"Origenes" featuring work by Guadalupe Urbina
"Quest For Justice"
Miracles of Each Moment
Exposing Ansel Adams
Sacred Geomety
Children of War - trailer
ORIGENES
Music & Art by Guadalupe Urbina; Costa Rica 2008.
QUEST FOR JUSTICE
Using the artwork of the Korean comfort women, this film tells the story of one women, Kim Duk Soon, taken as teenage from Korea to China and then Nanjing by the Japanese Government to serve in “military comfort stations” where they were sexual slaves for the Japanese soldiers. (2002)
EXPOSING ANSEL ADAMS
This film was produced by the Ansel Adams Gallery and was shown at the Centennial Celebration and was shown at a gathering sponsored by Jeanne and Michael Adams in Yosemite in 2002.
A PEACEFUL WARRIOR
This film about a teacher in the Caucasus region of Dagestan is teaching children martial arts, arts, meditiation and peace. A brilliant strategy in a land where every man carries a weapon and machismo prevails. Screen in Russia and Dagestan. Format is being updated. (Filmed in Dagestan, Russia 1994 -1996)
MIRACLES OF EACH MOMENT
This film features the art of Kaz Tanahashi's eno's while he describes the phenomena of imperfection and impermanence. 2003
KARL LINN'S CHILDHOOD FROM GERMANY TO PALESTINE
Karl was born in Germany in 1923 and immigrated to Palestine in 1934, leaving there just as World War II was ending. His life reflected a pattern or optimism always seeking community, peace and justice. 2005
KARL LINN MEMORIAL -( link under repair -(will be up soon)
Karl died at home in Berkeley in 2005, just as we finished our work together. This short film was made for his memorial service in Berkeley which was attended by many people - community members as well as former cohorts and students from his days as a professor to architects and landscape architects and the University of Pennsylvania.
VIMEO RSS FEED OF SEVERAL SHORTS
THE SOUL OF OAXACA (2004)
ANSEL ADAMS ILLUMINES (2008)
For an exhibition of Ansel’s work in the state of Washington 2007
SACRED GEOMETRY (2005)
WE MUST NOT FORGET THE CHILDREN
A fundraising and promotional film for Balkans YouthLink filmed in Kosova immediately after US bombing during break-up of former Yugoslavia. It is about youth leaders who were actively working with non violent means to restabilize their region. (1999)
CHILDREN OF WAR
The trailer for a feature length film uses artwork, poetry and stories of children as the narrative to telll the story of homeless children refugees in Roma (gypsy) camps in Italy during the war in Kosava in 1998. Produced by Two Shoes Production, Iris co-produced, did production sound, and provided post production facilities.
LODRAK KARCHU MONASTERY, BHUTAN
A short film about the Ngingma Monastery in Bumtang, Bhutan, where Namkhai Nyingpo is Rinpoche. The vido was donated to his organization for fundraising in Australian in 2000.
EARTH TREASURE JARS
Cynthia Jurs, an American Buddhist and her Tibetan teacher in Asia are sending jars filled with prayers for world pease to be buried in sacred places around the world. Each jar is buried in community ceremonies in far away location to create a solidarity across distances. The film is used to both promote peace and inform others of the work. 1998
Production Note: Verona Fonté filmed, composed and edited "Origenes", "Quest For Justice", Karl Linn's films, "Miracles of Each Moment", "The Soul of Oaxaca", "We Must Not Forget The Children", "Lodrak Karch Monestary", "Earth Treasure Jars". She edited and interviewed subjects for "Exposing Ansel Adams". She reconfigured footage used in another film about Ansel Adams and edited "Ansel Adams Illumines". She was sound person in Italy for the trailer "Children of War" and provided Iris Arts editing studio for this film.