Hello Alive Mind Friends,

With its recent win of Best Revival of a Musical at the Tony Awards, why not check out the definitive and entertaining documentary HAIR: Let the Sun Shine In, a perfect DVD for any HAIR musical enthusiast? The DVD includes one hour of bonus material featuring interviews with original stage and revival cast members, author/lyricist James Rado, and much, much more. Hailed by Jeffrey Kaufmann of DVD Talk as “a fascinating journey down memory lane with many of the people that created and performed in the musical,” our DVD is a collector’s must have.

In other news, our award-winning documentary FlicKeR had its New York City premiere at the Anthology Film Archives, with special guest DJ Spooky and filmmaker Nik Sheehan in attendance. FLicKeR tells the story of the influential yet little-known artist Brion Gysin (1916-1986), and his amazing dream machine, a drug-free way to achieve altered states of mind through dancing pulses of light, which he and his friends believed would revolutionize human consciousness. San Francisco Weekly called it a “rare documentary that jumps beyond informative and entertaining into the realm of mind-expanding, FLicKeR blends revelatory biography, energizing philosophy, and seductive trances.” Read more about FLicKeR below. To screen this film online, buy a ticket for $4.95. When you receive your ticket number along with confirmation of purchase, go to the Screening Room, select FLicKeR from the pull down menu, and enter the ticket number. The ticket is good for one week. After this, the price of the ticket can be applied to your purchase of the DVD.

Also notable is Intangible Asset #82, which screens July 17th at this year’s SilverDocs. In a Q&A on the SilverDocs website, filmmaker Emma Franz described her film as a “demonstration of how people from completely disparate walks of life can communicate through music.” Preview now for $4.95 by clicking here and apply the price towards the upcoming DVD release, later this summer. When you receive your ticket number along with confirmation of purchase, go to the Screening Room, select Intangible Asset from the pull down menu, and enter the ticket number.

In recent releases, Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action marks its debut on DVD, available exclusively to Alive Mind subscribers. The film chronicles acclaimed filmmaker Velcrow Ripper Ripper’s journey to document examples of spiritual activism, what Dr. King called “Love in Action,” and Gandhi called “Soul Force.” Calgary’s FFWD Magazine called it “Beautiful, poetic, powerful and important. It almost never happens, you finish watching a film and as the credits roll you think ‘everyone should see this film. But everyone (and I mean everyone) should see Fierce Light.” Preview online by purchasing your ticket here, or buy your copy now by clicking here.

Also, a recent op-ed piece by Ray Hanania in The Jerusalem Post makes specific mention of our series Arab Labor. Hanania says “I laughed hysterically. Not at the racism portrayed by each side, but rather at the way that real life deals with these anomalies in our tenuous existence,” adding, “It’s not really an Israeli version of Jerry Seinfeld, the Jewish American actor whose mother is a Syrian-Jew (making him my favorite Arab comedian, by the way). It’s more like the 1960s and 70s American TV sitcom, All in the Family, where race and race issues were ripped apart to make a social point.” Now Available exclusively from Alive Mind, purchase your copy here.

The Huffington Post also notes our film Absolutely Safe in the article “Are Breast Implants “Absolutely Safe?” The article, by Marcia G. Yerman, is an extensive look at the debate on the safety of breast augmentation, a specific point the film addresses. Filmmaker Carol Ciancutti-Leyva is currently drafting legislation for informed consent to be a legal requirement. Show your support either by visiting Carol’s site and learning more, or by purchasing a copy of the film today by clicking here!

As our films continue to make appearances, recent screenings include Fierce Light, which screened at Noetic conference in Tucson, June 17th through the 21st, the Santa Fe Film Center, the Maui Film Festival, and the Waterfront Film Festival in Michigan with an appearance by actress Daryl Hannah. Intangible Asset also screened at the Santa Fe Film Center through June 24th. Finally, The Gates will be screening at the Circle Cinema in Tulsa July 11th through the 17th, with Christo, one of the artists behind the installation, in attendance. Visit the Alive Mind site to learn more about upcoming events!

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