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In Love with Ally Barker

In Love with Ally Barker is a lesbian love story and a brooding, psychological thril.  It strikes all the right notes to make an indie horror hit.  College aged Ally and Sara are neighbors who fall in love, and then Sara motivates Ally to seek violent revenge against an abuser in her life.  Coming-of-age, girl-next-door, revenge.  It’s a trip.  The emotional nuance, and the muddied moral drama, are portrayed elegantly by writer Stefan Meza and the directing Smellin brothers.

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Chasing Monsters

Jeana McTabe and Jordan McTavish have made a beautiful documentary about a former Ontario superior court judge who now has Lewy Body Dementia, a form of Parkinson’s.  He experiences eery hallucinations as a consequence of his condition, and so he makes paintings to ease his mind.  He has become an ambassador for those of us suffering from Parkinson’s, and also provides a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit.  

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Uprooting Addiction

Today’s featured films are on the theme of new looks at healing.  A fine example is a documentary called Uprooting Addiction that features the work of Hope Payson, a trauma and addiction expert.  It uses the image of tree roots to describe the effects of trauma, and the resulting methods of successful recovery from deeply complicated and interconnected individual psychological issues.  This documentary asserts that the social issues that create individuals who are addicted to toxic things are as interconnected and complex as the personal issues that compel individuals to return to the toxin they are attached to.  The healing methods that are being pioneered are shown to involve highly complicated and individual efforts that depend on the complex web of interconnections and mutual dependence that we all experience as humans.  

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This year’s Awareness Film Festival will be hosted on a fantastic platform, Filmocracy, in our Virtual Village! Just because there is a pandemic and social distancing, doesn’t mean that we are not hosting a creative social experience. As at every AFF, there will be numerous world premieres of films centering around themes of healing. All proceeds from the festival will go to Heal One World, a non-profit that offers holistic healing through yoga and acupuncture, et al, to all regardless of income.

Be sure to come and take advantage of the social experiences in our virtual village! There will be loads of fun group activities, like charades!, that will break the ice even through your computer’s screen.

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These Adorable Orphaned Baby Sloths Don’t Have Moms, so They Cling Onto Stuffed Animals

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This is important. Stop big cat hunting. This literally is making me cry. 

The way the lion tries to shut out the light…

:Why would you shoot it?

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Homemade vegan ice magic (coconut oil + dark chocolate) with homemade vegan chia seed icecream (chia seeds + banana + coconut oil + walnut butter)

This was the most exciting dessert. My partner had never experienced Ice Magic before this.

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Full Trailer: Awareness Film Festival 2014

featuring music by Paul Freeman

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Our first trailer for Awareness Festival 2014!

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Deconstructing Masculinity & Manhood with Michael Kimmel @ Dartmouth College

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check out our donation based yoga and meditation classes at healoneworld.org

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Imagine a tree that grows 40 kinds of fruit Using a common technique called grafting, artist Sam Van Aken is developing a tree that bears a variety of different fruits.

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Vegan Beet Entree & Side Round Up

Vegan Beet Burger with Cashew Cheese & Quick Pickled Beets

Beet & Avocado Soup with Cashew Cream (raw)

Roasted Beet & Orange Dip with Walnuts

Beet Gnocchi & Parsley Cashew Pesto

Spiced Beet Fritters (GF)

Roasted Beet, Blood Orange & Fennel Pizza with Mixed Herb Tofu Chèvre

Sweet Beet Hash with Hollandaise Sauce (GF)

Beetballs (GF/SF)

Golden Beetroot Risotto (GF)

Balsamic Roasted Beet & Rosemary Cashew Cheese Phyllo Tart

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Magical Paths Begging To Be Walked

Roads and paths pervade our literature, poetry, artwork, linguistic expressions and music. Even photographers can’t keep their eyes (and lenses) off of a beautiful road or path, which is why we collected this list of 28 amazing photos of paths.

Paths like these have a powerful grip on the human imagination – they can bring adventure, promise and change or solitude, peace and calm. There’s nothing like a walk down a beautiful path to clear your head – or to fill it with ideas!

I’ll leave you with an excellent quote from J. R. R. Tolkien’s works while you enjoy these images; “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.“

Autumn In The White Carpathians

Rhododendron Laden Path, Mount Rogers, Virginia, USA

Spring In Hallerbos Forest, Belgium

Autumn Path In Kyoto, Japan 

Autumn Path

Bamboo Path In Kyoto, Japan

Hitachi Seaside Park Path In Japan

Dark Hedges In Ireland

Winter Forest Path, Czech Republic

Path Under Blooming Trees In Spring