About Our Inspirational Movies and Family Friendly Films
Traditionally, inspirational movies make it to your local theater by way of studios that see enough financial potential to make money on them. Smaller filmmakers-or just filmmakers with non-mainstream films-usually don't get their movies shown in a theater outside of a film festival. Spiritual Cinema Circle travels to film festivals all over the world and encourage submissions from undiscovered filmmakers to seek out the stories that deserve an audience.
Hand-selected inspirational movies
Out of the hundreds of spiritual movies, family films and stories of inspiration we review throughout the year, our acquisitions team handpicks the most enriching, uplifting and inspirational movies to pass along to you. Each one is a movie with a story that matters. Stories that remind us about what it means to be human. That explore new possibilities. That help us understand more of the world around us.
Our selections include a wide range of topics - from the power of the mind in What the Bleep Do We Know!? to living compassionately in The Tea Cup to the empowering message of creating your own destiny in The Secret or Illusion.
Movies the whole family can enjoy
Spiritual Cinema Circle offers the opportunity for movie makers to take a chance on subjects and story lines that have the power to become something much more than a movie. As a member, you help give these conscious filmmakers a voice. All movies are family friendly and are difficult, if not impossible to see anywhere else. Even films that receive audience acclaim at small film festivals rarely ever get seen again. Together we're helping change that.
Volume 8, 2010 (Currently Shipping)
Sweetener
This short film is set in a Chinese restaurant with silent, bored patrons and a sullen cook. The mood shifts when two new customers arrive and play a game of chess, improvising with sugar packets and condiments. Curiosity transforms into connection as the other diners get wrapped up in the game.
6 min. in English. Written and directed by Paul Preston.
Jeanine
Meet Jeanine, a 10-year-old who longs for ordinariness and order, but instead lives in a carefree, creative home with bohemian parents. “The problem is that I am a product of a laid-back education based on stuff like peace and love, flower power and all that stuff… What a load of rubbish,” laments the mortified French girl. Where does Jeanine fit in?
18 min. in French with English subtitles. Written by Louise Thermes. Directed by Sophie Reine.
Jack Canfield: Live a Life of Purpose
Did you ever wonder what makes a luminary shine — lighting the path for the rest of us? Get a rare, intimate glimpse into the life of Jack Canfield, the originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul ® series. In this first interview in Gaiam’s exclusive biography series, Canfield shares his personal stories of transformation, and his practical wisdom on how to live your life’s “soul” purpose.
75 min. in English. Directed by Michael Badertscher. Produced by Richard Hassen.
Broken Hill (Worldwide)
Tommy McAlpine (Luke Arnold) lives on a rocky, drought-ridden sheep station in the Australian Outback with his tough, taciturn father George (Timothy Hutton), a farmer and high school football coach. Tommy dreams of becoming a classical composer, but his father believes his son’s future is in the family farm. Will George ever hear the same music that Tommy does?
102 min. in English. Written and directed by Dagen Merrill.
