We are Re/Culture Films: a trio of visionary artists who joined forces to co-create together.
Ian MacKenzie is an award-winning filmmaker & media activist based near Vancouver, Canada. His work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic TV, CBC Documentary, The Globe and Mail, Adbusters, and film festivals around the world. He is the director of the recent short Lost Nation Road (2019) featuring Stephen Jenkinson and is the co-director of Amplify Her (2018) following the rise of the feminine in electronic music. He co-produced Velcrow Ripper’s feature film Occupy Love (2013), and directed the short films Reactor (2013) and Sacred Economics (2012). Ian’s short The Revolution Is Love (2011) was named one of the top 10 Occupy films to watch that year.
John Wolfstone is a filmmaker, ritualist, wilderness rites-of-passage guide, emergence facilitator and sacred clown focused on the work of cultural redemption. Over the past 10 years, he has wielded these tools in service to restorative justice, ancestral healing and peace building in conflict zones from rural Guatemalan villages, to Middle Eastern refugee camps and inner cities in the U.S. He has studied intensively the 8 Shields Cultural Regeneration model, been a scholar at the Orphan Wisdom School, trained with Weaving Earth Relational Education, and been a long-term student, and trainee of the Tamera Love School and Healing Biotope Education. He has three times been awarded Moishe House grants to facilitate Jewish community gatherings on Ancestry, Love, and recollecting the Village. In addition, he has been producing new paradigm films and events through his media collaborative, Re/Culture Media.
Julia Maryanska is a Polish-American filmmaker and producer based in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on creating media and events at the intersection of justice, eros and culture building. She has worked on award winning films such as “My Reincarnation”, and “Regarding Susan Sontag,” and is the Director of the feature doc, “Love School” currently in production. Julia has been selected as one of 10 women internationally to be part of the next CIRCLE Doc Women ACCELERATOR based in Europe. She has directed and edited short films and music videos that have won awards at festivals, been featured on Uplift.TV, Gaia TV and The Shift Network. She is the co-founder of the media collaborative, Re/Culture Media, which produces stories and immersive theatrical events in service to a regenerative culture. She is also multi-lingual, a photographer, violinist, a master NLP practitioner and a mother to a young girl.
FUNDERS
The filmmakers are deeply grateful to all our crowdfunders from two Kickstarter campaigns.
Thank you especially to our large contributors:
Associate Producers
Frank Phoenix
Naomi Jason
Greg Clayton
Ethan Hirsch-Tauber
Joshua Craver
Matt a Myers
Justin Rosenstein
Executive Producers
Namaste Foundation
Raj Lahoti
Producers
Melani Bolyai
Matthias Jackel
ADVISORS
MARC J FRANCIS / SPEAKIT FILMS
Marc J. Francis is a director, cinematographer and producer of independent film whose films have been shown throughout the world in cinemas and on television. He was chosen by Harper’s Bazaar magazine as one of their top “Household names of the future”, and named by the Observer newspaper as one of Britain’s “Rising Stars”. His current directorial work includes the Benedict Cumberbatch narrated film about Zen Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh entitled 'Walk With Me’, and “Here I Am” a feature documentary about living, loving and dying well. Marc's early directorial work includes the Sundance hit 'Black Gold', and the award-winning BBC/ARTE feature documentary 'When China Met Africa’. Marc also produces and amplifies stories of global significance through his production company Speakit Films where he is Creative Director.
GIGI COYLE / SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS / BEYOND BOUNDARIES
Virginia “Gigi” Coyle has served as a community activist wherever she is, a council trainer wherever called, and a life passage guide and trainer with many individuals and organizations. She is learning to be an elder, and serving on such councils for The Ojai Foundation, Youth Passageways, European Council Network, and Weaving Earth… She was recently described “as a field catalyst of moments and long-lasting commitments to heart’s truth of self, circle and life.” She has contributed extensively in the area of citizen diplomacy, women’s empowerment, and the healing ways with money. Founder of the alliance, Beyond Boundaries, (gobeyondboundaries.org) she is devoted to inter-generational pilgrimages and projects of prayer, action and service. She more recently co-founded Walking Water to be part of restoring relations thru water as life and ancestral home. Co-author of The Way of Council, waysofcouncil.net and The Box, Remembering the Gift.
WIN PHELPS / HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER / SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS
Win Phelps has been a truck driver, a private eye, a Chinese Mandarin translator, a single parent of two, an Emmy-nominated TV director and a quest guide and trainer of guides for the School of Lost Borders. He is a carrier of council, a pilgrim Beyond Boundaries, married to the Earth--and to Gigi Coyle--and a long-time devotee of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
