About Us
Stephanie Slade
EMMY award winner Stephanie Slade produced and designed projects for broadcast, print, film and web for over 20 years. A media specialist, she holds a Masters of Arts in Education degree from University of Phoenix and a Bachelors degree in Art from California State East Bay. She has produced many documentaries and pioneered international networked collaborative creative projects. Her company, Slade Digital, has provided production and animation services for network, cable, education, commercial and corporate clients. Connected with an international team of creative and technical broadcast professionals and filmmakers, she facilitates all aspects of media creation and integration. Ms. Slade is currently the Executive Director of the Unity Peace Film Project.
Barbara Dexter
Barbara Dexter has over 15 years experience working extensively in the private and not-for-profit sectors. Ms. Dexter was employed at Bank of America in high net worth private banking and philanthropic management. Her clients included affluent families, charities and private foundations. In addition Ms. Dexter raised funds and organized funding projects for well-respected organizations including Seattle Symphony, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and the Seattle Museum of History and Industry. She holds a Bachelors degree in Arts Administration from Western Washington University and a Certificate in Fundraising Management from the University of Washington. She has participated in many community fundraising efforts and is currently the Managing Director of the Unity Peace Film Project.
Advisory Committee
Stephanie Slade: M.A.E.D., Executive Director of Unity Peace Film Project, www.SladeDigital.com
Barbara Dexter: Managing Director, Unity Peace Film Project
Rev. Dr. Patricia Keel: Unity of Berkeley, title sponsor,
www.UnityBerkeley.org
Colleen O’Hara: Producer, Director, Entrepreneur, www.ButterFlutters.com
Silva Mirzoian: Founder & Director, Passion & Dreams Foundation, and Gang of Hope, www.PassionsDreams.org
Andi Hicks: Executive Director, Mary Pickford Institute of Film Education, www.MaryPickford.com
Sponsors & Grants
Unity of Berkeley, Unity of Berkeley is the title sponsor, hosting organization, incubator, and provider of fiscal services for the Unity Peace Film Project.
Slade Digital, sponsor of the production and film making documentation services including website design and uploads of the Expressions for What Peace Means to Me, and serves as a creative and technical resource. www.sladedigital.com
Giant Steps of America, a non-profit foundation that gives youth at risk employment and life skills. Charles Mozelle is the Executive Director. Silkworm Peace Institute of USA, a donor and also active in the development and direction of the Unity Peace Film Project. The Executive Director is Takashi Tanemori, a survivor of Hiroshima and author of Hiroshima, Bridge to Forgiveness.
Saul Zaentz Company, Berkeley, California, a start-up grant provider.
Vision
Respecting cultural and religious beliefs, political ideologies and life experiences we believe in the importance of everybody having the opportunity to voice his or her personal vision of what true, and lasting, peace means to ourselves, our families, our communities, and our world.
We will gain a greater understanding of our commonality and connectedness and have the opportunity to motivate discussion of how lasting peace is defined, what it looks like and how it is achieved.
In March 2010, we will celebrate and honor peace through the creative expression submitted to our Unity Film Peace Project, located in Berkeley, California. We are producing a television show, a number of short films,
and a documentary about our Unity Peace Project.
The Unity Peace Festival will travel and expand as more expressions of peace are created. Our mission to enhance peaceful communication and build a greater understanding of what peace means, personal, powerful, and heart to heart, will spread worldwide.
We encourage everyone to join us on this journey of creation.
What does peace mean to you? Write an essay or poem. Journal your thoughts and experiences and submit them.
Create a film or music video, dance, compose a song or piece of art and submit it. Donate. Visit our website often to see how others have envisioned peace in their lives, communities and for our world.
Press Release
“What Peace Means to Me,” Unity Peace Festival Planned
(Berkeley, CA, October 3, 2009)– Unity of Berkeley is sponsoring a Peace Festival planned for March 2010. Students, teachers and parents can create art projects and essays using the theme “What peace means to me.”
“We have received a 'tree' grant from Academy Award winning Berkley film maker Saul Zaentz, producer of film such classics as One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus,” said festival organizer Emmy Award winning video producer Stephanie Slade of Oakland.
“All ages are welcome,” Ms. Slade said. “The event begins on Tuesday afternoons starting October 20 and running through December 1 at Unity of Berkeley, 2401 Le Conte @ Scenic Avenue. “Participants will create collaborative works on our peace theme and get help with media expressions such as video, Photoshop, photography and other documentation, presentation and performance needs,” she added.
One of the organizers of the Unity Peace Festival is Takashi Tanemori who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima where he lived with his family. His father, mother, grandparents and two sisters were killed in the bombing. He survived a suicide attempt, two heart attacks and stomach cancer, and now is blind as a result of nuclear radiation from the attack.
“My anger consumed me for 40 years after many in my family died in the bombing,” Mr. Tanemori said.
But Mr.Tanemori said he isn't bitter. He isn't even angry.
"Everything I've experienced, each instant, has brought me to where I am now," he explained. "I realized my life was spared for a reason," he added.
Mr. Tanemori wrote Hiroshima: Bridge to Forgiveness, published in 2007.
“The website, www.unitypeacefilmproject.com is currently under construction,” Ms. Slade said “and will be available soon for all who feel inspired to create an essay or work of art; performance, song, poem, photograph or film and submit it online,” she explained.
Contact Information:
Slade Digital
Oakland, CA
510) 302-8734
http://www.sladedigital.com
“What Peace Means to Me,” Unity Peace Festival Planned
"We plan to have an active social online network in 2010 to manage and present each expression of peace submitted throughout the world" said Barbara Dexter, managing director of the Unity Peace Film Project.”
A documentary film about the entire project is is planned. It will be produced by Stephanie Slade of Slade Digital and Unity Film Ministry.
“Anyone wanting be a seed or a tree for peace and join us as we collaborate and prepare for our Unity Peace Festival email us at unitypeacefestival@gmail.com or contact Stephanie Slade for more information at 510-302 8734,” Ms. Slade said.
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