ISE-NY, Inc.
Newsletter
May 2005 Volume 1, Issue 5
The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment - NEW YORK, Inc.: MISSION
ISE-NY (The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment- New York) is a collective of practical and artistic people from all corners of entertainment, film, theater, media, communication and innovative arts dedicated to envisioning and creating empowering, positive and spiritually nourishing entertainment
ISE-NY was formed to support media creators with networking opportunities, educational forums, practical support, fundraising services, audience outlets, film festivals, competitions and basically as many ways to empower its members to create excellent spiritual entertainment as possible or necessary.
ISE-NY monthly series offers networking opportunities and practical programs that are both informative and also provide hands-on-experience. Additionally, we offer a series of interactive seminars with knowledgeable media professionals, as well as screenings of films in various stages of completion. ISE-NY also invites producers and performers of live entertainment to participate and share their work.
ISE-NY MEETS MONTHLY every first Tuesday of the month 7PM-9:30PM. For details and to join the email list call 212 475-1875 or email Muriel@ISE-NY.org
BE INSPIRED, SHARE YOUR WORK, LEARN NEW SKILLS, MEET LIKE-MINDED MEDIA MAKERS!
The Director's Chair
Muriel Stockdale - Director & ISE-NY, INC.'s Co-Founder and Spirit Leader
Greetings All, These are very exciting times for us at ISE-NY. We are moving toward our first comprehensive ISE-NY weekend retreat of Spiritual Filmmaking Events. These are the events that you asked for in the energetic brainstorming sessions that many of you participated in last year. Stephen Simon has once more generously offered to conduct his one-day workshop here in New York. I enthusiastically recommend that you participate, sign up early because last November we sold out quickly. This is a brilliant opportunity to kick start an idea or to clarify your goals. You will have another great opportunity to hear Stephen speak in person on Thursday night. On Friday we are planning a fabulous party with some really great films to view. And Sunday you will have the opportunity to practice and craft your pitch in front of a terrific team of notable industry professionals. I hope that I will see everyone at some if not all of these events. The prices are great, the guests are awesome, the programs are exciting and our ISE-NY community (that's you) is really inspiring; so sign up right away, space is limited. There are a few opportunities for volunteers at some of the events. Please contact Guirlaine if you are interested in assisting. Thanks. If you have not yet examined our brand new website built with loving care by Jasmine Lovelstzy please do so at http://www.ISE-NY.org. Jasmine has graciously offered many hours developing the website and now that it's up we want to really start to work it. This is another of the brilliant brainstorm ideas that came from the group last year. This is a place for us all to communicate with each other and to share our skills, projects, events and more. It's your site please feel free to contact Jasmine with recommendations, ideas, suggestions and especially if you want to help. I hope you all saw, "Short Cut To Nirvana". If not please go, it is really a great film. I've always dreamed that I would one day go to the sacred pilgrimage in India known as the Kumbh Mela. It is an event of mythic proportions that has occurred for thousands of years and is always in whatever time period the largest gathering of humans ever, in 2001 according to the film, 30 to 70 million attended. Nick and Maurizzio's colorful, sensitive, bizarre and surprising representation of this massive mystifying event was immensely satisfying and glorious. Finally, I want to say thank you to Adam Nemett for inviting me to come and see his film, "The Instrument". This is another film to watch out for. Adam's film is extremely artistic, quirky and fascinating. The ensemble was very well cast and engaging. While the story of the film; sort of a private reality game show of rituals, was complex and sometimes convoluted I never lost interest or felt confused. Adam daringly explores metaphysical themes through the construct of a game which includes music, ritual, emotional interactions, and artistic _expression. Best were the natural and refreshing moments of humor, the audience was prompted to laugh out loud repeatedly and never to a joke at someone's expense. This is a unique film from a filmmaker we all need to watch. I look forward to seeing you all soon.
