The Human Experience - a full length documentary from Grassroots Films has won 27 awards including the Grand Jury Award at the Mexico International Film Festival and Best Humanitarian Film at the Sedona International Film Festival. It is a brave, thoughtful, complex, big-hearted, extraordinary piece of work.
Starting out at the St Francis House in Brooklyn NY, a home for young men run by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, the movie follows two young men, who set out on a crash course odyssey in search of the answers to the burning questions: Who am I? Who is Man? Why do we search for meaning?
Their journey begins as they live in sub-zero temperatures with some homeless people on the streets of New York; they move on to a project working with orphans and disabled children in Peru, and then spend some time in a leper colony in Ghana. Stunning visual images, flashbacks to footage of famine and war zones are accompanied by a soaring musical score as the young men move from one encounter to the next. The filmmakers interject black and white shots of modern day philosophers offering their ideas on the meaning of life, including Fr. John Neuhaus, a Lutheran who became a Catholic priest.
"Faith, hope, love and family are the most important things" the young men conclude. The St. Francis House in Brooklyn, where they live, is rooted in strong community outreach - as well as giving young men who often come there from very difficult backgrounds, a 'second chance' in life.
The film has been screened at numerous Christian churches and communities in the US and Europe.
Info: www.grassrootsfilms.com/thehumanexperience/
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