4th Annual Awaken International Spiritual Film Festival

The Center for Spiritual Living Morristown, in Morris Township, will host its fourth annual AWAKEN! INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL FILM FESTIVAL on March 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

The festival will include 22 films from around the world. The films include features, documentaries and shorts, including 22 New Jersey Premieres. The event includes a Saturday morning yoga class, food and refreshments, live music, and Q&A’s with filmmakers.

The opening night feature Finding Joe, is a film about the famous mythologist Joseph Campbell. One of the greatest story tellers of our time, Campbell is best known for the story of The Hero’s Journey. His work continues to be relevant in today’s world and the film provides a narrative for how we can live a fully realized life - or as Campbell would simply state, to “follow your bliss.”

Following is a Q&A with special guests and a reception with live music in Friendship Hall, where the photography exhibit “DanceDance…Cuba” by Penny Wise is on display.
Saturday morning will begin with a yoga class at 10 a.m., followed by a short film, The Yoga Champions, a healthy lunch, and a NJ Premiere from Australia, Yogawoman. A variety of films are presented throughout the afternoon and evening, including Unmistaken Child (a search for the reincarnation of a revered Tibetan monk), an hour of short films from around the world including some animated, and Mystic Wisdom. A Mexican dinner will follow (prepaid only, by February 29).

The feature film for the evening is one not to miss called Waste Land, beginning at 8:00 p.m. Lovers of art,photography, travel, ecology, and the human spirit will enjoy this inspirational film.

All are welcome to come for Sunday Celebration with Rev. Frankie Timmers along with live music at 11:00. Starting at 1:00, films are Tick Tock Emporium (17-mins) and Beads on One String (an hour long film about a tour through India to sevensacred sites). At 3:00 the film Finding Seoul will bring you through the filmmaker’s journey to find his Korean birth family. Filmmakers from all three of these films will be present for discussion and Q&As following their screenings. The final films of the festival include the feature May I Be Frank at 4:30 (about “food, sex, drugs, and transformation”) and Zen: Aqui y Ahora (Zen: Here and Now) at 6:15.

The Awaken! Film Festival takes place at the Center for Spiritual Living Morristown, 331 Mount Kemble Avenue, in Morris Township. For up-to-date scheduling information and film descriptions, go online to

www.AwakenSpiritualFilmFestival.org or call 973-539-3114.