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Night Lotus Productions and its founder, Sharon Janis, focus on video, television, film, documentary, music, and literary projects that have a positive impact on the world. On this page, you'll be able to watch video clips in streaming realplayer of Night Lotus Productions and some of Sharon's earlier work.

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The Faces of CalWORKs

Produced, directed, script, music composition, and editing by Night Lotus Productions

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An inspiring 21-minute documentary about a government program that offers resources and one-on-one care to lift people up -- often out of dire circumstances -- and help them to create a successful life for themselves and their children. Sponsored by the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency in collaboration with the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.

Peace Pilgrim: An American Sage Who Walked Her Talk

Scripted and edited by Night Lotus Productions

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What an extraordinary woman! At age 44, Mildred Norman left her life circumstances and became Peace Pilgrim -- walking coast to coast for peace for nearly 30 years, living on faith and sharing her wisdom and exhuberance generously with people across the land. This 60-minute documentary is a poetic and musical exploration of her life and message, and includes interviews with Dalai Lama, Maya Angelou, John Robbins, Elizabeth Kubler Ross, and many of Peace Pilgrim's friends, admirers, and relatives, along with newsreel footage from the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's, when Peace was walking for peace.

What One Man Can Do: For The Hunger Project

Scripted and edited by Night Lotus Productions

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This video honor's Raul Julia's work with The Hunger Project, and powerfully shows why he was so emphatic, enthusiastic, and dedicated to the vision of ending hunger on this planet.

Go Go Power Rangers! The Music Video

Co-directed and edited by Sharon Janis

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Now you can't tell me that the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers was not an inspired show! It was the number one children's program around the globe for several years in the 1990's. Sharon Janis was an editor for the show, and also created this music video for Top of the Pop's.

Love Believes All: Happy New Year from California

Co-produced and edited by Sharon Janis

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This video was created by the California devotees of Siddha Yoga as an offering for one of their New Years worldwide satellite celebrations -- filmed up and down the coast, including a yacht, flags from around the world, a helicoptor, Disneyland parade, cable cars, and hot air balloons, along with children singing a beautiful song based on 1 Corinthians: "Love is patient, love is kind, slow to anger, knows not mine. . ."

X-Men Animated Television Show

Associate-produced and edited by Sharon Janis

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This is a clip from the X-Men television show, which includes a cameo by Sharon Janis with the line, "Oh come on, a demon? You must be kidding!" Turns out it was just Nightcrawler, but that's another story. You can tell which character is Sharon by her nametag, which says "Kumuda."

News Features from Prime Nine News, Los Angeles

Produced and edited by Sharon Janis

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This is a montage of video clips that were produced and edited in the early 1990's for Disney's KCAL-TV in Los Angeles. This was Sharon's first full-time job after spending 10 years living a monastic life, and these pieces show how even so-called tragic events can have great depth of meaning and beauty. God's creation in action right here on earth.

During her 2 and 1/2 years with KCAL, Sharon was nominated for seven Emmy awards as a producer and editor, won an Emmy as editor, and also received other awards including the New York International Television Festival Silver Medal for "Best Television Program," the National Associated Press Board of Directors Award for "Best Television Enterprise," the Los Angeles Press Club Award for "First Place Editing," the Associated Press California/Nevada Award as "First Place Editor of News Features," and a Golden Mike Award for "First Place Light Feature."

You can read the chapter about transitioning from the monastic life to Hollywood in Chapter 31 of Sharon's autobiography, Never to Return: A Modern Quest For Eternal Truth HERE

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A New Music CD from Night Lotus Productions:

100% of the profits from this CD will be donated to the Muktabodha Indological Research Institute,
which is working to preserve the wisdom of ancient sages for future generations.
For more information and to hear the songs in streaming realplayer, click HERE.

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