AMERICAN UBUNTU - a healing story for our times
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Lenore Norrgard
Filmmaker


Photos by Susan Scott and Amanda Kovattana.
AMERICAN UBUNTU is the brainchild of Lenore Norrgard, a trilingual film artist whose career in media spans radio, international photojournalism, writing, and narrative film. The story grows out of her decades as a leading social activist and healer, and is her response to the tragedies of 9/11 and their aftermath. Lenore is the founder of New Legacy Films.
AMERICAN UBUNTU was awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship, and was a finalist in the Independent Film Project's Phosphate competition and the Cynosure competition.
Lenore also wrote, directed and produced AMERICAN UBUNTU: The Backstory, 1970s, at the Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland.
She is the writer, director, producer and editor of the feature dramedy, GETTING TO SEX.

Debbie Brubaker
Line Producer

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Debbie is passionate about producing successful independent films. She brings an accomplished track record, with credits for popular indie movies, including DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL and LA MISSION.
Debbie has line producer and unit production manager credits for dozens of productions, including BLUE JASMINE, the ongoing TV show 13 REASONS WHY, and the recent mini-series WHEN WE RISE.
Debbie is known for her no-nonsense expertise in creating lean, professional production budgets, and for bringing projects in on time, under budget, and with high production values that lead to strong distribution outcomes.

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New Legacy Films, LLC believes that We are the stories we tell.
We aim to affect how the future unfolds, by offering paradigm-shifting stories to the popular imagination.
In producing AMERICAN UBUNTU, we apply the popular Zulu expression, Because we are, I am, to post-9/11 America, with the aim of reducing our polarizations.
New Legacy Films, LLC receives financial investments from those who wish to participate financially in realizing our vision.

Community Supporters


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Circle of the Living Earth-AIWP is AMERICAN UBUNTU's fiscal sponsor -- a nonprofit that receives and administers donations and grants on behalf of our project.
For example, Circle of the Living Earth received, processed and disbursed funds received through our Kickstarter campaign, which made the pledges from all backers tax-deductible.

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Nearly 300 people backed AMERICAN UBUNTU through our Kickstarter campaign:
Rupert Kinnard, Kinley Manor Coach House
Scott Stapley
Peter Gerhard 
Michelle Murrain 
Lucy Geever 

Charlotte Watson Sherman 
Leslie Gregory, Right to Health
Emily Levy
Sandra Ingerman
Suzanne Savage
Margo Mahan
Cara A Mulheron
Jean Marie Riquelme 
Pat Luther
Stephen Pollaine 

Eileen Pardini
Sarah Warman, Freedom To Be You
Tamara Bearheart West
Carol Dale Duby 
Tachelle Shamash Wilkes
Susan Scott 
Marjorie Scheer & Maximino Vargas,
White Hat Books LLC
Jacke Schroeder, Corporate Shaman
Richard Engle & Paula Horowitz
John Brennan
Bill Bowen

Patricia Chupa, Hypatia-in-the-Woods
Mary Scott
George Kao
Margaret Riordan
Linda Lander,
New Stream Media
Christina Pratt, Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing
Jamie Partridge
Terri Ellen Pease +1
Renna Shesso
Langston Kahn
Jenny Brav
Shere Coleman
Maja Daniels
Alma Karaba
Chris Moore-Backman
Caroline Sherman & Deborah Stanfill
Rich

Scott Brazieal
Karen Harding
Kory Harding 
Macceo Pettis
Rose Madrone,
Connectivity Project
Mary Joyce Jonlick
Robin Cash
Richard Hammerschlag
Gregg Humphrey
Shimi Elkon
John Moriarty
Thom Benzaquen
Carolyn Bishop 
Jay Pennington
Anne Cadenasso
Diane tetrault
Jody Rutherford
Holly
David Hutchinson
Elana Smith
Catherine Smith
Bubba St. James
Rayda Vega
Julie Bradshaw

Ali Ippolito
Ellen Sturtz
Deborah Fugate +1
Renate Grundstrom
Ishtar Beck
Deborah Gavel,
A Peace Prayer
Jane Carr
Heather Carver
Drew Adams
Jessica
Suellen Primost,
Cellist & Arts Consultant
Karyn Chalice Armstrong, Harmonic Visions
Michele Anderson
Adam Sherburne
Susan Burke
Judith Mowry
Mike Welch
Richard Baynton,
Breitenbush Hot Springs
David Holbert
Robby Williamson
Patricia Welch
Tyehimba Peyton
Anne O'Leary
Azima Lila Forest
Laura Schepps
Giuseppe Borsalino
Helen Lawless
Shary Crocker
Sherwood King
Jan Engels-Smith,
LightSong School of Shamanic Studies
Joanne
Pramila Kumari
Katherine Howells
Jeri Anne Hampton
Marty Nelson
Ruth Greenberg
Lydia Ridyard
Steven Pertes
Slim Russell
Savander Parker
Lynda Skeen
Jane E Granskog,
Society of Shamanic Practitioners
Joanna Harcourt-Smith
Elizabeth Pierson
Eduardo Muñoz
Colleen O'Rourke
Donna Ryall
Jonathan Horwitz,
Scandinavian Center for Shamanic Studies
Cliff Cotterill
Jan Aksel Harder Klitgaard
Patricia Fares OMalley
Georgia P. Eagles
Karma Smart
Cheryl Winegar
Martine Joseph,
MovieSpirit
Darren de Leon
Tim O'Dea
Mariana Thorn
Jess
Shenoah Taylor,
Shamanic Voices
Martha Engelbert
Pete Brown
Lisa Brazieal
Desiree Currie-Rabhansl

