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Does money make you happy? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the midst of a happiness revolution? HAPPY, the latest award-winning film from Academy Award® nominated director, Roko Belic (Genghis Blues) and Executive Producer, Tom Shadyac (Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty, I AM), takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy. Combining real life stories of people from around the world and powerful interviews with the leading scientists in happiness research, HAPPY explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion. HAPPY features ins from experts in the field of positive psychology including Ed Diener, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Richard Davidson, Daniel Gilbert, Nic Marks, Gregory Berns, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, P. Read Montague, and Tim Kasser and is narrated by Marci Shimoff, best selling author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman s Soul. EXTRAS INCLUDE: Over 30 minutes of Bonus Features: Extra Scenes, Q&A with Director Roko Belic, Interview with Executive Producer Tom Shadyac, Behind the Scenes Photos, and Trailers 9 Subtitles: French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, English English Closed Captioning for the hearing impaired Director's Commentary AWARDS: Best Documentary - Maui Film Festival Grand Jury Prize - Amsterdam Film Festival Most Inspirational Documentary - DocMiami International Film Festival Audience Choice Award - Mendocino Film Festival Best Documentary - Rincon International Film Festival People's Choice Award - staff ain Film Festival Best Documentary - Mexico International Film Festival Audience Choice, Student's Choice Awards - ainfilm in Telluride Audience Choice Award - Arizona International Film Festival Best Feature Film - Costa Rica International Film Festival Review ------ I Love This Movie! ----Ellen Degeneres - The Ellen Degeneres Show The ultimate movie about human beings at their best! ----Lindsay Doran - Producer (Sense and Sensibility and Stranger Than Fiction) I highly recommend HAPPY; you'll be giving yourself a gift of pure magic. ----Marilyn Schlitz - CEO, Institute of Noetic Sciences P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Director ------------------ Roko Belic's directorial debut, Genghis Blues (1999), won the Sundance Audience Award and was nominated for an Academy Award® for best documentary feature. Belic recently directed the 44-minute documentary Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious, which was released on the Inception Blu-Ray. For his current project HAPPY, Belic teamed up with Hollywood heavyweight Tom Shadyac, who executive produced, to direct the feature documentary. HAPPY combines powerful human stories from around the world with cutting edge science to give us a deeper understanding of our most valued emotion. See more ( javascript:void(0) )