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The Letter Men from Andy Vallentine on Vimeo.

Official Selection: Tribeca Film Festival, Outfest, The American Pavilion at Cannes, Social World Film Festival: Winner Best International Short Film, Winner Best Director, Winner Best Editing, Walla Walla Movie Crush, Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival 2022, Out in Film SHINE Fort Lauderdale, Out on Film Atlanta, Paris Film Festival 2022: Winner Best International Short, ME Film Festival, World of Film International Glasgow, Pittsburgh Shorts, East Lansing Film Festival, ImageOut: Rochester LGBT Film Festival, Indianapolis LGBTQ Festival, Out Film CT Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival.

Log-line: Based on the largest collection of queer love letters from WWII, The Letter Men is a window into the untold true story of two gay men desperately in love but torn apart by war.

BBC Article about the love letters: bbc.com/news/uk-england-38932955

Directed By: Andy Vallentine Written By: Danny & Andy Vallentine Producer By: Cameron Hutchison, Siddharth Ganji, Mike Diaz, Matthew Postlethwaite, Garrett Clayton Executive Producers: Mark & Harriet Hignett

Director of Photography: Oren Soffer Editor: Daniel Riser Production Designer: Nikki Reifler Visual Effects Superviso: Kris Sundberg Costume Designer: Brittany Kay Hair & Makeup: Monique Paredes Hair & Makeup: Edder Sandoval Color Provided by: Kath Raisch & Company 3 Sound Designer: Eric Crepeau

Gilbert Bradley: Garrett Clayton Gordon Bowsher: Matthew Postlethwaite Nellie MacDonald: Starlene Beran Geof MacDonald: Corey Olenick Miriam Mylne: Nami Matsushita Sarah: Ciara Noel Oliver: George Todd McLachlan Hugh: Safi Jafri Harry: Pierce Allison Phil: Blyss Ezell Joseph: Ander Errandonea John: Nehal Banik Charlie: Daniel Riser Ian: Cedric Botelho Thomas: Arthur Yemchyk Jack: Danny Vallentine Francis: Jake Mager Jake: Callum Macdonald

Special Effects Supervisor: Neil Smith 1st Assistant Director: Gina Yull Production Coordinator: Katie Schmidt Additional Casting: Cedric Botelho 1st AC: Carolina Rodriguez 1st AC: Tamara Santos 2nd AC: George Arevalo 2nd AC: Eric Honghul Luo Gaffter: Dessie Coale Key Grip: Sergio Nava

Best Boy Grip: Spendser Adelstein Best Boy Electric: James King Dolly Grip: Jon Taylor Art Director: Brendan O'Connor Art Director: Jack Massura Art Assistant: Mateo Deangelo Covid Compliance Officer: Stuart Heinlein Sound Mixer: Alex Goens Sound Mixer: Nico Pierce Additional Visual Effects: Ryan Sundberg FSO: Michael Delgado Production Assistant: Alyssa Ashby Production Assistant: Kerstin Kelley

Careers, Life, and Yale Thursday Show: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible from Yale Alumni on Vimeo.

Charles Eisenstein ’89: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Charles Eisenstein ’89 is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. He graduated from Yale with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, but he says that his “development of reason and intellect brought me no closer to any truth that I really cared about.” As Yalies, we know that we have a mission to make the world a better place. In this virtual event, we’ll talk with Charles about coming to that from a place of authenticity and feeling and why we may not want to return to “normal” post-pandemic.

After Yale, he went to Taiwan for nine years, learned Mandarin Chinese, and worked as a translator, at the same time educating himself in Eastern spiritual traditions. Returning to the States, he held short term positions as a construction worker, college instructor, and yoga teacher, but spent most of his time as a stay-at-home dad. During this period into his 30s, he found his professional life increasingly intolerable. Asking himself “What is the origin of the wrongness in the world?” he spent the next four writing The Ascent of Humanity, which initiated a re-ordering of his own world. He would go on to author Sacred Economics, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, and Climate — A New Story, as well as numerous essays.

Variations on the Time-lapse from Robert S Tate on Vimeo.