Cast & Crew

  • Producers & Directors

    Janet Z. Giler, Ph.D., studied healing with Karmu. Her master's thesis (1981) describes how he thought healing occurred. An edited version, Karmu - Urban Shaman (2012), is available as an ebook at Amazon. She has been counseling individuals and families since 1982. Her three other works are: Socially ADDept: A teacher manual (Wiley, 2011); The ADDept Curriculum (CES, 2000) which comes with the training video From Acting out to Fitting In (CES, 2000, with editing by Justin Bergeron). Her first book Redefining Mr. Right (New Harbinger, 1993) was cowritten with writer Kathleen Neumeyer. She currently practices family therapy in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.
    Lewis H. Gould is a recipient of the Emmy Award (nine-time nominee), the Peabody Award and the Producers Guild of America Episodic Television Award for producing the NBC crime drama, “Law & Order”. He has directed multiple episodes of “Law & Order” as well as the television shows, “Medium”, “Judging Amy” and “Close To Home”. Prior to his long run as a producer and director in episodic television, Lewis worked as an A.D. and U.P.M. on over fifty feature film and televison productions. He is a member of The Directors Guild of America, The Producers Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild - AFTRA and The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
    Justin Bergeron has over 15 years experience as a professional film/video producer and editor. Mr. Bergeron has served in a variety of creative & technical roles on many films including Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Journey to the Center of the Earth, 3-D. He executive produced the award winning indie film Fix, starring Olivia Wilde and recently produced and edited the critically acclaimed documentary The United States of Football. Presently Mr. Bergeron oversees all production for Wizards of the Coast, the creators of Magic the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons.
    Matt Sneddon has worked professionally for 30 years as a writer, journalist, composer, and film maker. He lives in Albuquerque, NM.
  • Interviewees

    Andrew Weil, MD

    Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health.

    Daniel Goleman, PhD

    Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist and science journalist. Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times. His 1995 book Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half, with more than 5,000,000 copies in print worldwide in 40 languages, and has been a best seller in many countries.

    Murshid Samuel Lewis

    Samuel L. Lewis was a student of Inayat Khan, who gave him the name Ahmed Murad in 1946. Samuel Lewis, now Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti or Sufi Sam as he was popularly known, devoted his life to peace through action. Later in his life he was recognized as Murshid - the Arabic for "Exalted Teacher." As a spiritual leader he founded the movement Dances of Universal Peace. The Dances of Universal Peace continue to be practiced and shared by the murshids of Sufi Sam.

    Pir Shabda Kahn

    Shabda Kahn has been a disciple of Sufism since 1969. He is a direct disciple of Murshid Samuel Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti) and worked closely with the great American Mystic Joe Miller. Shabda is currently the Pir (Spiritual Director) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International and the Director of the Chisti Sabri School of Music. He is also a disciple of the illustrious Tibetan Buddhist Master, the 12the Tai Situpa Rinpoche.

    Abraham Sussman, PsyD

    Abraham Roy Sussman, Psy.D., is a clinical psychogist and musician who has been engaged in the healing arts since the early 1970's. Currently, he travels worldwide as an activist peacemaker, teaching meditation and psychological healing, and sharing a spiritual practice known as Dances of Universal Peace.

    Rev. Ronald White, MD

    Reverend Ronald White is a Medical Doctor of Medicine and Psychiatry. He is also a Unitarian Universalist Pastor, and is a Minister at the First Church of Roxbury.

    Jon Lieff, MD

    Jon Lieff, M.D., a graduate of Harvard Medical School, is a neuropsychiatrist who is a past president of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He treats hospitalized patients with complex medical illnesses, as well as patients in brain injury programs. Dr. Lieff’s blog and website, Searching for the Mind, explores scientific data relevant to the emerging view of mind as an integral aspect of nature.

    Guy David Leveaux, MD

    Guy David Leveaux, M.D., is an Emergency Medicine Specialist and has 40 years of experience and practices in Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Services, Family Medicine, and General Practice.

Additional Interviewees

Paul Bryceson
Janet Z. Giler
Lewis H. Gould
R.L. Green
Iqbal (Jonathan Lewis)
Marieba Jos
Karmu (aka Edgar Warner)
Caroline Lato
Michael Lelyveld
SallyAnn (Azimat) Schrieber-Cohn
Ruthann Sneider
Beth Zagoren

Cast & Crew

Producers: Janet Z. Giler
Lewis H. Gould
Directors: Janet Z. Giler
Lewis H. Gould
Co-Producers: Justin Bergeron
Matthew Sneddon
Consulting Producer: Michael P. Shoob
Editors: Justin Bergeron
Matteo Saradini
Cinematographers: Matthew Sneddon
Dan Karlok
Jason Blalock
Gary Wright
Justin Bergeron
Rosalie Post
Paul Mathieu
Sound Recording: Stuart Cody
Dan Karlok
Jason Blalock
Gary Wright
Justin Bergeron
Paul Mathieu
Photographers: Warren Goldberg
RJ Levison
Rick Levy
Rosalie Post
Music: Guru Blanket Band: “Give Everybody What they Need”
Guru Blanket Band: “Old Man”
Guru Blanket Band: “Kyrie”
Guru Blanket Band: “So Free”
Louis Armstrong: “Amazing Grace”
Abraham Sussman & Neil Douglas Klotz: “Inanreya”
Abraham Sussman: “One Together”
Cast:
(in alphabetical order)
Paul Bryceson
Janet Zubeida Giler
Daniel Goleman
Lewis H. Gould
R.L. Green
Iqbal (Jonathan Lewis)
Mareba Jos
Pir Shabda Kahn
Karmu (Edgar Warner)
Caroline Lato
Michael Lelyveld
Guy David Leveaux
Murshid Samuel Lewis
Jonathan Lieff
SallyAnn (Azimat) Schreiber-Cohn
Ruthann Sneider
Abraham Sussman
Andrew Weil
Ronald Bruce White
Beth Zagoren

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  • About Karmu

    Auto mechanic by day and urban shaman by night, for forty years Karmu welcomed anyone in need into his home. He helped thousands of people from drug addicts to students and professors at Harvard University. He inspired hope in those who sought him out and treated all with the same respect and helping hand that he offered the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Baba Ram Dass and R. D. Laing. Through archival footage and contemporary interviews with artists, teachers and doctors, Karmu, A Place In The Sun portrays an incredible man and his legacy of physical, emotional and spiritual healing.
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