G.A.T.E. – A New Era for Transformational Entertainment?

Last night I attended the launch event at Fox studios for a new organization called GATE (The Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment) with my friend Garry Shandling. It was an amazing collection of creators and producers of conscious entertainment (500 in attendance) united to discuss new ways to “Transform the World by Transforming Media and Entertainment”. It was truly inspiring to see the Hollywood community coming together to look at ways we can direct the unmatched reach and power of the media machine toward a higher cause. Among the speakers and performers were Jim Carrey, Melissa Etheridge, Eckhart Tolle, Donovan, William Arntz (Director of “What the Bleep Do We Know!?”), Scott Carlin (President, HBO TV Distribution), John Raatz (GATE Founder) and many more. Here is a beautiful short film about Gratitude that was part of the evening as well as the music video of the song Melissa performed live (her Oscar-winning theme for Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth”. As Sandra Hay said: we have reached a place in time, with the talent and the technology, where if we can imagine it – we can make it happen.