Shift Your World Film Festival 2022
VIP Program & Replays
Festival Presentations
You can enjoy two broadcasts of the festival each day.
Day 1, Day 2 & Day 3
- Broadcast A: 09/21/2024 6:00:00 PM - 09/22/2024 4:00:00 AM
- Broadcast B: 09/22/2024 6:00:00 AM - 09/21/2024 4:00:00 PM
Day 4: Psychedelic Sunday (exclusively for paid VIPs)
- Broadcast A: 09/21/2024 4:00:00 PM - 09/22/2024 4:00:00 AM
- Broadcast B: 09/22/2024 4:00:00 AM - 09/21/2024 4:00:00 PM
Below you’ll see when our festival presentations are available where you live.
Program and schedule are subject to change.
Day 1
Shift Your World's mindfully curated films and poignant post-screening discussions offer a portal to new possibilities in the realms of personal, societal, and planetary wellbeing.
A Free Online Film Festival from The Shift Network
https://shiftyourworldfilmfestival.com/festival
Day 2
Shift Your World's mindfully curated films and poignant post-screening discussions offer a portal to new possibilities in the realms of personal, societal, and planetary wellbeing.
A Free Online Film Festival from The Shift Network
https://shiftyourworldfilmfestival.com/festival
Day 3
Shift Your World's mindfully curated films and poignant post-screening discussions offer a portal to new possibilities in the realms of personal, societal, and planetary wellbeing.
A Free Online Film Festival from The Shift Network
https://shiftyourworldfilmfestival.com/festival
VIP - Psychedelic Sunday
Psychedelic Sunday
VIP Bonus Content
VIP Bonus Content
Have you upgraded to a VIP Shift Your World Film Festival pass yet?
Shift Your World Film Festival VIP Pass holders receive extended post-event film viewing, immersive experiences during the 4-day film festival, and exclusive bonus content and perks! Upgrade to Shift Your World Film Festival pass here.
VIP Pass perks include:
- Access Pass to Psychedelic Sunday — a full day of leading-edge films and panel discussions about the intriguing world of psychedelics — exclusively for VIPs
- 2 weeks of on-demand access for select Festival films*
- LIVE online “Meet & Greet” with filmmakers
- On-demand access to bonus content including feature-length and short films, plus exclusive filmmaker interviews
- Membership in the Shift Your World Insiders Club — you’ll be the first to know about upcoming screenings and special events
- Future discounts, upgrades, exclusive perks, and more!
*Please note: Because of contractual, distribution, and licensing agreements, some films and programming may be omitted from the extended access window of February 21 — March 6, 2022, limited by geo-location or by audience viewing capacity.
Film Festival Awards
Cast your vote online for Audience Choice Feature Film (1st and 2nd place) during the festival. Voting opens Thursday, February 17 and closes Saturday, February 19. The winners will be announced within two days.
Use this handy ballot to take notes throughout the Film Festival so you can vote for your favorites to win Audience Choice!
Download Ballot
Panel: Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled Times
How can we keep our joy alive during the ups and downs of life? What does a society committed to the happiness of its citizens look like? One of the film’s directors is joined by the author of The Book of Joy, upon which the film is based, to engage in a lively discussion with a sociologist and a scientist about choosing joy as a way of life, as exemplified by His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the film.
Doug Abrams
Doug Abrams is an author, editor, literary agent, and truth hunter who is committed to helping catalyze the next evolutionary stage of our global culture. In addition to co-writing The Book of Joy with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, he also worked with Stephen Hawking on his last book, the global bestseller Brief Answers to the Big Questions. He has had the privilege of working with other Nobel Laureates including Nelson Mandela, Jody Williams, and Elizabeth Blackburn. He has worked with many visionary scientists. He is also devoted to spreading the importance of conservation and fighting climate change. He is currently working with Christiana Figueres, the former UN Secretary on Climate, who led the Paris Climate Agreement, on The Future We Choose: Ending the Climate Crisis, and with plant ecologist Suzanne Simard on Finding the Mother Tree, about her work discovering the communication and network intelligence of trees and forests, and how cooperation is as important to survival as competition. Doug has also worked with Desmond Tutu as his coauthor, editor, and literary agent for almost two decades.
Doug is the Founder and President of Idea Architects, a creative book and media company helping visionaries to create a wiser, healthier, and more just world.
Dialogue is key to Doug’s work, and he believes that genius is a collaborative process. His goal is to bring people together in a cultural conversation through books and media that transform lives and ultimately the world.
Books and films he has developed have been credited with convincing then-President Bill Clinton to stop the genocide in Kosovo (THE BRIDGE BETRAYED), for launching the modern anti-slavery movement (DISPOSSIBLE PEOPLE), and for helping to expand a mass incarceration reform movement (JUST MERCY, a book and film starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Fox).
Throughout all of his wide-ranging projects, Doug aspires to help build a prism through which life-changing conversations and experiences can be created and nourished. He has had the privilege of interviewing global heroes and icons including Jimmy Carter, Bono, Carlos Santana, Richard Branson, and many others.
