S P O N S O R S

If you are bringing children with you, please know that they are most welcome.

All children under 10 years of age can attend for free. Children between 10-13 years pay $50 for Friday evening, all of Saturday and Sunday's screenings and 50% ($37.50) discount for Sunday night's Gala Dinner and Ceremony (please remember that the attire for this event is formal)

Children 14 years to 18 years receive a 50% ($125) discount off the admission fees for the entire weekend (includes Sunday evenings gala dinner and ceremony).

There are some guidelines which we urge you to follow:

1. You agree to montor your children's behaviour and safety at all times and you will be solely responsible for their whereabouts and safety.


2. We will do our very best to provide a room with tables, chairs etc and suggest that you provide them with a TV and DVD/Video player, reading, colouring and drawing material and board games.


3. Although we cannot guarantee that we will have a separate room for children ( this raises the cost of the venue considerably) if we do end up having one, you will be asked to check on them frequently and you will be the only adults allowed in the room besides our staff. Please remember to bring activities for them to engage in.

Although I have made this provision for these precious beings please note that they are your responsibility and that neither I, my staff, the location facility or its employees , The Raw Film Festival, Serenity Spaces, nor any of our sponsors can be held responsible for them.

I will not have a special room for them at the Woman's Club of Hollywood where we will hold the Gala Dinner and Ceremony( just too costly), but there is plenty of room for them to have fun.

Thanks for adhering to these guidelines.

Dorit, Raw Lifestyle Film Festival Founder/Organizer

FILMS SELECTED FOR THE 2008 RAW LIFESTYLE FILM FESTIVAL

Download the schedule of the films to be shown

Category: Raw Length Title 60 min Healing Cancer From Inside Out This outstanding film courageously shows how cancer can be successfully addressed and the person experiencing cancer healed with dietary treatments and natural supplementation. Filmmaker: Mike Anderson 10 min The Adventures of Rawman & Green-Girl A new breed of Superhero has emerged to save us from our ecological shortsightedness, and those that would abuse our world for their own benefit. Filmmaker: Ron Gilmore 37 min Going Raw Is a film that explores the reasons for eating raw & living food and demonstrates how to produce super-healthy and tasty food with minimal equipment and ingredients. Master raw and living food chef Minh Nguyen teaches simple step-by-step recipes. Filmmakers: Matt Skurow, Ronnie Skurow 90 min Raw for Life 30 leaders and well-known personalities explain why and how to go raw. Filmmaker: Mark Perlmutter 90 min Reversing the Irreversible A collection of incredible interviews with people who have naturally healed their bodies from cancer, osteoporosis, fibromyalgia and other diseases. These brave people disclose the means by which they accomplished these feats, and show what getting healthier really looks like. Filmmaker: Valya Boutenko 60 min Traveling and Living Foods with Dr. Ann Wigmore Dr. Ann Wigmore, pioneer of Raw Living Foods, discusses the challenges one faces when traveling and desires to stay raw. She discusses foods that travel well after preparation, good types of storage containers, and many of the solutions she has found during her years of raw traveling around the world. Filmed at Creative Health Instittute. Filmmaker: TheCreative Health Institute Staff

