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Featured Filmmaker
Muriel Stockdale Director & ISE-NY, INC.'s Co-Founder and Spirit Leader
For over 26 years Muriel has created outstanding costumes for some of the finest producers of film, TV and live entertainment. She has also produced, directed, stage-managed, performed, crewed, managed costume shops, and designed and painted scenery.
Muriel taught at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Design Department for fourteen years. She is an accomplished artist and craftsperson, a Reiki hands-on-healer, a resourceful businesswoman, and a writer. She has completed her second screenplay, Gabriels Flight, and won a commission to write the book for a musical version of the Indian epic myth, Ramayana. Over 30 years Muriel has been devoted to the study of spiritual traditions of all cultures. She has acquired a profound appreciation for all forms of worship. Her mandate is to create uplifting entertainment that shares and celebrates our rich multicultural human heritage and the universal truths of our spiritual traditions.
The idea for this film was born during a sacred Hindu fire ceremony held in the Shree Muktananda Ashram in upstate NY.
For me that fire ceremony was a powerfully sacred and profoundly nurturing event. It was a celebration that made me feel that my connection to the divine was tangible and that that connection was primordial, now and eternal. I realized right then that this America is filled with sacred events that uplift us. I made a commitment then to find a way to share those nurturing practices through media. Muriel's short film NEW YORK CITY SPIRIT will premiere at the 4th Annual Damah Festival March 11-12, 2005 in Los Angeles. See websites below for more information. There will be 5 members of the ISE-NY community in attendance. Safe travels!
www.nycspirit.com: New York City Spirit is a prayer, an affirmation for a positive future for our entire world. This film celebrates the spiritual heart of New York City which is a paradigm for a new global future. It is a missive of peace. Cultures are integrating all over the world and unfortunately we hear about it only when there are problems. We dont hear how integration brilliantly enhances communities. People fear that mingling with other cultures means the destruction of their own heritage. In New York, conflict is the exception not the rule. www.damah.org: The Damah Film Festival is open to the general public and is dedicated to screening short spiritual films. Damah (dù mah)[1] noun. Hebrew 1. a metaphor that transforms. 2. an art form that starts with a commonly accepted way of looking at the world and adds a surprise or unexpected twist that results in a new perspective that inspires and transforms the viewer. 3. the merging of the known, the unknown and the transcendent. 4. similar to the storytelling form known as the parable.
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Images provided by New York City Spirit - www.nycspirit.com
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