Breakthrough
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Film Overview

Directed By: Storm Talifero View Official Website	Release Date: 2006-02-12 Running Time: 0:00 Content Rating: U (universal)	DVD Region: 1 - U.S., Canada, U.S. Territories Media Format: NTSC-DVD Audio Language(s): English
Genres: Health >> Alternative Health :: Health >> Diet

Synopsis

Breakthrough is a beautiful, intimate look into the life of a raw vegan family.

Breakthrough - A Raw Film Documentary
from www.thegardendiet.com
- A movie review by Jim Carey

Storm has been eating a raw vegan diet of fruits, nuts, seeds, and vegetables in their unheated state for over 30 years, and has become known among raw vegans for his body builder's physique. At 57 he is still youthful. Jinjee first started eating a raw vegan diet when she met Storm 12 years ago. Her before and after pictures show her transformation. The whole family is 100% raw vegan with no supplements or dehydrated foods.

This documentary was assembled from footage that Storm and Jinjee collected over the years. They have four raw vegan children. In the film they share the challenges that they've faced, both personally and with friends and families, and the differences that cooked vegan and raw vegan have made in their lives. They share nutrition information and information about the growth and development of their children, with taped visits to the doctor, and comparisons to CDC height and weight charts. There is a good section on raw vegans and exercise requirements.

There is impressive footage of Jinjee during a raw vegan pregnancy, exercising, and walking 5 miles a day, even as she came to term. There is footage of her taken ten days after her child was born, with Jinjee healthy, radiant, active and thin... There is an interview with Jinjee discussing her four pregnancies, both cooked vegan and raw vegan, and how the raw vegan deliveries went much smoother and faster.

For anybody raising raw vegan children, or considering doing so, I heartily recommend this film. There are enough beautiful women and hunky men in the movie to keep even the most non-raw spouse interested in the film. (Yep, weightlifters and Swedish blondes.)

-- Jim Carey
Director, www.chiDiet.com
Former Director, Creative Health Institute

Cast

Cast: The Talifero Family | bio
The Taliferos live in the National Forest of Southern California.

Crew

Director: Storm Talifero | bio
Storm has been an artist his entire life, focusing mainly on pencil drawings and oil paintings. He illustrated My Bondage and My Freedom, and the award-winning The Bridge Dancers. He now lives in seclusion in the National Forest with his family, focusing on film-making.

Bonus Features

DVD-ROM PC Weblink/ Website

Accolades

Press Reviews

TheGardenDiet.com/news | show/hide snippet
“Breakthrough” is an independent documentary film about the life of a raw-vegan family. Brought to you by The Garden Diet and produced by Storm Talifero the film brings you into the life of the Talifero family who eat diet of 100% raw organic vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts and sprouts. With four children ranging from 1 to 11 years old the film gives a view into a nature-oriented, active, healthy and creative family life. The Taliferos do “home-birth”, “home-school”, and “home-business” while making the raw food diet work in a warm family setting.

Storm has been a raw-vegan for 30 years. At 57 years of age he appears decades younger with an athletic body-builder’s physique and the lifestyle of an extreme adventurer. Jinjee has been a raw vegan on and off for 12 years and at 38 years old she continues to rejuvenate and increase her fitness level. Jinjee home-birthed her four children and the film shows her at pre-pregnancy weight and tone only 10 days after giving birth to her fourth child. Jinjee compares her two cooked-vegan pregnancies and two raw-vegan pregnancies crediting her two painless births to her raw-vegan diet at the time.

The family is shown climbing mountains, doing animations, playing music, preparing food, eating, gardening, and visiting the doctor for a check-up. Charts compare nutrients in raw food and cooked food. Storm’s 300 lb. nephew is filmed over a three month period losing 75 lbs. on the raw vegan diet. Jinjee and Storm talk about the deaths of their parents and Storm’s many family members who have died of debilitating diet-related diseases. They discuss how these losses guided them to their present dietary choices.

In an exhilarating sequence of scenes Storm’s eldest son Snow who was born raw-vegan and spent much of his life as a raw-vegan is shown climbing 7-story high Gibraltar Rock in Santa Barbara with no ropes. Scenes like this distinguish “Breakthrough” from instructional raw food videos and bring the actual effects of a raw food lifestyle into focus with a “proof is in the raw-pudding” attitude.

Independent film-makers the Taliferos are marketing their film without a distributor. “The Internet has a huge network of people interested in the raw-vegan diet, veganism, and alternative health. As we have had our website TheGardenDiet.com up for about 6 years we have a huge email list of people who subscribe to our newsletter many of whom have purchased our film on DVD” says co-producer Jinjee Talifero. “We are excited about the response to the film so far and the opportunity the Internet presents for niche film-makers to get their message out to people directly”.

The film will enjoy its premiere public screening in Los Angeles on Sunday March 12th at Mokichi Okada Art of Life Science Institute (MOA) located at 8564 Melrose Ave. kitty corner from The Bodhi Tree Bookstore at 2:30 PM. The screening is part of a free event called “A Day of Inspiration” which opens at 12:00 with a raw-vegan lunch available for purchase, followed by the Israeli film “39 Pounds of Love” which will show at 1:00. The event is coordinated by Dorit Dyke of Serenity Spaces and the Chopra Healing Center. Dorit can be reached at 310-854-2078. The Taliferos who will be present and available for questions and answers after their film also hope to arrange multiple screenings around the country. A “Breakthrough” trailer is available at http://www.BreakthroughTheDocumentary.com online where the DVD can also be bought.

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Contact:
Jinjee Talifero
www.thegardendiet.com