PEACABLE KINGDOM
Dir. Jenny Stein

Documentary, USA, 2004, Digital, 70 min.

SYNOPSIS
Imagine awakening one day to realize that the work you were trained to do since birth went against the deepest of your being. In Peacable Kingdom, former farmers and farm animal rescuers share the life-changing experiences that led them to question some of our society’s most fundamental assumptions about animals. Described by Dr. Jane Goodall as “a masterpiece,” Peacable Kingdom is an inspiring sotry of personal redemption, compassion, healing and hope.

CAST
Lorri Bauston, Gene Bauston, Harold Brown, Howard Lyman, Jim Mason, Jessi Seif, Peaches Gillette and Jerry Cook.

CREW
Director and Editor: Jenny Stein; Producer: James LaVeck; Cinematography: Jason Longo and Jenny Stein; Sound: Jane Greenberg and James LaVeck

FILMMAKER BIO
Peacable Kingdom is the second documentary from Producing/Directing team James LaVeck and Jenny Stein, whose non-profit organization, Tribe of Heart, is dedicated to empowering people to teach compassion in their communities through the use of film. Peacable Kingdom had its world premiere at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center to a sell out crowd of 1,100, and has since then been featured in 26 film festivals, receiving the Ojai Film Festival theme award for “enriching the human spirit through film.”

LaVeck and Stein’s first documentary, The Witness, was featured in 25 film festivals, received seven Best Documentary awards, aired on several PBS stations, and has been released internationally in German, Spanish, and Japanese.

Jenny Stein is a graduate of UCLA’s Independent Producers Program and of Cornell University. James LaVeck is a graduate of Cornell University and a published novelist. They began their collaboration in 1990 with a feature screenplay based on one of James’s unpublished books. In 1997, they founded Tribe of Heart to respond to an unmet need for films that explore the human potential to respond to injustice with creativity and non-violence. In 2004, LaVeck and stein were honored with a Distinguished Guardian Award from In Defense of America, which recognizes work contributing to the international effort to instill greater levels of respect, responsibility, and compassion toward animals.

FILMOGRAPHY
The Wintess (2000)
Peacable Kindom (2004)