The spiritual practice of being held.

Most of us have a movie in our memory banks that changed, forever after, the way we understand the nature of reality, of life in this world. Award-winning filmmaker Ben Rekhi has committed his talents to the conviction that movies are uniquely equipped to educate our emotions and shape our beliefs. Ben has directed and produced films as wide-ranging as Waterborne, The Ashram, Watch List, and The Reunited States, and he has more up his sleeve. In this episode, Rekhi reflects with Anne on the relationship between film and social change—what it has been, what it is today, and what it could yet be.
Anne Snyder is the editor-in-chief of Comment magazine and host of The Whole Person Revolution.
After getting his start in the film industry working for George Clooney and the Coen brothers, filmmaker Ben Rekhi has directed such films as The Reunited States, produced by Van Jones and Meghan McCain; Watch List, which was nominated for eleven Filipino Oscars, and The Ashram starring Academy Award Winner Melissa Leo.
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