Films
Beautiful Faces
Author: Russell Martin
In an extraordinary Mexico City hospital, disfigured children are offered new lives
“A great documentary . . . Seeing this film is one of the most significant human and spiritual experiences I’ve had in recent years. What pride it gave me in being a doctor, what pride to find work like this in Mexico . . . what pride I found in the hope of these families, and in these children who remind us of the grandeur of the human being,”
– Dr. Fernando Lorenzo Rego, executive director of the UNESCO Chair in Bioetheics and Human Rights
Two Spirits
Author: Russell Martin
Fred Martinez was a Navajo boy who was also a girl
“Riveting . . . A crash course on Navajo history and culture that illuminates the struggles of [Fred] Martinez, whose detailed murder and mother’s grief are devastating.”
– LA Weekly
“A gorgeous, moving, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting story, the kind of film that opens the mind and heart so wide they can never close as tightly again.”
– Martha Beck, Oprah magazine columnist and bestselling author
Touch
Author: Russell Martin
The Healing Legacy of Dr. John E. Upledger
From the producer and director of the multi-award-winning documentaries Two Spirits and Beautiful Faces comes a fascinating look at one of the most visionary physicians of the last hundred years—a ground-breaking healer who risked ridicule in order to explore a virtually unknown physiological system and its vital role in human health and healing. From Dr. John Upledger’s chance observation of something extraordinary during a 1970 surgery to a legacy of more than a hundred thousand practitioners around the world of what he named craniosacral therapy, Touch is an inspiring film that chronicles a life lived for discovery, challenge, purpose, and profound concern for the health and wellbeing of others.