2017 Love International Film Festival (LIFF) Supporting, The Lotus Light Children’s Charity Set For, July 18-22 in Beverly Hills, CA

Beverly, CA – (ANS – 12 July) The 2017 Love International Film Festival (LIFF), which will benefit his Lotus Light Children’s Charity (TLLCC) has been organized to promote a week of love, peace and healing through the art of cinema and will take place July 18th to 22nd. The event will focus on bringing films and filmmakers from across an international community whose work embodies the fundamental message of love and contribution. Screenings of films from over 12 countries and all over the United States will take place at the iconic Laemmle’s Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills, California, July 18th to 20th. Panel discussions to with Film Industry Leaders will take place on July 21st at the Flame in Santa Monica, CA. Award night on July 22nd and private party will be held at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, CA. Over 30 high profile celebrities have confirmed attendance to participate in the awards ceremony.

The Love International Film Festival was co-founded by Ata Servati, a spiritual prize winning poet/writer/actor/director and film maker. All proceeds from the film festival are given to The Lotus Light Children’s Charity (TLLCC) whose mission is “to build a league of empowered, educated, proactive individuals who will have the necessary resources to be able to reach out to impoverished children throughout the world. Through the healing and self-expressive nature of the Arts, we hope to inspire children with an abundance of positivity and provide them an outlet. As an outcome, we expect that children will learn that there are alternate ways to solve problems other than picking up a gun or going to war.” www.thelotuslightchildrencharity.org

“Where words fail, art can succeed. These forms of communication can transcend the political or cultural boundaries that exist.”
Ata Servati – Founder, LIFF & TLLCC

Tickets for the festival and closing ceremony can be purchased at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=35155753806 or
http://loveinternationalfilmfestival.com/

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Ata Servati is a noted poet, playwright, novelist, prize-winning actor, filmmaker and activist.
As a spiritual man, Ata has chosen to follow the path of legends such as Rumi, Omar Khayyam and Hafez. His own spirituality began at the age of four when he began to receive premonitions in his dreams. Ata relates the creative forces in his life as the spiritual reminder and choice based on those early childhood experiences. Read More
Before the National Rebellion in his homeland began to rage on, Ata’s career as a filmmaker and writer was beginning taking off. He began to write, direct, and produce productions throughout the world. Before National Rebellion began, Ata left his homeland to come to the United States.
The decision to follow a spiritual calling was not an easy one for Ata. He ignored it for many years trying sustaining it through his creative and business efforts. These efforts along with his business understanding led to a lavish life style common to many people in the film and Real Estate. Ata had financial success, but not happiness. In early 2006 the Real Estate Market was into its collapse. Ata, who up until that time had been successful, experienced a personal and financial disaster. His business failed and his marriage ended. He went from living in a lavish house to becoming homeless. He began to live out of his car. To someone else born to wealth and fame this drastic change of fate would have been the lowest point of their lives. To Ata it was and the beginning of the best moment in his entire life. In that moment he remembered the hopes and dreams of his childhood. It was this experience that led to him to make a choice, and commit to the spiritual path. Ata began to write again, and to focus on the spiritual forces that surround all of us. After many wasted years Ata has found his peace and true path that he was meant to live on. He has rededicated his life to bringing spirituality and healing in the world. The Lotus Light Children Charity is an expression of this love, hope and desire to help and enlighten children; by bring healing to them through art. The Love International Film Festival, founded by Ata provides and opportunity to support this charity and positive art in cinema around the world.
Along with founding The Lotus Light Children Charity, Ata has once again entered into filmmaking with his production company Enlightenment Entertainment. With five projects in development as follow, “BABA” “In Search Of Heaven”, “CellFish” “CellFish 2- The Final Game.” “Dream On Empty.” He has also recently published his novel “In Search of Heaven” and a book of spiritual poetry from the heart, “I Am A Lotus”. His new novels “Baba”, “In Search Of Love” and a three-part compilation “The Shrine”, “Married To The Well”, The Silent Beggar” are schedule for release in 2016 and 2017. Ata Servati is grateful to be able to share his love and creativity with the world.
By, Anthony Petch

