A Better World - 08/15/11

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Monday's show begins with film-maker/director William Arntz, whose first major film was What The Bleep Do We Know? nd E. Raymond Brown,a visionary African-American author, director, actor, producer, musician, lecturer, and workshop facilitator. He has studied somatic, archetypal and aboriginal psychology, Taoism, shamanism, metaphysics, quantum theory, transformation facilitation, geo-politics and pan-Africanism. Ghetto Physics is his first cinematic work.

William Arntz' background prior to film-making was as a research laser physicist who developed a highly successful software program. Having entered a spiritual path, his life began to take a series of wonderful and wild turns. What The Bleep went on to become a global phenomenon with well over 100 million viewers worldwide. Ghetto Physics, partnered with E. Raymond Brown, is his next major film.

The second half of today's show is with Italian-born writer, director & playwright Franco Moschetti who recently staged his latest theater piece off-off Broadway, When Yellow Were the Stars on Earth, a WWII drama in which two heroic women, a female Jewish Resistance fighter and a German cabaret singer, transcend their positions as enemies by sacrificing their lives for one another. The play debuted in Manhattan Repertory Theater’s 2011 summer theater festival to a run of sold out performances and is currently being considered for a larger stage.

Franco is a veteran at organizing theatrical events in Europe and the U.S. In Ghent, Belgium, and New York City, from 2001 to 2005, Franco organized live performances featuring a long list of entertainers from various artistic backgrounds. In 2005, he organized more than 200 people in an elaborately choreographed, theatrical re-creation of the Money scene from the movie Cabaret. The number, which was created, directed and designed by Armando Acosta, was marched down New York City’s Fifth Avenue to powerful applause and got front-page coverage in the Daily News.

Franco is currently developing the screenplay of When Yellow Were the Stars on Earth and has also co-written a script for a feature-length film We Were One to Begin, which he will co-direct and start shooting this coming fall. He is currently busy co-writing a book of short stories about Jewish Americans in modern-day New York.