Films for a more sane civilization.

I am a visual storyteller aware of the strange, complex, “time between worlds” we are living through. I have a talent and passion for helping people, organizations and initiatives working in the space of systems change and cultural transformation — bringing forward an ecological civilization, a more convivial world-space broadly speaking. If that’s you, I can help you develop a potent visual narrative that transmits the good, true and beautiful you are helping bring into the world — be it a book, an idea, a project, a product, a business, a vision, a song.

See some of my work below and contact me for a free discovery call.

I am also independently creating new short films cut from long form interviews under the channel called In The Making. You can support the making of these films by joining my Patreon. Subscribe to my newsletter (below) to receive the films in your inbox.

My first feature length documentary that won best Social Issue Documentary at the Atlanta Docfest in 2013 and was hailed by Films for Action as one of “The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World.”

Technology matters. The consciousness behind the development of technology matters. This is why I teamed up with Holo (and Holochain), because of their groundbreaking work in the world of WEB 3.0.

I worked for Holo (and Holochain), through their successful IndieGoGo campaign and their ICO (Initial Community Offering).

A short promo documentary for Accelerating Appalachia. ACAP is the first regenerative and business accelerator program incentivizing farmers, growers, and agriculture-based businesses in the adoption of regenerative practices.

A breathtaking short documentary about the Nepal pilgrimage for Alliance for the Earth and the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project.

Laura Loescher’s healing origin story that lead her to the practice of Earth Altars.

My second feature length documentary RE:MEMBER, about the crucial importance of re-membering how to grieve as people and as a culture that has become grief illiterate.

From an interview with Joe Brewer author of Design Pathways for Regenerating Earth.

A trailer for a short documentary for Action Research +. AR+ Supports Action Researchers for Transformations at a time of eco-social crisis.

An excerpt from my interview with insight guide and founder of Alderlore Insight Center, a non-profit educational organization focusing on post-formal education. Bonnie is the ring leader of the Pop-Up School.

A sweeping interview with Jonathan Rowson. Jonathan is co-founder and Director of Perspectiva and author of the Joyous Struggle on Substack.

Jeremy Johnson is an author (Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness), publisher (Integral Imprint), managing editor (Integral Leadership Review), podcaster (Mutations) and integral philosopher.

Another film from the Jeremy Johnson interview. Jeremy is an author, publisher (Integral Imprint), managing editor (Integral Leadership Review), podcaster (Mutations) and integral philosopher.

My film for Perspectiva on the social innovation known as the Antidebate.

Joanna Macy is an environmental activist, author, and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She discusses the Great Turning in this short film.

Tolu Tharling is a 400 year old Nyingma Dzogchen monastery in Eastern Nepal. Head Lama Ngawang Tsultrim holds the family lineage of 7 generations.

Beautiful interview with Stan Rushworth. Stan is a teacher of Native American literature and the author of Sam Woods: American Healing, Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain, Diaspora’s Children, and (with Dahr Jamail) We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth.

Dana Carman Integral Consulting is dedicated to supporting purpose-driven leaders and organizations into greater alignment and impact in their service to this time of transition.

A trailer for educator Ahmed Afzaal’s book Teaching at Twilight: The Meaning of Education in the Age of Collapse.

From an interview with Joe Brewer author of Design Pathways for Regenerating Earth.

I was one of the many filmmakers collaborating on the unprecedented 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film by Audrey Ewell and the late Aaron Aites.

Another great short with Bonnitta Roy. Bonnie is a pioneer in post-formal education teaching insight practices for individuals who are developing meta-cognitive skills.

Bonnie is back. In this film she goes into deep nuances on what wisdom is and how we can cultivate it in our lives.

Jeremy Johnson is an author (Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness), publisher (Integral Imprint), managing editor (Integral Leadership Review), podcaster (Mutations) and integral philosopher. Jeremy’s substack.

Another film from the Bonnitta Roy interview.

A full length interview with Dougald Hine: who is a social thinker, writer, speaker and the co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME. His latest book is At Work in the Ruins(2023) and he publishes new essays on his Substack, Writing Home.

A full length interview with the eloquent Nigerian born trickster Báyò Akólomáfe. Báyò is a philosopher, (recovered) psychologist, professor, and poet. He is a teacher and public intellectual renowned for his unconventional views on global crises, activism, and social change.

One world is now gone and a new one has yet to emerge; we are now at the beginning of the beginning. We are living in the liminal: a time of pure potential and change, a time between worlds. This is it: we have arrived at the end of the world. Finally. Now we can start to build a new one.
— Zak Stein