On Friday, March 11th we will screen 2 short movies, The Witness and Life Connected.

The Witness: Genre: Documentary, Directed by: Jenny Stein, 2000, 43 Minutes, English, 8 Best Documentary Wins, 2 Best of Festival Wins

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Can a kitten really transform a person’s life? For one tough, New York construction worker it did. Eddie Lama spent most of his life avoiding animals until one day this all changed. Share in his experiences of how he connected to others and became a more compassionate human being.

A Life Connected: Genre: Documentary, Produced by: Nonviolence United, 2008, 12 Minutes, English

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Our theme of compassion continues with A Life Connected. This short film does an amazing job in less than 12 minutes of helping humans connect with each other, the environment and nonhuman animals. The combination of these two films is bound to help open up any viewers heart to more compassion, sympathy and understanding of the world.