Conscious Cinema with Peter Rader - EP 321

Waterworld screenwriter Peter Rader shares his journey from Hollywood’s chaos to the world of conscious cinema. After meeting his wife, Oscar and Emmy-nominated filmmaker and TV producer Paola di Florio, his path was transformed, leading to soul-stirring films like Awake: The Life of Yogananda and My Father, the Healer, which unveils the secret life of a gifted Qigong Master healer who grew up under the harsh restrictions of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and healed generational trauma. Peter shares his insights on the toxic patterns of Hollywood cinema and why he now champions storytelling that awakens and heals. You will learn about the 3-step creative process—Creation, Manifestation, Transmission— that he and Paola teach in their Source to Screen workshops, and their plans to reboot Waterworld as a mystical eco-feminist tale tied to ocean activism. This episode is a deep call to artists, seekers, and visionaries ready to co-create a more awakened world.

 

NOTE: Master Li, the subject of My Father, the Healer, was a guest along with his wife and son on The Spiritual Forum podcast three years ago. Link to this episode on Spotify is https://open.spotify.com/episode/4GJD1VajS1N4Ex023783jO?si=a9049b6ddccd4992.

 

🔗 Peter Rader's website : https://www.peterrader.com/

Source to Screen workshop this August: https://sourcetoscreen.com/

🎬 Peter's latest film features Master Li, a podcast guest that featured on The Spiritual Forum podcast show three years ago. Link to that podcast is: https://youtu.be/AzAv3iShhRc?si=iL9DFDHu5IYal0A0

👉 Link to the trailer for My Father, The Healer: https://vimeo.com/1080309772

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Bio - Peter Rader has worked as a film and television writer for 20 years. His first script, Waterworld, was produced by Universal in 1995. He has developed numerous projects for other studios, and industry leaders such as Steven Spielberg, Dino De Laurentiis and John Davis. He has worked as a cinematographer, editor  and producer on a number of award-winning documentary projects, including AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda, which THE GUARDIAN dubbed the Indie sleeper hit of 2014, following its extensive worldwide theatrical run. Rader's first book, Mike Wallace: A Life (St. Martin’s Press, 2013), was a critically acclaimed biography of the legendary CBS journalist. His second book, Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse and the Rivalry that Changed Acting Forever (Simon & Schuster, 2018), is a riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century. Rader attended Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is accomplished in a broad range of fields, including music and photography.  He has taught classes and workshops in writing and filmmaking at Harvard, Los Angeles Film School, and Cal State Fullerton. Rader has also volunteered to teach writing to homeless people at Step Up on Second.   

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