He also maintains a residence in New York City. He has lived in the USA, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, India, and now resides in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, since 2006. Over the next few years, he was able to create a successful international distributorship and marketing company for Herbalife Nutrition (1988-present) and has become one of its top 50 independent distributors in the world as a Chairman’s Club member. In 1988 Amertat made the film Elliott Porter’s World which brought him his second Cine Golden Eagle award.Īfter twenty years of filmmaking Amertat was forced to search for other ways to support his family and went into “retirement” from his film activities. He took on the name Amertat, which was given to him by one of his spiritual guides, Pir Vilayat Khan, while making the film. Its first showing was at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco in 1974 and later had its New York premiere at the Whitney Museum in New York City, in the New American Filmmakers series, where it became the most viewed film in the history of the series.
explores the culture of modern spirituality through the rise of Kundalini yoga in the West from its origins with Yogi Bhajan in the. He received a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA Film School in1973 for his direction of Sunseed. Firelight Media Documentary Lab Names Its 2021 Fellows. In 1969 he started working on a feature documentary, Sunseed. Now (1968) which received a Cine Golden Eagle award for direction. There he made several films including A.C.T. He entered the Masters Film program at UCLA in 1965 but moved to San Francisco the next year during the "summer of love." There he began a lifelong study of meditation, yoga, mystic arts, Sufism, and the esoteric traditions of the world’s religions, all while working in the top documentary film unit in the USA at KQED Public Television.
Her death this summer at the age of 41 brought a sudden end. While there, his photo art was exhibited at the Davidson Art Gallery, and he made his first film as part of its film studies program. HBO Max has ordered the four-part limited documentary series, BREATH OF FIRE from Vanity Fair Studios and SecondNature, which builds on a recent exclusive feature from Vanity Fair about Guru Jagat, a star of the Kundalini yoga practice and controversial founder of the RA MA Institute. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1965. Frederick began his career in visual media at 15 as photo instructor at a summer camp and then photo editor and photographer in high school. Amertat Cohn (born Fredrick Jack Cohn, October 31, 1943, Denver, Colorado) is an award-winning American filmmaker, a businessman, a spiritual leader, and producer-director of Sunseed The Journey. I made a very quick post about kundalini yoga as a method of transmutation yesterday, and have decided to delete it.