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About HummingbirdFilms

HummingbirdFilms LLC is a leading-edge film and video production company located in the Hudson Valley of New York State. Owned and operated by award-winning independent filmmaker John Feldman, the company is currently focusing its efforts on documentaries in the arts and sciences.

This website contains information about John Feldman’s current productions as well as his complete portfolio of critically acclaimed and award-winning independent feature, educational, documentary and short films from 1968 to the present. On the portfolio page are links to watch many of them.

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The Gaia Perspective

Changing our worldviews with Fritjof Capra and his mentors
(Working Title)

This feature-length documentary turns to Fritjof Capra and his colleagues and mentors in a quest to uncover the cornerstones of a society that allows people to coexist in harmony with each other and with the natural world.

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Why Laugh

Speaking truth to power with clowns, masks, puppets, and banana peels
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Remembering Adam Sacks

Remembering Adam Sacks

On Saturday, March 14, 2026, I attended a memorial for Adam Sacks in Cambridge, MA.  It was entitled “Celebration of Life.” Adam died on February 1, 2026.  Adam Sacks was a most important mentor to me during the entire conception, production, and release...

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A Visit to Utah to interview Margaret Wheatley

A Visit to Utah to interview Margaret Wheatley

I am moving ahead energetically with the script for The Gaia Perspective the third in my Symbiosis Trilogy behind Symbiotic Earth and Regenerating Life. I am also interviewing a few more people. On November 5th, I had a fabulous interview...

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Documentary Works in Progress

Documentary Works in Progress

John is working on two new films – one on Fritjof Capra and the systems view of life (The Gaia Perspective) and the other on comedy, clowning, and why we laugh.

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New on Youtube

How to Translate the Principles of Traditional Diets into Nutritious, Delicious Meals (1 hour 33 minutes) As president of the Weaton A. Price Foundation, Sally Fallon Morell has been on the forefront of mindful eating for more than twenty years. Her powerful book Nourishing Traditions was a call to arms for a dietary revolution. Her book Nourishing Fats supports and expands upon the growing scientific consensus that eating a wide range of good fats is the key to optimum health. On June 29, 2019, Sally Fallon Morell gave a day long workshop at Churchtown Dairy in Hudson NY entitled: Principles of Traditional Diets. It included three important presentations: Traditional Diets, All About Cheese, and The Oiling of America. These three presentations were recorded by Hummingbird Films and are available here.
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Nutritious Meals: a presentation by Sally Fallon Morell

Cheesemaking at P. A. Bowen Farmstead (and why you should eat cheese!) a presentation at Churchtown Dairy by Sally Fallon Morell (42 minutes) As president of the Weaton A. Price Foundation, Sally Fallon Morell has been on the forefront of mindful eating for more than twenty years. Her powerful book Nourishing Traditions was a call to arms for a dietary revolution. Her book Nourishing Fats supports and expands upon the growing scientific consensus that eating a wide range of good fats is the key to optimum health. On June 29, 2019, Sally Fallon Morell gave a day long workshop at Churchtown Dairy in Hudson NY entitled: Principles of Traditional Diets. It included three important presentations: Traditional Diets, All About Cheese, and The Oiling of America. These three presentations were recorded by Hummingbird Films and are available here.
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Cheesemaking at P. A. Bowen Farmstead (and why you should eat cheese!) by Sally Fallon Morell

The Oiling of America (1 hour 38 minutes). In this presentation, Sally Fallon Morell explains why animal fats are vital for fighting infertility and inflammation, improving mood, and relieving chronic disease and allergies. As president of the Weaton A. Price Foundation, Sally Fallon Morell has been on the forefront of mindful eating for more than twenty years. Her powerful book Nourishing Traditions was a call to arms for a dietary revolution. Her book Nourishing Fats supports and expands upon the growing scientific consensus that eating a wide range of good fats is the key to optimum health. On June 29, 2019, Sally Fallon Morell gave a day long workshop at Churchtown Dairy in Hudson NY entitled: Principles of Traditional Diets. It included three important presentations: Traditional Diets, All About Cheese, and The Oiling of America. These three presentations were recorded by Hummingbird Films and are available here.
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The Oiling of America: a presentation by Sally Fallon Morell

In 2020, after I had begun interviews for my documentary about Fritjof Capra and his mentors, COVID abruptly shut down all travel. Not to be deterred, we turned to Zoom in order to continue working on the film. In December 2020, with the help of Alberto Rizzo in Argentina and Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha in Brazil, we videotaped a Zoom conversation between Brother David Steindl-Rast in Argentina, Fritjof Capra in California and myself in upstate New York. Brother David is a renowned scholar and Benedictine monk. He and Fritjof co-authored Belonging to the Universe (winner of the 1992 American Book Award), a dialogue on new paradigm thinking in science and theology. He was 94 when we recorded his conversation with Fritjof, and he impressed me with his warmth and his loving and enthusiastic manner. During our conversation, Brother David noted that at the core of all religions he found the same thing that physicists confronted in quantum physics: an encounter with mystery. --- Learn more about my new documentary, Fritjof Capra: Changing our worldviews with Fritjof Capra and his mentors (working title): https://hummingbirdfilms.com/gaiaperspective Donate to support film production: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/global-film-network-inc/the-gaia-perspective-rethinking-life-love-and-human-folly-with-fritjof-capra-and-his-mentors
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Encounter with Mystery | The Gaia Perspective

The Psyche of Nature (40 sec) Stephan Harding: We need to relate with something bigger than ourselves. Our ego, this little sense of self I've got now, it can feel so isolated and so alone. I mean, so many of us do in Western culture. And depressed, and anxious. It's spreading. More and more people are feeling it, because Western culture cuts you off from a sense of being connected to something larger than the ego, something larger than yourself, which is the psyche of nature, which is the Psyche. --- Learn more about Stephan Harding in our new film, The Gaia Perspective: Changing our worldviews with Fritjof Capra and his mentors (working title). The world is experiencing increasing violence and societal breakdown. How can we respond? This feature-length documentary turns to scientist and author Fritjof Capra and his colleagues and mentors – each a maverick thinker in their field — in a quest to uncover the cornerstones of a society that allows people to coexist in harmony with each other and with the natural world. Donate today to support the production of the film: https://hummingbirdfilms.com/gaiaperspective We are excited to announce that we have received an offer from a generous donor to double every contribution made through the end of October up to a maximum of $10,000. This is the perfect time to make a donation so we can get to work completing the production of The Gaia Perspective!
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The Psyche of Nature - The Gaia Perspective

Stephan Harding: Western culture is not wise. It's full of cleverness, it's very clever. We're very clever at making cameras and airplanes and all sorts of things. very clever, but we're very unwise. I mean, the evidence is climate change and biodiversity loss and the destruction of the planet and the destruction of traditional peoples and their languages and their cultures. I mean, a wise culture would never behave like that towards its own body, the Earth, or towards its own peoples. -- Stephan Harding is one of the Amazing thinkers to be featured in the new documentary, The Gaia Perspective: Changing our Worldviews with Fritjof Capra and his mentors (working title.) In order to complete the film, we need your help - Donate today: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/... Learn more about the Gaia Perspective at Hummingbirdfilms.com/gaiaperspective #StephanHarding #thegaiaperspective #gaia
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Clever not Wise - The Gaia Perspective

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