Georgia Wyss - MANTRA - Sounds Into Silence

Georgia Wyss – MANTRA – Sounds Into Silence

Aired Monday, March 16, 2020 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM GMT / 8:00 PM CET

What is Kirtan? Join Voice Visionary and Documentary Filmmaker, Director and Producer Georgia Wyss as they deepen the conversation and explore the new music and social phenomenon of chanting. Learn about people connecting with their true selves through singing and voice. Winner of Director’s Choice Illuminate Film Festival 2017 and Winner of Documentary World Cinema Maui Film Festival, Georgia Wyss has created a masterpiece that documents. How we can use music, mindfulness and voice to navigate through life more peacefully.

About Georgia Wyss

In 2003 Georgia co-founded the Barcelona based production company TengoTwo. Since then, in addition to her work as an editor, she has been producing documentaries and image films. She co-produced, co-wrote and edited the documentary ‘No Plorar Mai’ (Never to Cry) which the Catalan station TV3 aired in April 2013. In 2017 Georgia finished producing and directing her feature-length documentary about the yoga music phenomenon,‘Mantra – Sounds into Silence’ which entered in more than six festivals, winning awards in three of them: Illuminate Film Festival in Sedona, winner ‘director’s choice award’, Maui Film Festival, winner ‘documentary feature world cinema’ award and the Rishikesh Film Festival ‘best of fest” award. During 2018 & 19, the film was released theatrically in over 14 countries and still continues being released today.

Georgia’s most recent works as an editor include: ‘A Crude Awakening’, a feature documentary shown at over 70 film festivals, and winner of 5 awards for best documentary; the trailer and additional editing on Isabel Coixet’s feature ‘The Secret Life of Words’; and the feature documentary, ‘The Lightbulb Conspiracy’, directed by Cosima Dannoritzer and produced by Joan Úbeda, winner of Best Documentary at the Spanish Television Academy Awards 2011. In 2017 Georgia edited the German episode of the global football documentary series ‘Phemons’ produced by Fox Sports, and the feature length documentary, ‘Time Thieves’, directed by Cosima Dannoritzer, and produced by Polar Star Films, which won ‘Best Editing’ at the United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford in 2019.

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