Blessings to all,
Muriel
Upcoming ISE-NY Events
ISE-NY June Meeting
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 "What is Spiritual Entertainment?" and "How is it manifested?" Panel: Vanessa Arteaga, Senior Programming & Production Executive for Wellspring Media
Paul Shavelson, Executive Producer of, "Crossing Over With John Edward", director and producer of, "Celebrity Dish" and producer of, "Fox After Breakfast" and "Breakfast Time".
ISE-NY presents a weekend of SPIRITUAL FILMMAKING with Stephen Simon
June 9 - June 12, 2005
ISE-NY is proud to present a weekend of events celebrating and promoting the word of spiritual entertainment with special guest Stephen Simon. Stephen Simon is a veteran Hollywood producer with a 30 year plus career and is the chief pioneer and spokesperson for Spiritual Cinema.
ISE-NY has planned an interactive weekend of seminars designed to inspire and empower spiritual cinema enthusiasts, established and emerging industry professionals and students to create and appreciate spiritual entertainment. All in the ISE-NY community are encouraged to attend.
EVENT PROGRAM & SCHEDULE
Thurs. June 9, 7:30 - 10:00pm
Mystical Movie Messages That Inspire Our Lives
Admission fee: $25
ISE-NY presents an evening with Stephen Simon where Stephen conducts an engaging presentation and discussion of the nature of contemporary cinema and the direction of Spiritual Cinema. During this inspirational, informative, and fun evening, Stephen passionately explains that there is a genre called Spiritual Cinema (which he distinguishes from Religious Cinema) that has yet to be recognized by mainstream Hollywood, explores the state of the movie business-where it was, where it is now and where it's going... and shows film clips from several of the films in this genre.
Fri. June 10, 6:30pm- 12:00pm
ISE-NY Mini-Film Festival & Reception
Admission fee: $25
ISE-NY hosts a reception and mini-film festival of spiritual short films and a feature film. Before the screenings there will be a short introduction by Stephen Simon.
Sat. June 11, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Spiritual Filmmaking 101: Insights & Intrigue
Admission fee: $250 (Space is Limited)
ISE-NY presents a unique opportunity for participants to attend an all day in depth interactive workshop on Spiritual Cinema with Stephen Simon. The workshop is designed for established and emerging industry professionals (e.g. actors, writers, directors and producers) and film students who wish to advance their understanding of the entertainment industry and their role within the genre of Spiritual Cinema. Stephen will provide an overview of the industry and share important insights into the challenges of filmmaking, story development and available distribution outlets. Participants are encouraged to bring projects they are developing such as a scene from a script to workshop with the group.
Sun. June 12, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Interactive Pitch Fest
Admission fee $25
ISE-NY presents a panel of prestigious figures in the spiritual entertainment field. Stephen Simon will moderate an informative discussion among the panelists about the art of pitching. Participants will have the opportunity to pitch their ideas within the context of Spiritual Entertainment and receive constructive feedback to the attendees.
Panelists:
Stephen Simon
Mickey Lemle (Director, Ram Dass: Fierce Grace)
Vanessa Arteaga (Senior Programming & Production Executive, Wellspring Media)
Anna Darrah (Director of Acquisitions, The Spiritual Cinema Circle)
Location: Meta Center - 214 West 29th Street, 16th Floor (between 7th & 8th Avenue)
Special Weekend Pass: $300
(Limited to first 25 persons to sign up)
For more information, please visit our Web Site: WWW.ISE-NY.ORG
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Contact: Muriel Stockdale
212 475 1875 info@ISE-NY.org
Featured Artist
Jasmine Lovelstzy
Jasmine Lovelstzy is an actress, director, producer, writer, and ISE-NY webmaster. Recently, we sat down with Jasmine (during a rare moment of inactivity) and posed a few questions to her about her filmmaking journey.
Q: How did you get to where you are at the present moment?
J: I was always an extremely visual person and drawn to films, so I started acting when I was nine years old. When I was fifteen, I started to envision a curriculum for an alternative way of education, using movies as a media of learning rather than books.
Q: What drives you to manifest your visions?
