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 September 10, 2010 - our first public screening.  We are thinking of it as a giant focus group, as we're handing out one page questionnaires to see how this 83 minute cut plays.  Its free and open to the public at the California INstitute for Integral Studies.  7 - 9 PM in Namaste Hall.  We're preparing the media for the sound mix tomorrow.  We are ready.  With all the press lately, it seems like good timing for this documentary.

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Well, we're on our way to the annual Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies conference in San Jose.  It is completely sold out this year with over 600 people attending.  Something is going on.  Almost everyone is our 75 minute rough cut is going to be there speaking.  We decided not to have a screening there because we are deciding whether we want to shoot for a feature documentary, a tv series, or both.  We have our non-profit fiscal sponsor now, From the Heart Productions, so we accept donations to keep going.continue reading...

 TARA's DAUGHTERS is entered in the Ladyfilmmakers Festival. Featuring female directors, writers, and producers - the festival is especially interesting to us because it follows a hybrid model.

We submitted TARA's DAUGHTERS and it was deemed worthy of entry by the festival's initial reviewers.  Now it is on their site for the on-line voting portion: http://ladyfilmmakers.com/Vote_Now_.htmlcontinue reading...

Well, this has been an amazing summer so far.  

In June we were able to shoot the start of Dr. Stephen Ross' psilocybin research study, an expanded project designed to further investigate Dr. Charles Grob's amazingly positive results at UCLA.  NYU's Bluestone Research Center hosts the the project.  The great team of intelligent, dedicated, committed people having already found volunteer subjects reporting fantastic, important results for themselves.  continue reading...

This blog is about our film in production on medical research being done with psychedelic. We are interested in your input. You, dear reader, can help shape the documentary if you are so inclined. We are looking for a good title and will reward the winning suggestion with a credit for those who create it. So, sign in and get on our email list.

I just got back from interviewing Annie's 83 year old mother who lives in Walnut Creek, Ca.  She is a spirited, energetic woman who hikes 3 miles a day and drives to see her daughter as often as they can.  It is hard to know what to say, when someone you have not met agrees to let you into her home for a personal interview during such a difficult and sad time in life.  And what could I say?  We went through wonderful pictures of Annie's childhood.  I learned a lot more about her family and was amazed once again by the family's courage.continue reading...

 Fires.  As many of you know, fires get my attention because of the loss of my home and business to a wildfire in Malibu years ago.  The air in all of Southern California was tinged by ashes yesterday due to the fires in Santa Barbara.  I was fortunate to be there a few weeks ago to hear His Holiness, the Dalai Lama speak at the University of California Santa Barbara.  It was a perfect day in every way.  I was struck by how beautiful the area is.  UCSB has a campus with a view of the ocean and its own lagoon.continue reading...

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I realize if you have found "Tara's Daughters" here it is because someone asked you to take a look, as the alpha test of this site is below the Internet radar until we fill things out.continue reading...