Scored Scenes
Tudor Maier
Music Composer for Films and Documentaries
My Ascension - for Suicide Prevention
On June 7, 2017 Emma Benoit decided her life wasn’t worth living anymore. It was the summer before her senior year of high school and on the outside her life looked perfect. She was a stunning varsity cheerleader with a supportive family and lots of friends, but on the inside she was filled with darkness, depression and anxiety, and had never told a soul about it. A series of miracles saved her life, but a self-inflicted gunshot wound resulted in a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed. Although extremely tragic, the incident propelled her on a mission to use her painful experience and ongoing recovery to help others find hope, while shining more light on the suicide epidemic that is taking the lives of 20 young people a day in the United States. In addition to Emma's inspiring story of recovery, the film also shares the stories of two remarkable young people who didn't survive their attempts; and we learn first hand from their families, friends, school officials and suicide prevention experts about the devastating impact suicides have on those who are left behind.
Director/Producer: GREG DICHARRY, Editor/Producer: SIMEON HUTNER
The Life of Yogi Amrit Desai
Amrit Desai is an Indian-American spiritual teacher and yoga instructor. He was born on August 16, 1932, in Gujarat, India. Amrit Desai is known for his role in popularizing yoga in the Western world, particularly in the United States.
In the 1960s and 1970s, he founded the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Massachusetts, which became one of the largest and most well-known yoga retreat centers in the United States. Kripalu Yoga, a style of yoga that emphasizes self-discovery, meditation, and mindfulness, is named after the center.
Producer: Malay Desai
This Café is Preserving and Celebrating Native Culture
Vincent Medina is committed to keeping native culture alive in his community. Through the café that he co-founded, he shares the language, meals, and practices of his tribe, the Muwekma Ohlone people.
“By keeping the story as a hopeful one, we ask people to reframe how they think about our culture, to associate our culture more with victory and not with defeat.”
Producer: Abhi Singh
A husband-wife team in Southern Indiana are on a mission: to heal the planet through compost, with the help of ex-offenders.
Political Economist Ryan Conway and his wife Andrea Avena Koenigsberger, were on a track to academic stardom at Indiana University — until they moved to a small farm in Bloomington, IN and started a community composting business. When the business takes off, the Earthkeepers seek help - and end up partnering with Made up Mind (M.U.M.), a non-profit that helps ex-offenders find jobs and stay out of jail.
Producer: Mitch Teplitsky
My Ascension
for Suicide Prevention - Film Trailer
On June 7, 2017 Emma Benoit decided her life wasn’t worth living anymore. It was the summer before her senior year of high school and on the outside her life looked perfect. She was a stunning varsity cheerleader with a supportive family and lots of friends, but on the inside she was filled with darkness, depression and anxiety, and had never told a soul about it. A series of miracles saved her life, but a self-inflicted gunshot wound resulted in a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed. Although extremely tragic, the incident propelled her on a mission to use her painful experience and ongoing recovery to help others find hope, while shining more light on the suicide epidemic that is taking the lives of 20 young people a day in the United States. In addition to Emma's inspiring story of recovery, the film also shares the stories of two remarkable young people who didn't survive their attempts; and we learn first hand from their families, friends, school officials and suicide prevention experts about the devastating impact suicides have on those who are left behind.
Director/Producer: GREG DICHARRY, Editor/Producer: SIMEON HUTNER
Mongolian Herders Negotiate Their Future with a Massive Mine
Traditional livestock herding has been the main economic activity in Mongolia’s South Gobi for countless generations. Always a precarious livelihood in this harsh desert landscape, herding became even harder when the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine began building its vast network of infrastructure on one of the world’s largest copper deposits. Suddenly in competition for pasture and water resources, in a rapidly changing economic and physical landscape, herders quickly began to feel the impacts on their traditional livelihoods.
Film credit: Abhi Singh, Produced by: Accountability Counsel
Just Like Me
Vietnam War — Stories From All Sides
is a journey from present to past and back again that follows filmmaker and Vietnam veteran Ron Osgood in his quest to recover fragmented and buried stories of the Vietnam War. Through his own story, and the stories of other Hoosier veterans, Just Like Me: The Vietnam War — Stories From All Sides reveals multiple perspectives that are thematically interconnected. These perspectives include North and South Vietnamese, refugee/immigrant, and veteran, artist, musician and writer.
2018 Regional Emmy Winner
Produced by: Ron Osgood
Video produced by Undercurrent Production for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to highlight the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) made famous on Discovery’s SharkWeek known as SharkCam at Boston Ocean Day 2018.
