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Entheogen is Released on DVD May 18, 2007
Check out the NEW trailer...
www.entheogen.tv/media/trailer.mov
Critical Mass Productions Announces The Release of Entheogen:Awakening the Divine Within
Award Winning Documentary at its first Hollywood Premiere Opens Minds to the Evolution of Planetary Consciousness
PALO ALTO, CA (May 15, 2007) — Critical Mass Productions (CMP Group Inc) announced today the commercial DVD release of the award winning documentary Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within. A breakthrough synesthetic film experience, this feature-length documentary weaves an electrifying tapestry of audio and visual imagery that transcends traditional documentary storytelling. Through interviews with leading countercultural thinkers and artists, the film invites the viewer to rediscover an enchanted cosmos by awakening to the divine within.
Entheogen examines the modern day crisis of disenchantment associated with living in a hyper modern world, integrating ancient history, philosophy, science and emerging technology to draw the audience toward new existential possibilities. Weaving together images and interviews of ecological awareness, tribal dance culture, shamanism and the current evaluation of entheogenic compounds, the film documents the emergence of techno-shamanism and the evolution of man kind. Exploring themes ranging from archaic cosmologies to the collective consciousness of the Internet, the thinkers and artists in the film, including Stan Grof, Marilyn Schiltz, Terence Mckenna, Alex Grey, Ralph Metzner, John Markoff, Daniel Pinchbeck, and Kat Harrison postulate the potential for the next leap in planetary consciousness.
Entheogen will be released on DVD on May 18th, following a string of pre-release screenings that have garnered critical acclaim. The film won Best Documentary at Hollywood’s Brilliant Light Film Festival, its festival premiere. The film was also screened in Park City during the Sundance Film Festival at Mindbender, an eclectic event that integrated the screening with interactive artistic and musical performances that sustained some 600 initiates until dawn.
“I would say that this film is coming forth as an expression of the democratization of film production that has enabled the ‘cultural creatives’ to produce films of high production quality with less capital than would have been necessary even a few years ago. The film has been a labor of love, an ‘open source’ dialogue that has enabled the technologically empowered younger generation of countercultural thinkers to engage with and synthesize the wisdom and experience of the elders of this community. We’re honored that so many of these pioneers have participated in this project, and excited about sharing this vision of the concrescence of a new participatory definition of flow through hip hop, through poetry, through dance, art, psychedelics, etc., as it evolves via ongoing events that will emerge organically through the globally interconnected information sphere.” said Rod Mann, director of the film and CMP Group Founder.
For more information about the upcoming release of Entheogen, CMP Group, and future festivals and screening productions, please visit us at www.entheogen.tv.
To view the new trailer: www.entheogen.tv/media/trailer.mov
Contact: Katy Saeger
310-597-2337
katysaeger@gmail.com
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posted 05/17/07
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