The Hartley Film Foundation

The Hartley Film Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivation, support and distribution of the best documentaries and audio meditations on world religions and spirituality. Hartley supports established filmmakers traveling the world to...

Salma Hayek on Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet

Paul MacInnes talks to the actor about her animated version of Kahlil Gibran’s bestseller The Prophet Your animated adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet is about a deported poet delivering sermons. It’s not your...

Kumaré: Creating Authenticity

Why do individuals need an authentic source? Why must we have a real guru or supernatural force to legitimize our faith? In the film Kumaré, Kumaré’s followers were willing to listen to him because...

Hillsong: Let Hope Rise

The church that conquered the album charts is hoping to do the same at the box office. The Hillsong Church’s latest foray into mass media is the feature film, Hillsong: Let Hope Rise, which...

8 Excellent Movies about Religion

These films are examples of passion plays, or are inspired by the current of traditional religious stories that pass through the center of any given culture. Why Has The Bodhidharma Left For The East...