to solve today's challenges.
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Music Got Me Here follows the against-all-odds, true-life journey of Forrest Allen – A snowboard accident leaves Forrest, age 18, trapped inside himself, unable to speak or walk for almost two years. Tom Sweitzer, an eccentric music therapist with a troubled childhood who credits music with saving his own life, is determined to help Forrest find his voice.
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Challenged to create a product to fill an actual need in her community, college student, Veronika Scott created an innovative coat that turned into a business empowering homeless women. Check-out EMPOWERMENT PLAN here.
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This is an amazing video about Scott Harrison who went from wild-child, New York city night club promoter to champion of clean water for everyone. Scott got sick of the party life and decided to make a stand for clean water and created a nonprofit called charity: water.
Obviously, we can’t all stop what we’re doing and create a nonprofit. However, we can all make a difference even if it’s in a small way. If you want to learn more about charity: water and possibly get involved, click here.
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An ancient prophecy of the indigenous peoples of Quichua, Ecuador, speaks of a time when the eagle and the condor fly together – a time when western technological advancements, symbolized by the eagle, will support indigenous wisdom, symbolized by the condor. In this film, Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer) tells us the time of this prophecy is upon us, and invites us all to bring what is in our hearts out into life.
The Global Oneness Project
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Nelsa Libertad Curbelo personifies what it means to be an Ordinary Hero. In 1999, she founded the organization, Ser Paz (Being Peace) specifically to work with youth gangs in Ecuador’s southern city of Guayaquil. Through her work, many of Guayaquil’s most dangerous gangs have disarmed, agreed to abandon violence and are now working together to rebuild the community.
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Talk about a simple life! This video features a Canadian farmer who is inspired by farming techniques he observed as a boy in post-war Ireland. He believes in working with the land by hand without machinery. He is preserving a simple way of life from a bygone age. Is he on to something. Something to consider.
Learn more The Global Oneness Project
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This video is about a woman who had a dream of sustainability and decided do something about it. She created a nonprofit, educational organization with the vision that all people can live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the earth. Her organization envisions a world in which people, inspired by nature, create and maintain healthy and abundant livelihoods that enhance fertility and biodiversity on the planet. Be sure to checkout her site at Regenerative Design.
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What is the value of something that doesn’t have a price? That is the fundamental question raised every week at Karma Kitchen, a volunteer-run restaurant in Berkeley. Based on an experiment in generosity, guests are presented with a $0 bill at the end of each meal. Founder and volunteer Nipun Mehta explains how the opportunity to pay-it-forward for the next person opens our innate compassion and builds true community.
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This extended trailer features the beautiful story that follows the lives of garbage pickers who, out of necessity, start creating instruments entirely out of garbage for the local school children. To learn more and watch the complete movie, click Landfill Harmonics.
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In the harsh environment of a Rhode Island men’s prison, a group of fifty inmates are transforming their lives through the practice of meditation. Path of Freedom follows former inmate Fleet Maull as he visits prison to share his strategies for surviving on the inside. The film offers a rare glimpse into the inner lives of men reaching for forgiveness, inner peace and freedom behind bars. To learn more about Fleet and the work of the Prison Mindfulness Institute, visit: Prison Mindfulness.
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A simple mission with great impact. Check out this extended trailer about Daily Acts, which grew out of an unwavering belief in our power to usher in a new world by inspiring people to live their potential through simple daily actions that nurture community and regenerate nature. Check out what Daily Acts is up to currently.
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This is an amazing example how, as individuals, we can come together to make a huge impact!
In Oakland, California, where liquor stores have replaced markets, the People’s Grocery helps residents build healthy connections to food, the land and each other.
As a nonprofit, Awakening Voices wants to Entertain, Empower & Inspire. The interactive Be a Voice channel offers a venue where viewers can upload videos documenting their efforts as video producers for change.
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David Love being a voice for others when he buys a meal for an elderly man and gives him $20.00 for his next couple of meals.
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Perfect example of a video that illustrates that to make a difference one does not have to do anything elaborate. Something as simple as an interview about a current topic needing exposure can be enough. Check out this interview about Humane Education at Responsible Eating and Living.
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A short video about one man making a difference in the lives of the homeless in Salt Lake City. Nothing fancy. Just deciding what he can do and doing it. Be a Voice! Make a Difference! Learn more about what Mr. Smith is up by clicking One Man Making a Difference
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What started as a $25 fundraiser for filter straws for children in Africa, turned into a fundraiser for $6,500 to provide a clean water well for an entire African village. A very simple video about a powerful experience in these young lives. Even though you can’t see the expressions on the children’s faces, you can feel their excitement and pride. Be a Voice! Make a Difference!
As a nonprofit, Awakening Voices wants to Entertain, Empower & Inspire. The Youth Out of the Box channel is a venue where young people, from around the globe, can connect, share ideas and upload videos documenting their personal growth and community service projects.
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Check back, and when we have movies featured in the thumbnails, consider being a sponsor for one of them and join our Sponsors Walk of Fame.
Awakening Voices is a nonprofit. All sponsorship grants are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
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SPONSOR A MOVIE
Currently, we are in conversation with First Run Features Film Distribution. As we identify movies, we will post the trailers in the box to the left.
Check back and when we have a trailer featured, consider being a sponsor and join our Sponsors Walk of Fame.
Awakening Voices is a nonprofit. All sponsorship grants are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
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Currently, we are in conversation with Passion River Film Distribution. As we identify movies, we will post the trailers in the box to the left.
Check back, and when we have a trailer featured, consider being a sponsor and joining our Sponsors Walk of Fame.
Awakening Voices is a nonprofit. All sponsorship grants are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
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SPONSOR A MOVIE
Currently, we are having discussions with Monterey Media. As we identify movies, we will post the trailers in the space to the left.
When we have trailers featured, check them out and consider being a sponsor and joining our Sponsors Walk of Fame.
Awakening Voices is a nonprofit. All sponsorship grants are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
By clicking on the Sponsor This Movie button: