— Alena Goldstein

Alena Goldstein August 8, 2019

Utopia Park

Producer

Disturbed by strange phenomena he hears in the air and feels in the earth, an electrician turned amateur scientist sets out to determine if he’s encountering portentous early signs of ecological collapse — Air date TBA

Educating Girls to live in accord with Dharma

Director/Producer

Alena traveled to Thailand in 2017, visiting The Dhammajarinee Witthaya School for girls, which is a free Buddhist boarding school, serving orphaned, impoverished, and other disadvantaged girls who would otherwise have no opportunity for a quality education.

While there she was enlisted by the David Lynch Foundation to help create a film showcasing how this school has transformed the lives of these young girls.

Enlivening the Foundation of Success and Leadership

Assistant Director

While traveling in Bali, Indonesia Alena worked on a short film with Adam Pressmen the Director of Media Production and Development at the David Lynch Foundation they created a video to showcase the benefits the Transcendental Meditation technique had in the lives of students at the Bali Mandara boarding school for underprivileged children.

Mothers of Uganda

Director

Alena documented a research study about women's empowerment. She filmed the lives of woman living in poverty in the heart of Kampala, Uganda. These women were single, illiterate mothers struggling to make ends meet. She captured the transformations that occurred after the introduction of the Transcendental Meditation technique.

Kennedy Hill

Producer

A short film set in the late 1930s, Kennedy Hill, follows 17 year-old Grace who finds out she’s adopted on the eve of her big senior year dance with boyfriend, Tuffy. In search of her birth family she journeys away from home to discover who her true family is.

Land of Nothing

Assistant Director

Land of Nothing is a surrealist journey of self-discovery. A heartbroken poet stumbles into a mysterious world of pageantry and disguises. To escape and recover his lover, he must become one with this dreamland.

Undocumented Freedom

Assistant Director

Alena worked with Laura Bustillos and a team to capture the challenges one faces when dealing with being an undocumented immigrant in the U.S. Undocumented Freedom tells this story through one young mans eyes.

Dream Logic

Production Assistant

A short, experimental art Sci-fi film Directed by Rodolfo ‘Wox’ Rincones.