Velcrow Ripper's Blog – May 2009 Archive (6)

Dear fierce friends:



Congratulations – we did it!!! Fierce Light is held over in Vancouver and Montreal, and expands to two screens in Toronto Friday! Thanks to all of you who've played a part in Fierce Light having an outstanding first weekend!



Now we need to build momentum, and prove to the cynics out there that a film about hope, compassion, and possibility is needed in this time of crisis. Let's crash the gates of the gatekeepers!



Audience responses have… Continue

In the face of a world in crisis, I dare to care. In the face of materialism, consumerism, and me me me - ism, I recognize that I am because you are, that without you and you and you - plant animal mineral macro micro organism human- I would not exist. That we are all part of a brilliant multi hued tapestry, that we all add to the warp and weave and woof, that we all have a fierce light.



In the face of irony, cynicism, jadedness and despair, I choose hope.… Continue

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Nice little interview with clips from Scared Sacred and Fierce Light on The Movie Network (TMN)

For the accomplished warrior, belief is not a form of strategy, nor is it borrowing the stories of previous warriors from books and stories. Trying to theorize and borrow ideas doesn't seem to help. The notion of belief, or view, here is based on complete simplicity. Your view is not affected by liberalism or conservatism, nihilism or eternalism, at all. Your view is straightforward and simple; it is almost a cosmic domestic view. It is the notion of complete simplicity. When you meet a person,… Continue

THE PUNK ROCKER WITH INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH SPIRITUALITY



-Guy Dixon, The Globe and Mail

May 14, 2009



If rockers were the cultural gurus of the sixties, and techies like Steve Jobs and Nicholas Negroponte were the nineties’ watered-down version, documentary filmmakers may very well be emerging as the new prognosticators of where we’re headed.



Velcrow Ripper, the 45-year-old filmmaker with the part-punk, part-New Age pseudonym who lives on the Toronto Islands,… Continue

FIERCE LIGHT: WHEN SPIRIT MEETS ACTION



From the Director of Scared Sacred & The Producer of The Corporation



A Feature Documentary by award winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper





"A SPIRITUAL KALEIDOSCOPE OF HOPE AND JOY. UPLIFTING!" ~ Green Muze Magazine



"HUGELY ENGAGING AND VISUALLY DELIGHTFUL." ~ Toronto Sun



"A POETIC CALL TO HEARTFELT ACTION." ~ Common Ground



IN THEATRES ACROSS CANADA MAY… Continue