Stepping Toward the Lion

John Lyden wants to convey the power of youth interfaith storytelling with his film "Stepping Toward the Lion." Here's the trailer for this film: John Lyden, a 20 year old filmmaker, was one of our C@W participants. He is now at the College of St. Rose in Albany, studying film. John worked tirelessly to make this film, with vision and a passion to portray the community-building and healing force that is C@W. A number of John's fellow C@W interns assisted in various ways, as have staff members. John calls the film "Stepping Toward the Lion; Finding My Story", which refers to the journey made, and the story told, by another of our former storytellers, Alaudeen Umar.
This film won the Best Student Film award at the 2014 Peace on Earth Film Festival in Chicago, March 2014.
Click here for an interview with John after he received this award.
John Lyden and Marni Gillard were recently on TV discussing this film and its upcoming showing in the GE Theatre at Proctors in Schenectady on Sunday, April 6.

To finish this film, a Kickstarter project was created in December 2012. 140 people generously contributed a total of $8,542. John Lyden and Children at the Well would like to publically acknowledge the support of the following:

Abigail De La Paz Adam Hoffman Alan Tabor Ann Shapiro Audrey Seidman Aviva Rossman Barbara Dworkin Barbara Palumbo Beatrice Rohrmeier Bethany Thompson Bonnie Beard Caffe Lena Caroline Leising Carolyn Sanford CeCe H Christine Fowler Cindy Rivka Marshall

Daniel Ornstein Dennis Wong Diane Marcil Elizabeth Cassidy Ellen Ratmeyer Eric Bryant Erica Werfel Eshu Bumpus Gail Rosen Gauri Mehta Gregg Millett Hope Lewis Irene Nardelli Islah Umar Jane Ainslie Janice M. Fontanella Janie Schwab

Jennifer Goodall Jo Radner Joan Horgan Joanne Piazzi Joanne Schnee Joe Doolittle Judith Black Karen Chace Karin Hensley Kate Dudding Kate Hannon Kathleen K. Duff Kathleen Mason Ken Scarpa Kevin Cordi Lauretta Phillips Laurie Andrews-Lester

Leo S. Levy Linda Conte Linda Russell Lisa Escobar Jones Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi Lynn Ruehlmann Madelyn S. Collins Marcia Dudden Margaret French Margaret Mitchell Marguerite A. Gillard Marilyn McPhie Marilyn Michaels Mario Rups Mark K. Dudding Mark Kadas Mary and Leo Wong

Mary Grace Ketner Mary O'Keeffe Melissa MacKinnon Michael J. Camoin Mike D'Attilio Miranda Rand Muriel W. Horowitz Nancy M. Payne Nathaniel Rounds Olivia Wong Patrick Kildoyle Paul Rosenberg Pete and Dorothy Gray Peter Ashley Preeti Bavdekar Priscilla Fairbank Robert Weber

Rowyn Golde Ryan Bouck Sandor Schuman Sharon Carter Sharon Wood Sheri Bauer-Mayorga Siri Allison Suman Srivastava Susan Rounds Susan Spivack Tina Johnston Vaidehi Agashe Vernon Cox Vicki S. Kelsey Will Wheeler William Rainbolt Zachary Pearson