Stephen Simon

Yes, and, if you’re ever been a fan of movies, it almost certainly already has….and not just once.

Movies have inspired us ever since their inception a century ago. Not ALL movies. Certainly not. Films that degrade our humanity with graphic and senseless violence have the opposite effect of inspiration; however, the legacy of film is overflowing with films that show us who we are, and can be, as a species when we operate at our very best.

If we see a particular film at just the right moment in our lives, it can inspire, thrill, and entertain us, and also literally change our perception of who we are.

Please consider, for example, a classic film such as IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. If you see that film at a moment in your life when all seems bleak, and you see George Bailey realize how much love he has indeed given and received, it can instantly change your own perceptions. “NO man is a failure who has friends” can also lift you from one mood into another.

What if you don’t know how you’re going to manifest your dreams and you see FIELD OF DREAMS. “If you build it, they will come”, is so simple and so profound that it can instantaneously move you from worry to excitement.

What if you have lost the person you thought was the only love of your life? Your one “true” soul mate? And then you see SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE and realize that “it” can happen more than once?

All of those are life-changing moments if we allow them to be.

Movies are the greatest communication medium ever invented. In a film, we can receive glimpses of our potential, our dreams, our hopes, and our ambitions, in a way that is unparalleled in any other medium.

I have produced, and recently directed, films for over thirty years. Some I am very proud of, some I have mixed feelings about, and some I don’t mention!! The movies about which I am the most proud (SOMEWHERE IN TIME, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, and CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD) all were made with the hopes of inspiring those who were drawn to experience them.

Hollywood, however, has changed drastically over the last decade or so, and not for the better. We can no longer count on the studios to produce the kind of films that seek to inspire and uplift us. Every once in a while, that kind of film does slip through the cracks of the Hollywood marketing machine but not often. That mission has now been undertaken by the independent film world.

Art house theaters and film festivals around the world are now the venues where hope and inspiration reside. The challenge for all of us who love those kinds of movies is that we can’t go to all those festivals, and many of us don’t even have art house theaters near us.

And that’s why we formed The Spiritual Cinema Circle. Every month, we send four films to the members of our community that they then own and can add to their DVD collections. Each volume consists of three shorts (or two shorts and a documentary) and a feature film. On each volume, a filmmaker and a member of our community join me for in-depth discussions of each film. We have subscribers in all fifty of the United States and in 70 countries around the world.

70 to 80 percent of the films we distribute are unavailable through other distributors. You won’t find most of them at Netflix or Blockbuster.

Our community members own the films they receive each month. When you build your own film library, you just might have the appropriate film to show to a friend or family member who is looking for some inspiration. We hear from our community all the time, through emails and our message boards, that they had just the right movie at the right moment to show a friend.

Here are the trailers of the current month movies:

Sometimes, that can even change their lives.

I invite you to join us. Through movies that uplift and inspire our souls, we can indeed change the world…one film at a time.

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