By Alice Kanterian for filmfestivals.com
Alice with Madalina Ghenea and Romanian-German business woman Constanta Manke
What an amazing performance by Chrystabell, a muse of David Lynch. I couldn't stop thinking of Kate Bush and she confirmed after performance beeing a big admirer of Kate Bush.
And coming to an end the most famous French actress Catherine Deneuve, the star of the today festivity was honoured.
We are what we eat Manuel Collas de la Roche says at the beginning!
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10.00am to 11.30am: Better World Fund will partner with global thought-leaders to discuss the relationship between food, health, and sustainability followed by a networking event for attendees.
11.30am to 1pm: “Consciousness, Meditation and Sustainability” with Tony Nader, MD, PhD.
Dr. Nader is a Harvard- and MIT-trained medical doctor, neuroscientist, and internationally recognized expert on consciousness, meditation, and the brain, who will speak on new scientific understandings of consciousness and the critical role of meditation, a modality of consciousness, in developing human creative potential. Dr. Nader will also showcase initiatives of the David Lynch Foundation. Dr. Nader will receive the Better World Fund Prize for Commitment and implementation of Programs toward Creating a Healthy World.
Dr. Nader is the Director of Transcendental Meditation organizations worldwide. His work includes serving as the International Medical Director of the David Lynch Foundation's Heal the Healers Now initiative, a global association of medical doctors and nurses bringing evidence-based, trauma-healing meditation techniques to frontline healthcare workers battling war, violence, and disease.
Dr. Nader will receive the Better World Fund Award For his Commitment and implementation of programs toward Creating a Healthy World
“When we have greater awareness and broader consciousness, we use higher individual and collective intelligence and become capable of solving all the problems that worry us, from climate change to poverty, from economic inequality to border disputes, without becoming mired in the bickering involved in the everyday run of politics and elections or, more importantly, resorting to war,” said Dr. Tony Nader, who is also the bestselling author of “One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness” (Penguin Random House).
Masterclass The Territory: Multiple award-winning Nation Geographic Documentary Film with Koembu Uru-eu-wau-wau
2.30pm to 4 pm: Koembu, a young Indigenous activist from National Geographic’s multiple-award-winning documentary, “The Territory”, will speak and receive the Better World Fund Prize for the Best Achievement in Filmmaking. The film provides an immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers in the Brazilian Amazon. Koembu is coming from Brazil to bring a personal message from the community. During his European visit, Koembu will also speak in Brussels, where the film is being shown to policymakers connected to the upcoming European Parliament debate and vote on a proposed regulation on deforestation-free products.
