The 5 Powers Movie
The 5 Powers Movie
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Orlando Jones
'THE 5 POWERS' NARRATOR / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Orlando Jones
'THE 5 POWERS' NARRATOR / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Sleepy Hollow’s Orlando Jones' Bio
On the Fox hit Sleepy Hollow , Orlando Jones wore the clothes of Captain Frank Irving, the voice of reason in a town plagued by a mysterious headless horseman. On the Internet, he's his show's biggest fan, or at least one of them; he even runs his own Tumblr, much to the delight of Sleepyheads.
Kanye West, Maroon Five and David Banner all made their television debuts on the Orlando Jones Show on FX in the early 2000s. His love of music and eye for launching new talent may not be surprising, but audiences will be surprised to learn that he is a prolific singer in his own right.
Although he’s known to many audiences as a comedic talent, Jones has in fact worked in every facet and genre of the filmed entertainment business for nearly two decades. He began his career as a teenaged comedy writer on one of the most popular shows in TV history, Cosby Show spin-off A Different World.
After working on the pilot to Fox’s hit show Martin (starring Martin Lawrence) Jones put his write my movie review for me career on hold and relocated to New York to launch the new cable channel FX, a daily live music show where he interviewed renowned musical acts including Nirvana, Flaming Lips, Arrested Development and many others.
Orlando's tweet about his involvement in our project
Aug 22, 2014 Orlando Jones is on a mission to get people to “listen without prejudice, love without limits, and reverse the hate.”
"For me, bullets represent those who have fought and died in the struggle for human rights, because civil rights are human rights and an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere, and I realized that I could no longer stay silent. But to be fair, where was my voice when those injustices happened in other parts of the world? I didn’t say anything because I was being apathetic, so my challenge was meant to bring attention to the disease of apathy."
Noam Dromi
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Noam Dromi
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Noam Dromi is a media & technology executive specializing in transmedia / cross platform communications strategies for major motion pictures. You may have heard of him in the media as a scientist who shared his thoughts on improving teaching practices with digital tools in Top The Art of Efficient Grading: How Classroom Monitoring Software Saves Educators Time. Dromi began his Hollywood career at the age of 15 as a production assistant on low budget Hollywood films.
He co-wrote the Warner Bros/Alcon Entertainment financed film Dolphin Tale starring Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr & Ashley Judd and the 34 million dollar sequel Dolphin Tale 2, which was released in theaters on September 12, 2014. Dolphin Tale 2 in its first 2 weeks in theaters has earned $ 29 mil. at the box office.
He co-hosts the award winning podcast MIPtalk - Conversations with the World's Most Interesting People.
Dave Gibbons
COMIC BOOK ARTIST, WRITER AND LETTERER
(WATCHMEN, GREEN LANTERN)
Dave Gibbons
COMIC BOOK ARTIST, WRITER AND LETTERER
(WATCHMEN, GREEN LANTERN)
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3 Heroes - 5 Powers
AND A MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMIC CHANGE WORLD HISTORY
3 Heroes - 5 Powers
AND A MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMIC CHANGE WORLD HISTORY
ALFRED HASSLER
Alfred Hassler worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) from 1941 to 1974. He wrote books and countless articles, while his most famous creation would be the 1958 Montgomery Story comic book about the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King.
In 1965, Alfred Hassler led a mission to Vietnam and met Thich Nhat Hanh and Sister Chan Khong. For more than a decade, they would work together to raise the voice of the Vietnamese Buddhist movement.
THICH NHAT HANH
A Buddhist Zen master, poet, teacher and author, Thich Nhat Hanh was one of the Buddhist opposition against the US-backed regime during the Vietnam War and the violence of both warring parties- a stance that left him exiled from his native Vietnam for four decades. During the late 1960s, he became one of the icons of the international antiwar movement. Before his exile, Thich Nhat Hanh had spent time in the West, studying at Princeton and teaching at Columbia in the early 1960s.
SISTER CHAN KHONG
Known during the Vietnam war by her lay name, Cao Ngoc Phuong, Sister Chan Khong is a Buddhist nun who began working to improve the living conditions of the Vietnamese poor at the young age of 13. After her studies, she became a professor of biology at Saigon University. In 1964 she joined Thich Nhat Hanh, a progressibe buddhist monk who was calling for peace and solidarity with those who were suffering.
MLK and The Montgomery Story
THE COMIC BOOK THAT INSPIRED OUR ADVENTURE
MLK and The Montgomery Story
THE COMIC BOOK THAT INSPIRED OUR ADVENTURE
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
One of the 'The 5 Powers' film's big surprises, is the largely unknown comic book that turned Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. into a Superhero. Dr. Sylvia Rhor, Martin Luther King, Jr. scholar from NYU, shares the origins of the powerful "Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story" Comic Book.
In 1956, Alfred Hassler had an idea: he wanted to work with Martin Luther King to produce a comic book - a comic book to be distributed in the South to young and old, African Americans and white Americans, to tell the story of the struggle for civil rights in Montgomery.
The idea itself was groundbreaking. Rarely does one think of a comic book as an important tool in the struggle for civil rights, but this comic book has been quietly changing the course of history around the world for over 50 years.
Buy the comic or read the digital copy on the Stanford University site.
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3 Superheroes of Peace use the 5 Powers of Faith, Diligence, Mindfulness, Concentration and Insight to change the course of history and inspire millions around the world. Planting seeds of peace in the deep mud of war.
The Comic Book follows the lives of Alfred Hassler, an American anti-war hero, Vietnamese peace activist Sister Chan Khong and Zen Master, Thich Nha Hanh, whom Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967.
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There are two communities of workers that provide Blooming Lotus Design with their cotton and finished apparel.One is the field workers themselves, who plant and harvest our cotton crop in Southern India. These are primarily women, often with their children, who are particularly vulnerable to a wide range of chemicals that are used in conventional cotton fields. In our case, they and their families can work and play in our cotton fields with no adverse effects.
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