Category: Auxilliary Length Title 110 min All Jacked Up exposes the angst of teenagers who discover the truth about their obsessive, addictive, and emotion-driven eating habits. All this brought on by their parents, schools, and an abusive food system profiting from them with no regard for their well-being. The teens are challenged to come to grips with their harmful lifestyles and what their unhealthy future holds. This frank and witty look at what’s really going on inside the bodies, hearts and minds of the teen generation opens their eyes to how they can live a more healthy and meaningful life. How jacked up do our kids have to get before they notice what we’re doing to them? Filmmakers: Jennifer Mattox, Douglas Clemons 90 min You Can Heal Your Life This entertaining and inspirational movie based on the best-selling book of the same name is hosted by author and teacher Louise L. Hay. It gives penetrating insights into Louise's fascinating personal story; and shows how her views on self-esteem, abundance, and the metaphysical causes behind physical ailments were developed. It also reveals how she applied these concepts to her own emotional, spiritual, and professional life. A number of luminaries in the fields of self-help, philosophy, health, spirituality, and New Thought join Louise, giving their take on success, happiness, and the myriad ways in which people can heal their own lives. Filmmakers: Michael Goorjian 100 min Mad Cowboy Based on the best-selling book: Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher who won't eat meat. This film is a biography of former rancher-turned-environmentalist Howard Lyman. His journey has led him to organic agriculture, vegetarianism, and the politics as well as the tragedy of mad cow disease. Filmmakers: Howard Lyman, Michael Tobias 60 min Curing Cancer covers the failing of conventional cancer treatments, the history of the cancer industry and the suppression of alternative treatments. From Mike Anderson the filmmaker of "Eating" which won an award at last year's Raw Lifestyle Film Festival. Filmmaker: Mike Anderson 60 min A Sacred Duty This film shows that applying values taught by ancient Hebrew texts will help to heal our imperiled planet. The movie considers threats from global climate change and animal-based agriculture’s contributions to this crisis. In the vein of "An Inconvenient Truth," the film reminds us that it is our sacred duty to become aware of these realities and our responsibility to apply Jewish teachings to how we obtain our food, use natural resources, and live peacefully with all other creatures. Filmmakers: Lionel Friedberg, Richard Schwartz 94 min Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World will reveal one of the most pervasive, insidious forms of corporate negligence in the history of the industrial revolution The toxic long-term effects of aspartame are often dismissed as a "hoax" by the sweetener industry. The real footwork, however, unravels something less comforting than a mere "hoax". Filmmakers: Cori Brackett, J.T. Waldron 8 min The Toxic Inspector "Toxic Kitchen" In this hilarious film, the Toxic Inspector makes a visit to an average person's kitchen where he finds a plethora of pesticide ridden, processed products camouflaged and labelled as food. Filmmakers: Ahman Dolphini, Djehuty Ma'at-Ra 93 min Vegan Fitness Built Naturally This film features the lives of three successful vegan athletes: natural bodybuilder Robert Cheeke, professional Ironman Tri-athlete Brendan Brazier and professional dancer Tonya Kay. All aspects of their lives are covered including what they eat, their nutrition programs, where they shop, how they prepare meals, their training programs and lifestyles. Filmmakers: Kyle Bucy, Eric Brown 104 min Baraka, an ancient Sufi word with forms in many languages, translates as a blessing, or as the breath or essence, of life from which the evolutionary process unfolds. A transcendently poetic tour of the globe, Baraka was shot in breathtaking 70mm in 24 countries on six continents. Filmmakers: Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson

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Victoras Kulvinskas
To experience a true pioneer as Victoras Kulvinskas in the holistic health field is a rare treat. In 1970, Viktoras left behind his consulting business with the likes of the Apollo Mission, M.I.T., Smithsonian and Harvard and co-founded Hippocrates Health Institute with Dr Ann Wigmore in Boston. Soon afterwards he developed the Hippocrates Health Institute Live Food program that has helped millions of people and their pets around the world regain their health by using living foods. He is known as the Father of Wheat Grass Therapy. In 1976, he authored Survival Into the 21st Century.which has been a guiding force for so many around the world. His visionary gifts are too numerous to mention. As well as serving as an educator worldwide, a chef, researcher, and author, he is also an ordained Bishop of the Essene Tradition. Viktoras is noted as a mentor by Gabriel Cousins, M.D., Dick Gregory, Dr. Smokey Santillo, Karyn Calabrese, Dr Brian Clement, Dr Edward Howell, and many others. Viktoras’ vision will guide you to Thrive in the 21st Century. Bring your books to be signed or purchase a new book during the film festival. Vitkoras updated and reprinted Survival into the 21st century in 2006 adding new information and research.