Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival presents the premiere of “Political Cool Down” on Thursday, Aug. 8 at 7:00 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
As Earth, Orion’s Belt and the star Sirius align and The Lion’s Gate peaks on August 8th, a portal for activating oneness in group meditation is a golden opportunity for a screening of an innovative new meditation film project in the vortex rich town of Sedona.
Let’s face it, in the long hot fever dream summer of 2024, Americans are neck deep in the most divisive presidential election in US history. The stress of all this is compounded with not two, but three well-funded political campaigns that could not be more different in their objectives or candidates.
Whatever your politics, we’re all as one.
So, leave your politics at the door and enter the new “Political Cool Down series” from 27-year filmmaker Ken Sheetz. Ken is creating an uplifting series of coolest ever meditations which take no political stance. Zero. This, despite Ken’s covering the US elections since 1996 on PBS and his hit YouTube series. Both have received rave reviews from the likes of The New York Times, Reuters and The Los Angeles Times. Alongside his wife — 17 year-veteran and film producing partner, Elizabeth England — their mutual strong political beliefs are happily not relevant for this open-hearted project.
The simple, yet powerful, mission of “Political Cool Down” is not to get people to disengage from politics, but to take refreshing breaks from the political fray with two to three-minute meditations they can enjoy on either their desktops or cell phones. “Political Cool Downs” are each lovingly crafted to give people of any political persuasion — right to left — a collection of two to five-minute refreshing meditation breaks at their desk or on their cell phones.
Thus far the first AI narrated three videos in the “Political Cool Down” series are a mystical visit beneath Antarctica’s Ross ice shelf, a trip to a secret portal to other dimensions inside the great pyramid of Giza and an interstellar trip to Ken’s 2012 meditations in Antarctica where he first envisioned the imaginary ice world of Nektar. A journey within to the level of atoms is in the next of the series in production.
The evening will include a Q&A with Ken Sheetz and Elizabeth England.
“Political Cool Down” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Thursday, Aug. 8 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.