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FIERCE LIGHT: WHEN SPIRIT MEETS ACTION

Fueled by the belief that another world is possible, director Velcrow Ripper heads out on a global journey to trace spiritual activism’s historical roots and uncover modern manifestations of what Martin Luther King called “love in action” what Gandhi called “soul force” and what Ripper calls “fierce light.” In FierceLight: Where Spirit Meets Action, Ripper meets the greatest spiritual activists in the world today, witnessing the fierce light that gives them hope and power in an era of turmoil and transformation.

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Velcrow Ripper
Director

In the 30 films and videos he has directed since 1979, Velcrow Ripper has explored the areas of human rights and the environment. His films include the Genie-award winning feature documentary Bones of the Forest (1995), In the Company of Fear (1999) and Open Season (1998). Ripper also did the sound design on the 2003 feature documentary, The Corporation. ScaredSacred (2004), where Ripper travels to the world’s ground zeros of destruction and resilience in search of stories of transformation, won numerous awards including a Genie for best feature documentary and a Jury Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.

35 mm

90 minutes

Colour

Aspect ratio

1.85

Original version in English

Producers

Cherilyn Hawrysh

Gerry Flahive

Mark Achbar

Betsy Carson

Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Editor and Sound Designer

Velcrow Ripper

With

Thich Nhat Hahn

Wangari Maathai

Desmond Tutu

Starhawk

Daryl Hannah

Alice Walker

Noah Levine

Production

FierceLight Films Inc.
65 Heward Ave.
Suite A206
Toronto Ontario
M4M 2T5
Canada
(416) 893-9799
(416) 461-9480
fiercelightfilms@fiercelight.org
www.fiercelight.org