Source to Screen ~ April 8 – 12
Accessing, Manifesting, and Transmitting Great Ideas
As part of the ILLUMINATE Film Festival’s commitment to education and training support for evolutionary creators, we are excited to offer a supercharged 5 day creativity lab for media professionals and emerging creators immediately following our 2024 Film Festival in Santa Barbara. ILLUMINATE has partnered with the multi-award winning producer/director team of Paola di Florio and Peter Rader to offer this exciting program.
This immersive week-long lab is for creators of all kinds––writers, inventors, filmmakers, musicians, and entrepreneurs––anyone who wishes to integrate their spirituality and creativity to tap into the deepest source of inspiration and higher intelligence as they bring guided work into the world, which seems more imperative than ever.
Participants of S2S have gone on to write novels, award-winning screenplays, launch businesses, meditation centers, wellness programs at major tech companies and more. Here’s what some of them had to say about the experience:
“Expansive, empowering, uplifting and dynamic! Absolutely one of the best creative experiences I have ever had.”
~Jody M. / S2S ESALEN
“Career and life-altering, with an entirely new and incisive perspective on creativity.”
~David P. / S2S SEDONA
Find Your Creative Community at S2S
Many people talk about meeting their “community” at S2S, and they stay in touch for years following the lab experience. We’ve also witnessed some remarkable synchronicities that have advanced participant’s goals and careers.
In a world of great distraction that doesn’t encourage deep listening, we must reverse those outer-facing sensory “searchlights” and go inwards. When you dive into the field of all possibilities, ideas surprisingly find you with a very specific intention. As you attune to that purpose, you gain discernment, direction, momentum, and flow.
Over the course of five days, you’ll face the “obstacles” that get in the way of meaningful work, including inertia, ego, outer blocks, and inner resistance. You will discover how obstacles can become allies in your process to develop organic, sustainable partnerships, growth, and co-creation.
In this workshop, you’ll be guided through:
Nonlinear brainstorming to invite new and deeper relationships to ideas.
“Hotseat Exercises” and small group breakouts to foster vulnerability and creative risk-taking.
Kinetic creation, such as yoga, meditation, and energy balancing, to increase attunement.
Radical pivots and adaptivity to meet obstacles with poise and intelligence.
Case studies.
Employing timeless principles from Vedic philosophy, this lab is designed to deepen our inspiration and help us tap into the matrix of our creative capacity. Every step of the curriculum is infused with practical solutions to push through whatever is in our way and help recalibrate our intentions and goals.
The lab is open (by application) to creators of all levels. You can attend either as an “incubator” (with a specific project or idea that you want to workshop) or as an “observer/participant” (to glean knowledge about conscious creation by watching the process unfold and also participating). In either case, you must submit a one-page application describing your background and creative goals. If you’re bringing a project to the lab, please describe it in one paragraph, tell us where you are with it, and where you want to take it.
Your Workshop Facilitators
Paola di Florio
Paola di Florio is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated director, writer, producer, and Sundance Jury Prize-nominee. An NYU graduate, she’s the founder of Counterpoint Films––a vanguard in the conscious media space, following the launch of the top-grossing documentary Awake: The Life of Yogananda. Her company’s mission is to create experiences through storytelling that awaken the human spirit.
Di Florio’s work has received special screenings at the U.S. Congress and the British House of Lords and has been distributed throughout the world, both theatrically as well as on Netflix, HBO, CNN, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, and more. The New York Times described her work as “extraordinary” and “poignant.” Los Angeles Times found it “deeply affecting, revelatory [and] gripping;” The Hollywood Reporter said that it “should be required viewing for all Americans.”
Di Florio has guest-lectured at UCLA, UCS, Stanford and Berkeley. She is a Kriya Yoga practitioner and has been certified in vinyasa yoga, kundalini, and also in Pranic healing. She is the proud mother of two young men.
Peter Rader
Peter Rader, has worked as a film and television writer/producer for 30 years. Following his first script, Waterworld (1995), he’s developed projects for industry leaders such as Steven Spielberg and Dino De Laurentiis.
An accomplished author, Rader published his first book in 2013: Mike Wallace: A Life, a biography of the legendary CBS journalist, which Rader was hired to adapt into a script for director Rob Reiner. Most recently, Rader wrote Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever (Simon & Schuster, 2018), which is being adapted for the screen by Emmy & Golden Globe winner Michael Sucsy.
Rader attended Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is accomplished in a broad range of fields, including music and photography.
Source to Screen Lab
April 8-12, 2024
Course price: $1,195
Santa Barbara, CA
(Meals included, accommodations not included)
Schedule Details
Monday, April 8:
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm (Catered dinner)
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday:
- Continental Breakfast for those staying at The Empathy Center
- Morning Session: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
(Catered lunch) - Afternoon Session: 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
(Catered dinner)
Friday, April 12:
- Continental Breakfast for those staying at The Empathy Center
- 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: The Empathy Center
Situated in the serene hills overlooking Santa Barbara with easy access to Skofield Park, the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens and spectacular hiking trails, the just-launched Empathy Center is a magical retreat locale, which offers newly constructed, monastic-style rooms on campus for $90/night. The number of rooms is limited and reservations are first come, first served.
Daily self-serve continental breakfast is offered in a communal kitchen, along with a daily catered vegetarian lunch and dinner.
The Empathy Center, 1964 Las Canoas Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Accommodations
While S2S Lab Participants are welcome to make their own accommodation arrangements and we are certainly open to local residents, we find that there is something sacred that happens when we are all “on campus” together at retreat centers like Empathy, where the magic can continue after hours. The limited rooms (shared doubles) are available on a first come, first serve basis.