J: What drives me to manifest my visions is a feeling of becoming alive in the process of the very manifestation.
Q: What youve accomplished?
Shifting Reality
J: I went to the Digital Film Academy three years ago, and there I made Shifting Reality, starring Barbara Kreitmayer. Shifting Reality is a silent film about a departed soul who comes back one more time to say good bye and, in so doing, helps the surviving loved one to come out of the mourning period.
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Finding The Way
J: Last summer I shot Finding the Way, which starred Tonya Latrice, Bern Cohen, Thom Jordan and Jerome Gentolia. I am so proud of the fact that the cast and crew of Finding the Way came primarily from the ISE-NY network. This film is about breaking down the walls and misperceptions between African-American and Jewish people, while the main character pursues her dream.
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I See You
J: Last winter, Joana Verde and I co-wrote and starred in I See You. In the film, we play two homeless characters and their expression of the Meaning of Life.
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Stupid Game
J: In the film Stupid Game, directed by Nancy Yates, I had a lead role as a patient in a psychiatric institution, played with MG as a therapist and John Barilla as a nurse.
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Indigo Experience
J: In January, Pietro Tzoanini and I co-produced a documentary, Indigo Experience, in which I interviewed members of the audience after the NYC premiere of the movie Indigo.
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Q: Quite impressive. Where do you go from here?
J: Towards the present moment
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Q: What dreams and visions are you dancing with now, and where do you see it taking you?
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J: One of my current projects is the film Finding the Source, which will feature my Mom and me. It is a story about a woman trapped in an unsatisfactory pattern of life. In order to break the pattern and move on with her life, she embarks on a journey to the source - a journey that takes her as far back as her mother's womb, which ultimately sets her free. |
| J: Along similar lines, I am also writing a Science-Fiction (Spiritual) Feature film about children from another planet who are choosing their parents according to a lesson they want to teach. |
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J: Ive been writing a book Yugoslavian Identity & Other Fairy Tales, which is based on my own spiritual journey, and I am planning to publish it by the end of the year, and make a film based on the book. |
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J: Somewhere down the time line, I would also like to obtain a Ph.D. in either Spirituality or Consciousness (or something in that realm) through the educational program that I am co-creating. |
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My vision is also to touch and inspire every person I cross paths with to find their own vision and purpose in life that makes them feel alive and then to manifest that in reality...
* For further information about Jasmine's journey and her work, please visit www.lovejasmine.com
Related Programs of Interest
I. New Realities- Calendar of Events
May 6
"The Living Room" Open House & Chill Lounge 8pm til late, $5 or more donation lounge music, interpretive movement, live and cooked vegan food, open mic, massage tables, guided meditation, mini
*Want to present something? Perform? Do bodywork? Spiritual work? Network? Email or call Alan at alan@grandspace.com, 718.482.3185. Or just show up at the party!
IT'S A CARNIVAL OF HOLISTIC FUN. TELL YOUR FRIENDS - Grand Space is the hip place to hang.
May 6
Bhagavan Dass birthday parties
Bhagavan Dass turns 60 on May 17, 2005...and in honor of this special event, please join us for a special kirtan!!
Friday, May 6, 2005
New York City
Kirtan and BHAGAVAN DAS 60th Birthday Kirtan!
SPECIAL EVENT !!!
This extraordinary, once in a lifetime event will take place at the newly opened Rubin Museum of Art!
150 West 17 Street
Tickets: $25
www.rmanyc.org or 212.620.5000
**The Rubin Museum of Art is New York's newest museum. Opened on October 2nd, 2004, it is the first museum in the Western World dedicated to the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions. The museum's
mission is to establish, present, preserve and document a permanent collection that reflects the vitality, complexity and historical significance of Himalayan art.
May 14
WHO : YOGA UNVEILED movie screening
WHAT : NYYTA Members Meeting
WHERE : *Healthy Yoga* 540 West 27th St., 4th flr.