He was also on the founding team of JustGive.org, a philanthropy website that has pioneered new forms of giving and been responsible for giving over half a billion dollars to charity.
He has written two novels, The Lost Diary of Don Juan and Eye of the Whale, which together have been translated into over thirty languages.
He lives with his wife, Rachel, an integrative family physician, author, and lifelong conversation partner. He has three grown children, Jesse, Kayla, and Eliana.
Elissa Epel, PhD
Elissa Epel, PhD, is a leading researcher in stress, well being, and healthy aging. She is a professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Psychiatry, at University of California, San Francisco. She is the Director of the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center, member of the National Academy of Medicine, the Mind and Life Institute Steering Council and past President of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. She studies psychological, social, and behavioral processes related to chronic stress that accelerate biological aging, and well being practices that can slow aging.
She leads national NIA networks on Stress, and Emotional Well Being. She has won many awards for her research and her work was featured venues such as TEDMED, The Today Show, CBS’s Morning Show, 60 Minutes, National Public Radio, New York Times, and WSJ. She enjoys leading meditation retreats at venues such as WEF/Davos, Esalen, Blue Spirit Costa Rica, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and 1440 Multiversity. Epel co-wrote The Telomere Effect: The new science of living younger longer with Liz Blackburn, which is a New York Times best seller in 30 languages that integrates the science of cell aging with practical daily tips.
Julia Kim
Dr. Julia Kim is a leading expert in global health and wellbeing and the Program Director of the Gross National Happiness Centre Bhutan. Through local and international partnerships, the GNH Centre curates experiential leadership and learning programs that promote a more flourishing, equitable, and sustainable world – based on New Economics principles, alternative progress measures, sustainable development, and the growing science of wellbeing. Prior to living in Bhutan, Julia worked as a physician and HIV researcher in Africa and Asia, before serving with UNDP and UNICEF in New York. She brings a background in leadership development, research, and policy in the fields of wellbeing economics, international health and development, and is a member of the Club of Rome, and an associate of the Presencing Institute – a global network integrating awareness-based practices as a core capacity of 21st-century innovation and leadership. Julia holds degrees from Cornell University, the University of Manitoba, Tufts University, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Michael B. Beckwith
Michael B. Beckwith is the founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, a trans-denominational spiritual community with a congregation of over 9,000 members. He has appeared on Dr. Oz, The Oprah Show, Larry King Live, and in his own PBS Special, The Answer Is You, spreading his message to millions of people. He also participated alongside the Dalai Lama and other New Thought ministers in the Synthesis Dialogues.
Beckwith is the creator of the Life Visioning Process, which he teaches all over the globe through his seminars and books. At its core, the process is a way to fully embrace your connection to the Divine and let the universe serve the world through you.
Peggy Callahan
Peggy Callahan’s sense of fairness (or maybe masochism) has driven her work in television and human rights activism. She was honored to capture the life-changing conversations between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his ‘mischievous brother’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The week-long meeting took place in Dharmsala at the Dalai Lama’s compound. It was shot with five cameras, a crew from three countries and back-up equipment twelve hours away in Delhi. It came off without a single glitch. Yep, holy men were on the set.
The dialogues inspired the film Mission: JOY - Finding Happiness in Troubled Times. Peggy served as the co-director and producer. The message that ‘joy is an inside job’ is spreading even faster with the largest ever global Citizen Science project on joy. BIG JOY takes 7 minutes a day for 7 days and is available on-line for free around the globe. It helps each participant feel better as it expands the science of joy.
As an award-winning filmmaker, television jo, and human rights activist, Peggy believes in the power of story to create real change on the planet. Peggy also co-founded Voices4Freedom and Free the Slaves, two international non-profits dedicated to ending modern day slavery in our lifetime. Finally. Forever.
Hosted by Jonathan Granoff
Jonathan Granoff is an attorney, author and international advocate emphasizing the legal, ethical and spiritual dimensions of human development and security, with a specific focus on advancing the rule of law to address the threats posed by nuclear weapons. He is president of the Global Security Institute, Senior Advisor to the ABA’s Committee on Arms Control and National Security and Co Chair of the ABA Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nuclear Non-proliferation. He is Senior Advisor to the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit and has served as Vice President and UN Representative of the Lawyer’s Alliance for World Security. He serves on numerous governing and advisory boards including: the ABA International Law Section, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Fortune Forum, Jane Goodall Institute, the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security and Middle Powers Initiative.
Mr. Granoff is the award-winning screenwriter of The Constitution: The Document that Created a Nation, and has articles in more than 50 publications and books including: The Sovereignty Revolution, Toward a Nuclear Weapons Free World, Imagining Tomorrow, Analyzing Moral Issues, Perspectives on 911, Toward a World In Balance, Reverence for Life Revisited, and Hold Hope, Wage Peace. He has been a featured guest and expert commentator on hundreds of radio and television pro-grams, testified in Congress and at the UN numerous times and has, since 2003, addressed the annual Nobel Peace Laureate Summit in Paris and Rome.
