I am [videorecording] / Shady Acres Entertainment ; Flying Eye Productions in association with A Homemade Canvas production present ; a Shady Acres film ; written and directed by Tom Shadyac ; produced by Dagan Handy ; executive producers, Jonathan Watson, Jennifer Abbott.
Originally produced as a documentary in 2010. Narrator, Tom Shadyac; commentators Ray Anderson, Marc Ian Barasch, Coleman Barks, Noam Chomsky, John Francis, Thom Hartmann, Dacher Keltner, Rollin McCraty, Chris Jordan, Lynne McTaggart, Daniel Quinn, Dean Radin, Elisabet Sahtouris, Marilyn Schlitz, Richard Shadyac, David Suzuki, Desmond Tutu, Howard Zinn.
Summary:
Don't know who Tom Shadyac is? As a writer and a director, Shadyac first unleashed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor remake on the world, and then a string of film fiascoes, but that's all behind him now. A bike accident left him with a host of debilitating maladies and brought him to the verge of suicide, so he took stock of his life and set out on a quest to answer some of life's greatest questions. What's wrong with the world? How do we go about fixing it? Is the fundamental nature of man essentially benevolent or cruel? So he traveled around, enlisting the aid of what he calls "significant minds" --journalists, scientists, spiritual leaders, scholars--to understand life's essential questions. "I Am" is his documentary about this quest.
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