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Here is a link to the Ben and Jerry story. http://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/climate-march-recap

The People’s Climate March –
This is just the beginning
September 25, 2014
On September 21st, 400,000 people took to the streets of New York City to demand action, not rhetoric, from the world leaders who would take part in the UN Climate Summit two days later. The NYC march was joined by 2808 supporting events in 166 countries, making the People’s Climate March the biggest climate change mobilization in history.
Even for Manhattan, a borough known for bombastic size, the scale was staggering, with the march assembly alone taking up 21 city blocks on the west side of Central Park. The significance of the day brought out celebrities including Leonardo Decaprio, climate luminaries including Al Gore, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, and NYC mayor Bill Deblasio (who just passed major green legislation, committing his city to an 80 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2050).

But the real heroes were the everyday people from all walks of life and all parts of the world. The breadth of backgrounds, ethnicities, ages and viewpoints represented a sea change in the size and diversity of the climate movement.
“This issue has become so urgent for people that hundreds of thousands turned out in the streets,” says Chris Miller, Ben & Jerry’s Social Mission Activism Manager. “There was a sea of people as far as the eye could see in either direction.”
“We are seeing a broad range of unusual suspects— trade unionists, religious leaders, indigenous peoples,” adds Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace’s International Executive Director. “Why we are reaching larger numbers is that we are saying climate change is not solely an environmental issue— it’s a survival issue.”
Flying banners of all colors, shapes and messages, the march was a spectacle that even New Yorkers couldn’t ignore. Fresh signs like “It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your coals,” and “the revolution will not be motorized,” combined outrage and humor, while Ben & Jerry’s own “If It’s Melted, It’s Ruined,” float designed by Russ Bennett, drew constant comments. At least 20 busloads of Vermonters were on location, from the Tar Sands-panning performance of Bread and Puppet, to anti-nuclear contingents, student and municipal groups and individuals on the move.

Under a muggy but rain-free sky, the marchers poured through Manhattan’s cavernous avenues and streets, their cheers and drumrolls a stark contrast to the glitz of the upper west side and the big screen excess of Times Square. Just before 1 pm, a pre-planned wave of silence swept from the front of the march over 20 blocks north, as everyone paused with their hands raised high overhead in remembrance of lives and homes lost to climate change related catastrophe. The poignancy of such a concentrated quiet in an otherwise noisy city sobered even the NYPD on crowd control duty. A few minutes later, a whistle swept up the march, leading a rolling cry as 400,000 plus people participated in the climate action alarm.
At the 11th Avenue and 34th Street finish line, the tired dispersed while many lingered on, dancing, talking and eating at a multi-block street fair. A week prior, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that this past summer set the record for the hottest in global history, with 2014 likely to break the record as the hottest year ever.
“Businesses have an incredible amount of influence with policy makers,” says Miller, “they need to join citizens in taking a stand on climate change. If we all come together and take action, it’s an incredibly positive vision for the future that I see for us.”

The People’s Climate March was an unparalleled success, drawing in over four times the number of people as expected, according to event organizers 350.org, all with the goal of demanding definitive change from our governments. With the next United Nations Climate Change Conference scheduled to take place next December in Paris, it’s never been more critical to keep the momentum going by clicking over to organizers like 350.org and getting involved.
“This is just the beginning,” says Miller. “The next 14 months are incredibly important— we need to go from 400,000 in New York City, to a million people in Paris next year. We need to really put pressure on world leaders to act with ambition on climate change.”

We wanted to create a Human Peace Sign at the end, but ran out of steam, from our own events in San Jose and Central Park.

I didn’t realize that Ben and Jerry’s group was directly in front of us. They are socially responsible

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