{"id":231,"date":"2016-11-29T18:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T18:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/sacred\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2019-03-05T23:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T23:02:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/sacred\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when religious hatred dominates the world\u2019s headlines, the feature-length documentary\u00a0<strong><em>Sacred\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>explores faith as a primary human experience, revealing how people across the world turn to ritual and prayer to navigate the milestones and crises of private life.\u00a0<strong><em>Sacred<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0embarks on a global journey of spirituality, tracing religious ritual at birth, adolescence, marriage, death and other key moments of human life.\u00a0<strong><em>Sacred<\/em><\/strong> aired\u00a0<u>Monday, December 10 at 10 p.m. on PBS.\u00a0<\/u>The film is available to stream at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pbs.org\/sacred\">pbs.org\/sacred<\/a>\u00a0and on PBS apps.<\/p>\n<p>Academy Award-winning director Thomas Lennon commissioned or sourced contributions from top international filmmakers in order to capture more than 40 diverse stories from 25 countries \u2013 never once leaving his New York office. Sweeping in its global reach, yet intensely intimate, the film is a tour de force that unifies these disparate scenes into a single work, told without narration, without experts and, for long stretches, without words at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, not many people would dispute the importance of religion,\u201d said director Thomas Lennon, \u201cBut we in media usually look at it socially and politically.\u00a0 Here the goal is to plunge the viewer into a series of private experiences of faith and hopefully the intensity of that encounter shakes up our reactions, triggers something fresh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Setting the stage for the journey,\u00a0<strong><em>Sacred\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>opens with a monk embarking on his Kaihogyo, a 1,000-day walk around Mt. Hiei in Japan. Continuing with a young Muslim father from Cairo chanting the call to prayer to his baby, who is only minutes old, the film\u2019s approach is both lyrical and linear as it drives forward in time: from the initiations of infancy (bris, baptism and more) to coming-of-age ceremonies in Mandalay, Jerusalem and the San Carlos Apache Reservation, featuring boys and girls at the cusp of adolescence. In Spain and then India, the film encounters teenagers as they lean on their faith to navigate the most intimate pressures of their lives: the strains between two parents and the prohibitions of dating. The film travels through marriage and the trials of adulthood through to the rites\u2014some of them solemn, others riotous and drunken\u2014by which we remember and honor our dead.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sacred\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>has screened at numerous festivals across six continents, including DOC NYC, Frozen River Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Montclair Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Spirit Film Festival and Tokyo International Film Festival. It was also shown at the RiverRun International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sacred<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a WLIW LLC\u00a0production for WNET in co-production with Japan\u2019s WOWOW. Thomas Lennon is director and producer. Jessica Wolfson is co-producer. Julie Anderson and William F. Baker are executive producers. Stephen Segaller is executive in charge. Maeve O\u2019Boyle is supervising editor. 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