Sushmita Mukherjee
Samsarah Morgan
Joanne B.
Sam Yamauchi

Milt Markewitz, Earth and Spirit Council
Sharanagati Sharon Burch,
The Shaman's Map
April Berger
Eleni Livitsanos
Connie Tyler,
Deep Hum Productions
Barbara Graham
Paula Starr
Melanie McCloskey
Donna Roy, Dreamlines, PC
Rhea Wolf
Neta Marlin
Katey Simetra
Ann Uhrich
Patricia Robertson
Ann Manly
Pat Coleman
Herbert Huy
Sarah
Howard Goldstein
Claude Poncelet
James Patrick Malone
Hannah Quinn D.O.M.,
HomeJourney Medicine™
Dr. Terryl Ross
M. Joy Young, LCSW
Dianne Riley
Tibor Hetei
Tom Lange
Donna Marie Scheifler
Pat Brockett
Andrea Renee Hall
Leslie Harris

Dr. Lauri J. Shainsky, LightSong School of Shamanic Studies
James Cutropia
Leslie Conton
P. Anna Johnson
Rebecca LaSalle
Nancy & Dan Loeffler
Jenny Siegel
Ruth King
Irma Jennings
John Galazin
John Knowles
Janet Cadmus
Ignacio Valero
jenny levison
Stephanie Wright Turner
Connie Eiland
Elaine Axelrod
Ken & Jane Gravel
Indigo Ocean
Milos Savic,
Meditative Moments
Judy Erlandson
Sarah McCulloch
Kathleen King
Rick Minnich,
RickFilms
Beth Welton-Miller
Jennifer Jackson
Nicole Franklin
Gia Combs-Ramirez
Amanda Kovattana,
Don't Agonize, Organize!
Jennifer Mullan-Gonzalez 
Michael Leal,
The Vessel Comic
Wayne Yoakam
Juan Lopez
Burt Culver
Shari Bandes
Charlie Phillips
Michele Lessirard,
Shared Journeys
Kristan Knapp
Debra Varner
Evelyn Rysdyk
Karen Hefner,
Igniting Spirit
Francesca Oldani
Susan Gibbs
Karen Murphy
Jane Goldsmith
Denise Guerringue,
DeniseTheCoach
Saadiah Freeman
Julia Perlman
Wendy Wywrot
Robert Chastain
Jacob Thomas
Tom Cowan
Sara CA Rafter
Pearl Shelly Pedersen
Bec Chalkley
Yonina Groot

Felix Benjamin McManus, Yale University
Teresa DeGarmo
Sharon Elliott
Izetta Smith
Ulrike Spitzer,
Kaleidoscope Healing
Tonya Bryant "Yellow Rose"
Todd Norrgard
Jean Bosch
Ruth Bailey
Sylvia Breau
Selene Aswell
Julie Moore
Rebecca Clemons
Laura Alves
Cheryl Wideman
Deborah Sharpe
Whitney Merchant
Patricia Sullivan
Jeanette Hieter
Mikk Sarv
Barbara Solomon,
Bamboo Road
Erik Ian Walker
Cymbelene Nardo
Cat J. Zavis
Lisa Woods
Nicholas Taplin
Alice Ruffel
Kat137
Jacqueline Propps
Vivian Gatton
Reisa Jaffe
Brenda Salgado
MarySue Foster
Elizabeth Morrison
Justine Zang
Leslie Ferriel
Andrei Armeanu
Caroline W. Casey,
Coyote Network News
Helle Helene Schmidt
Keni Fine
Samantha Alvarez
Nanlouise Wolfe & Stephen Zunes
George and Holly Stone
Jari Latvala


Post-Kickstarter Contributors

Sujata Subramanian
Rachel Tolmachoff
Lumini Merced
Beverly Branaman


Ubuntu is a popular Zulu expression that means, Because we are, I am.
In AMERICAN UBUNTU, we apply this perspective to post-9/11 USA.



Web site @ 2017 Lenore Norrgard

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