Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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1 9 9 9 PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
Living on the Edge Duration 52 min. Scriptwriter: Jan Horn, Cathy ODowd, and lan Woodall Director: Jan Horn Producer: lan Woodali Methodist Minister Andre Le Roux tells of his hopes and fears, and his relationship with God and the church, during his epic battle with the elements while attempting to climb Mount Everest, the highest Mountain in the world, situated in the foreign world of Hinduism and Buddhism.
4:00PM If God Be For Us Duration 55 min. Director: Kevin Harris This documentary video looks at role of the church in the political struggle for a united and democratic South Africa.
4.00PM Sacred Hunger Duration 75 min. In this beautiful tape Gangaji, an enlightened spiritual master who lives and teaches in America, talks about how we have all looked to religion to satisfy our hunger for religion...and then away from religion and then back to religion. What this sacred hunger is, is for us to know who we are.
5:00PM Up in Smoke Duration 26 min. Produced by Maganthrie Pillay and Dingi Ntuli of Hybrid Films This documentary examines the legal battle of Gareth Prince, a Rastafarian and lawyer, with the Constitutional Rights Court and the Law Society, it also demystifies the rastafari movement, a world-wide movement whose holy sacrament is cannabis. The rights of minority religions in South Africa are explored.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5TH 10:00AM Promise of the Moon Duration 24 min. Producer/Director: Jan Horn for SABC Issues of Faith Are discovery of the spirituality of the San through their rock art and oral tradition.
Men Amongst Men Duration 24 min. Producer/Director: Jan Horn for SABC Issues of Faith Producer Jan Horn explores the almost forgotten mythology of the Bushmen and discovers fascinating similarities between that and Christianity's account of Creation.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4TH 10:00AM The Ways of Our Fathers Duration 4 x 26 min. Produced by Maarten Turkstra who will be present to address questions. 1 - Overview of African Traditional Spirituality: Seven
distinctive qualities of the ways of our fathers. Discussion of the African conception of Divinity, myths
of origin and the thereafter. 2 - The Community: Initiation rites; the role of the kgotla
(the tribal elders) and of the chiefs: Ubuntu (we
belong therefore I am). 3- The Ancestors: the rites of passage and their socio
religious functions. 4- Sacred Practitioners: Sangomas, Inyangas, Dingakas
their calling, training and function in the community. 2:00PM Unfinished Business Duration 24 min. x2 Producer/Director: Kevin Harris for SABC Issues of Faith A two-part documentary which follows the search by Joe Seremane for truth and reconciliation as he tries to uncover the facts surrounding the execution of his brother by the ANC at Ouattro. This program speaks directly to the anguish of forgiveness
11:00AM The Sacred Spaces Duration 23 min. Ten years of TV documentary filming with the SAN people of Southern Africa have taught Jan Horn the values of the Sacred Spaces practiced by these -- the first-people. Climbing Mount Everest in 1998, he found these values mirrored in the shrines of Tibet and Nepal.
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In God's Places Duration 28 min. Directed by Richard Whickstead An exploration of the spiritual and cultural legacy of the bushmen in the southern Drakensberg.
3:00PM This Crazy Thing Called Grace: Desmond Tutu and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Duration 40 min. Produced/Directed by Joelle Cheselet and Craig Mathews of Doxa Productions, SA The aim of this documentary is to communicate the synthesis Desmond Tutu has made in his own mind of politics, liberation, African-ness and the practice and dedicated interpretation of the Christian faith in the context of a South Africa in full transition.
2:00PM The Great Dance Duration 52 min., with a brief introduction by the director Craig Fosters. Craig Foster (Earthwise Films) and Damon Foster (Liquid Pictures) specialize in an organic style of filmmaking designed
ulate the viewers deep sense of animals, landscape and fellow human beings. The Great Dance focuses on trackers of the Kalahari (Co-produced with Discovery, National Geographic and TBS) which has led to the use of miniature cameras mounted in unusual places, sometimes on animals. The idea was inspired by the Gwi trackers' extreme ability to project their minds into the animals they hunt. Craig and Damon work closely with executive producers Ellen
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