Hi {{first_name}},
Recently, on social media I started posting “Conscious Media Pick of the Week.”
Short videos about the conscious media titles I recommend.
They're little nuggets of goodness, two minutes or less.
This week’s pick is the star-studded I HEART HUCKABEES. A quirky, mind-bending comedy about coincidence, meaning, and the strange ways our lives connect.
If you haven’t seen the film (or need a reminder about it), it’s a great pick whether you want diversion and entertainment OR if you want something thought-provoking.
I love this film because it’s funny on the surface. But not that far underneath, it's asking a big question: are we all connected and part of something meaningful, or is there no meaning except for what we’re just making up as we go?
READ MORE ABOUT THE FILM AND WATCH THIS WEEK’S PICK VIDEO (90 sec):
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“The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.” — Bernard Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman in I HEART HUCKABEES)
The movie is available in the U.S. for rental (TVOD) on Amazon Prime and YouTube.
After you watch it, or if you've seen it before, let me know what you think!
— Kia Kiso-Brennan
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About the podcast
“Convos About Conscious Media With Kia” is a guided expedition into the conscious media landscape: solo episodes on research, ideas, and what I'm learning, plus conversations with filmmakers, festival programmers, distributors, audience members, and the experts shaping this category from the inside. As the episode count grows, we will collectively discover what conscious media is. All of its facets and nuances. Not because anyone handed you a definition. Because we're building it together.
About the company
Many of you signed up for the Conscious Media Visionaries “CMV” email list years ago, back in the late 2010s, when CMV was running events and panels and gathering the early version of this community. Then, around 2020, I went quiet. The world shifted and so did I. I took time to listen for what this company actually wanted to become, instead of forcing the version I'd been pushing.
Six years later, there is a different vision, a clearer purpose, and much bigger plans. CMV is back, and it's evolving into something I think you're going to want to see. The full unveiling will come over the next few months. The “Convos About Conscious Media with Kia” podcast is the first public step.
P.S. You may have known me as Kia Kiso — same person, updated name (now Kia Kiso-Brennan). Thirty years of credits live under both.