Blessed Unrest: The Film

Never again will a single story be told as if it were the only one.
-John Berger

 

For the first time in history a film is about to jump from home page to the global stage with the click of a button. BLESSED UNREST: THE FILM is an unprecedented event that harbors the potential to launch an entirely new genre of filmmaking and create a revolutionary infrastructure and social technology for global dialogue, collaboration and cooperation in media. BLESSED UNREST: THE FILM is set to inaugurate a new era in citizen filmmaking, journalism and storytelling, lowering the barrier of entry into filmmaking, media tools and venues like never before.

 

 

The film is inspired by Paul Hawken's New York Times bestseller BLESSED UNREST How The Largest Movement In The World Is Restoring Grace, Justice and Beauty to the World. The film is our eyes and ears inside the movement at the “front lines” of the seismic re-shaping of our world, from the Bronx to Botswana, to the beat, pulse and potential of Gen-Y, letting us in on the massive changes from the inside out. It is (r)evolution in the flesh, urgent and blessed: real-life, real-time, life-and-death stakes stories of rebirth, resistance, redress, restoration and non-violence. BLESSED UNREST: THE FILM is the story of ordinary folks who, in scaling Promethean heights in the fight to save their village, their families, their lives, our planet, mirror our own dreams for a better world and so become balm and body for our own yearning souls looking for ways out of injustice and into hope.


BLESSED UNREST: THE FILM is created entirely on the film’s website, synthesizing film submissions hailing from every corner of the globe into one central narrative with multiple threads to develop a plotline with “characters” we grow to know and who are irrevocably and forever changing everything about their world--and ours. The site enables users to partake in collaborative editing in micro-communities devoted to certain themes set up by our directorial and editorial team. With the full resolution source tagging married to this collaborative editing interface, the film studio is complete—your laptop.

 

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