A Watch Party was hosted by Della Burford in Canada zia zoom to
learn more about The Film Forum taking called l “I AM PEACE”
Oct 3-7th 2022 in Colombia.
People had a chance to meet the filmmaker Julian Ramirez (3-D and Designer) who created the
animated film of Dellas’ book “Star Galaxy for the World.” The Film Forum’s
Intent is for Collaborative Activities, Youth Activism, and
Innovative partnerships.
The Youth Activism component featured by many young filmmakers and
one was Canadian Kasha Slavner Sequoia who presented “Sunrise Storytellers”.
There is also “Play and Fun for Peace” which has a light hearted approach.
Social impact is also felt in the “Message from the Kogi Tribe” who are in
the Don Diego River Basin and includes many important messages for the world.
The Departments of the university include Medicine, Social Science, Philosophy and Law. In the Medicine category for films was the “Youth Health Champion”.

In the Healing and Transformation category was Dehanna Rice’s film of “Breath of Peace”. Also transformational was a film about” Hildegard of Bingen” by Michael M. Conti. Enjoyed the art film called Spontaneous by Susan Bello and fascinated by the 'Peace Angels" sculpture made from weapons which were confiscated made by artist Lin Evola.

Another category was Giving Peace a Chance and in this category was a film about a “Universal Peace Sanctuary”being visioned by his Emminece Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche. A beautiful plan in the making in Nepal.

Peace Education was highlighted and shown in the Film about what the people of Cameroon are doing with the children in the schools.

Many short films are in the Imagine Peace category including “Star Galaxy for The World”. This is a film about finding peace, kindness, gratitude and creativity to strengthen ourselves and the planet.
There are many films in this category and and we have shown the graphics for a few like Fire against Fire, Gambia - Peace Core, Hole Hearted and You are not alone.We gave a link that took people to the I AM PEACE website to really explore the many more in this category.

In the Saved by a Whale film a story was told of Nan Hauser who is the president of the Center for Cetacean Research and Conservation she storytells being saved by being put on the head of a whale when a tiger shark came. She works with undersea creatures and shared the fact that whales have been studied and have a lot of empathy.

As a response to the animation of ‘Star Galaxy for the World” sound specialist and Creative and Innovation Coach Clare Hedin created a poem called “There is a Fabric” .
Film maker Julian Ramirez mentioned how important collaboration was in developing Star Galaxy for the World. Struppi and his music improvisation and diversity was mentioned. Julian mentioned he enjoyed working with the organic art of both Della and Dale. Also the importance of the collaboration with Freeman from the Big Blast Band on the Technical aspect of the Voice Over was praised.

We were thrilled to have so many very special people come to the Watch Party. What an amazing group of people. This included Julian Ramirez ( 3-D, Designer) Dale Bertrand (Historical Research- Producer (Mitch Gold (architect of Home Planet, Russell Coull (mind expansion adventurer) - , Freeman ( Big Blast Band, Andrea Turrell (Yoga teacher, artist), Allycia Ucello (Artist and Sculptor), Wallace Murray ( Facilitator, Coaching}, Harlan ( Galactic Technology) , Harri Maki ( Music Producer), Jonathan D. Van Meter ( Recording and Prep for Broadcast) , Mark Smith (Eleprocon - Land of Insideout) , Meena - {Dancer - Japan}, Michael Bray (managment) , Curt McNamara (Educator and Mentor), Laurien Towers (Producer of Live Aid fame), Clare Hedin( Creative and Innovative Coach} and many more who said they are interested in looking at the video later. Thanks everyone - you are all special to us. We are all looking forward to more in the future for the next I AM PEACE film forums.

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