WHEN : May 14, 2005
TIME : 7PM movie screening
COST : FREE to NYYTA members /
$10 to general public
URL : http://YogaUnveiled.com
EMAIL : info@nyyta.org
PHONE : NYYTA members FREE reservation line: 212-615-6997
DESCRIPTION: Spring is upon us and NYYTA is hosting a very special event with *Healthy Yoga*: a screening of the movie "Yoga Unveiled".
This will be the last private screening of this film before it is released in theaters. We will watch part one together. Part one and two will be available to purchase on DVD at the screening.
Yoga Unveiled as part of the Enlightening Cinema Series
http://yogaunveiled.com/features.htm
May 22
Documentary movie
"The Phenomenon Bruno Groening".
Screening at the Millennium Film Workshop
66 E. 4th St.
New York, NY 10003
Seat reservation:
e-mail: contact@gh-film.org
phone: (212) 712 7401
starting at 2 pm, finishing around 7:30 pm, the movie is about 5 hours long.
We will have 2 intermissions (15 min. between part 1 and 30 min. between part 2 and 3:).
Healings have happened during showings of this movie.
"This movie is a gift to mankind. Having been so instructed, I assumed an open body position during the film and I did indeed feel tingling in my hands and then in my whole body. I felt some pulling in parts of my body that had been hurting, but I had a feeling as though something was being balanced. I suffered from bilateral scoliosis for many years, but no more. I was most impressed by this film. I am still allowing this healing energy to flow through me." --Miriam V.,Vienna, Austria
There is no specific charge for a ticket, but we ask for donations. If almost every seat is taken and every person pays on average $10, we will be able to cover the room costs.
See the film-trailer now:
Broadband: http://bruno-groening.de/english/film/dok100.wmv
Modem: http://bruno-groening.de/english/film/dok33.wmv
Dates, Places in North-America: http://gh-film.de/doku/en_termineindex.htm
Robert Freigassner
Phone: (917) 621-5708
219 W 81st St, #9B
New York, NY 10024
May 24-26
DHARMA DIALOGUES WITH CATHERINE INGRAM
Sponsored by the Spiritual Dimensions of Science and Consciousness Subcommittee of the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns, A Committee of the Conference of NGOs (CONGO); the United Religions Initiative-UN; the Values Caucus; the Spiritual Caucus; and the Earth Values Caucus at the UN
NEW YORK CITY
7:30 - 9:30 pm
One Spirit Learning Alliance
330 W. 38th Street, Suite 1500
N.Y., NY
Donation: $15
Info: 212.222.3933
LivingDharma@comcast.net
New Realities Television Programming May 2005
Interviews with: Elizabeth McGowan from the Bruno Goering healing circle of friends, Dario Salias from the Institute for Hermetic Philosophy, Ariel and Shya Kane of Instantaneous Transformation, and Kahu Fred Sterling.
New Realities is seen on Time/Warner television in Manhattan every Thursday night at 7:00pm on channel 57.
Some programs have been archived at www.emerald-energies.com and for a list of past guests go to www.newrealitiestv.com
While ISE-NY, Inc., supports all of the Spiritual Entertainment Community members, ISE-NY, Inc. is not affiliated with the aforementioned individual projects. ISE-NY, Inc. is providing a platform for the community to announce projects and network with other members of the community and to be kept informed of other programs being offered in the NY area.
Links
ISE-NY's Film Making Circle: http://www.FilmMakingCircle.com
The Spiritual Cinema Circle: http://www.spiritualcinemacircle.com
New York City Spirit: http://www.nycspirit.com
Los Angeles Spiritual Cinema Circle Community: http://ww.ise-la.org
Rensselaerville Spiritual Cinema Circle Community: http://www.GardenofOne.com
Damah Film Festival: http://www.damah.org
Writers Boot Camp: http://www.writersbootcamp.com
Good News Broadcasting: http://www.goodnewsbroadcast.com
The New Seminary: http://www.NewSeminary.org
St. John's University: http://new.stjohns.edu/campus/manhattan
New Realities Television: http://www.newrealitiestv.com
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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