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On this page you can watch inspiring videos produced, directed, edited, and/or scripted by Sharon Janis
Night Lotus Productions is focused on creating video, television, film, and documentary projects that have a positive impact on the world.
Its founder, Sharon Janis, has won local, national, and international awards including:
- Emmy Award (Los Angeles)
- New York International Television Festival Silver Medal for "Best Television Program"
- National Associated Press Board of Directors Award for "Best Television Enterprise"
- Los Angeles Press Club Award for "First Place Editing"
- Associated Press California/Nevada Award as "First Place Editor of News Features"
- Golden Mike Award for "First Place Light Feature"
And others…
Night Lotus Productions is located in beautiful Cardiff by the Sea, north of San Diego.
NOTE: You can find many of these videos and others of Sharon speaking and singing
on Google Video and YouTube
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Peace Pilgrim:
An American Sage Who Walked Her Talk
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This is a powerful documentary about 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, which is as relevant today as ever. Also included are 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 on her walk for peace.
In harmony with Peace Pilgrim's non-covetous ways, the Friends of Peace Pilgrim Foundation's all-volunteer crew has been publishing and offering an abundance
of materials by and about Peace Pilgrim for decades, including her classic "In Her Own Words" (which you can also read online HERE) and
this video documentary -- all materials are offered without charge, although
of course it is donations that help keep this offering possible. This video is narrated by Reverend Michael Beckwith.
You can find more information or order a copy of this video from:
www.peacepilgrim.org, (530)
620-0333
Friends of Peace Pilgrim
7350 Dorado Canyon Road, Somerset, CA 95684
The Faces of CalWORKs
Produced, directed, scripted, music composition and singing,
and editing by Sharon Janis and 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. This video has been playing in welfare offices, homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, and regularly on the San Diego County Television station. Watch the whole video in this clip.
What One Man Can Do:
For The Hunger Project
Produced, scripted and edited by Night Lotus Productions
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This video honors 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.
Purna Das: The King of Bauls
Camera, scripting, editing, and voiceover by Sharon Janis
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The Bauls of Bengal are a tradition of religious minstrels whose songs of joy, love, and longing for mystical union with the Divine evoke a profound spirituality. Purna Das and his son Dibyendu Das, representing the 8th and 9th generations of a traditional and well-known Baul lineage, are featured in this 23-minute long video, offering their ecstatic and colorful music, and explaining the sublime nature of Baul.
Love Believes All:
Happy New Year from California
Co-produced and edited by Sharon Janis
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This video was co-produced with Suze Orman as an offering by the California devotees of Siddha Yoga for one of SYDA Foundation's New Years worldwide satellite celebrations --
it was filmed up and down the coast, with 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. . ."
Sharon first learned her editing, producing, and scriptwriting skills while serving for a decade in Siddha Yoga's monastic ashram (SYDA Foundation) in upstate New York.
Go Go Power Rangers! The Music Video
Co-directed and edited by Sharon Janis
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Now you can't say 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.
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, with spiritual focus, even so-called tragic events can have great depth of meaning and beauty -- God's creation in action right here on earth.
More videos to view from this time:
Fire in the City (emmy nominated piece about the L.A. riots)
(watch Fire in the City at Google Video)
Let's be Thankful (emmy nominated piece for Thanksgiving)
Line in the Sand (emmy nominated piece about 1st Gulf war)
(watch Line in the Sand at Google Video)
Troops Come Home (Bette Midler Wind Beneath My Wings)
(watch Troops Come Home at Google Video)
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 an animated Sharon Janis with her well-rehearsed lines, "Oh come on, a demon? You must be kidding!" Turns out it was not a demon but just Nightcrawler taking refuge in a monastery, but that's another story.
Beretta's Island
Sharon Janis was the Coproducer and Film Editor of the Feature Film "Beretta's Island" with Franco Columbu and his best friend Arnold Schwarzenegger
Other Television Shows, Film, and Video Pieces produced and/or edited by Sharon Janis include:
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CLICK HERE to watch many Videos by and about Sharon on Google Video
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