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From a synopsis of the movie: | Bhopal, India, where the chemical leak at the Union Carbide plant killed thousands of people in 1984. He visited a holistic health clinic founded by survivors and |
| Cambodia, where the genocidal Khmer Rouge killed millions of people in a massive genocide. He found a former child soldier who now clears anti-personnel mines. |
| Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina the site of an inter-religious genocide that killed hundreds of thousands of Muslims, Roman Catholics and Serbian Orthodox believers in the 1990s. He found a couple creating art forms from the castoffs of war. |
| Afghanistan where fundamentalist Muslims oppressed the population for years. He found a Sufi musician who was prohibited from singing by the Taliban, but who "found a novel way to keep his life filled with music." 2 He filled his home with songbirds. |
| New York City, the site of the 911 attack on the twin trade towers. There, he met a Buddhist priest who taught him to "Breathe in suffering; breathe out compassion." |
Other sites visited were Wounded Knee, Israel, Palestine, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima.
Awards:
As of 2005-OCT, ScaredSacred and its director have received nine awards:
| Special jury prize at the Toronto International Film Festival |
| Top ten films of 2004 at the Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2004 |
| Best film at the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival |
| Audience award (runner-up) at the Vancouver International Film Festival |
| Best of the festival - programmers' choice at the Florida Film Festival 2005 |
| Best documentary at the Whistler International Film Festival, 2004 |
| Best documentary (2nd Place), Best Canadian Picture (2nd Place), Best Canadian Director (2nd Place) at the Vancouver Critics Circle Awards |
Film data:
| Writer, cinematographer, editor, sound designer, narrator, and director: Velcrow Ripper |
| Produced by: Cari Green & Harry Sutherland of Producers on Davie Pictures, and Tracey Friesen of the National Film Board of Canada |
| Initial release date: 200 |
| Length: 104 minutes, 53 seconds. |
| First showing in the in Vancouver, BC, Canada on 2005-SEP-06 |
| National launch in Toronto, ON and Calgary AB, Canada on 2005-OCT-21. |
| First TV viewing: 2005-OCT-26, 9 PM ET on Vision TV (Canada only) |
Some comments by reviewers and others:
| The film was given the special jury prize at the Toronto International Film Festival with the citation: "For taking the audience on a very personal journey that has universal resonance in a time of paranoia and uncertainty and for finding hope in moments of despair." |
| The Province: "Remarkably moving, strikingly beautiful and surprisingly hopeful...Ripper's startling images of destruction and resilience often arrive so unexpectedly that you're kept on the edge of your seat. The film looks at disputes without rhetoric, providing testimonials that will break your heart. But nothing that happens here will break the human spirit. Anyone who sees this movie will be the better for it." |
| The Courier: "A must see!" |
| Daryl Hannah, Actor/Activist: "An inspiring, beautiful film that left an indelible impact on me." |
| Atom Egoyan: "ScaredSacred conveys a sense of spirit and longing, harnessed with a compassionate sense of urgency." |
| National Film Board: "Through stunning, evocative footage we visit places that have witnessed some of the darkest moments in human history: the minefields of Cambodia, post-9/11 New York City, the toxic wasteland of Bhopal, wartorn Afghanistan, Hiroshima, Bosnia, Israel and Palestine. In each place, we meet people striving to transform tragedy into hope.....ScaredSacred is an exquisite portrait of a search for meaning in times of turmoil and the human potential for survival and enlightenment." |
Ordering the movie:
Copies can be shipped to Canadian addresses. However, the National Film Board appears to be unable to send it to other countries at this time. Amazon.com does not stock it. As of 2005-OCT, the documentary is only available on VHS tape.
| Go to the store on the National Film Board's web site at: http://www.nfb.ca/ |
| Answer the two questions on the NFB Store form. |
| Do a search by title for "Scared Sacred" (with a space) |
References used:
- "Synopsis | ScaredSacred," Scared Sacred Films Inc., at: http://www.scaredsacred.org/
- "ScaredSacred," Vision TV, at: http://www.visiontv.ca/
- See the movie trailer in Windows media or Quicktime at: http://www.scaredsacred.org/
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Copyright © 2005 by Ontario Consultants on Religious
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Originally written: 2005-OCT-19
Latest update: 2005-OCT-19
Author: B.A. Robinson
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