Out & About with Brewer & Berg
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Film Overview

Directed By: Michael Brewer Written By: Michael Brewer, Thomas Alan Berg View Official Website	Release Date: 2005-10-01 Running Time: 1:23 Content Rating: PG (Parental Guidance)	DVD Region: 1 - U.S., Canada, U.S. Territories Media Format: NTSC-DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Audio Language(s): English
Genres: Gay & Lesbian :: Travel >> Special Categories :: New Age Influences: My Dinner with André, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure starring your 2 wacky new

Synopsis

Out & About with Brewer & Berg
A Multidimensional Travelogue

is a brilliantly documented celebration of two gay men breaking through old social, political and religious paradigms to discover who they really are as powerfulmultidimensional beings. With riveting graphics, insightfulquotations and a sound track that rocks, this ground-breaking pilot for a whole new genre of "reality" TV and film follows two self-proclaimed gay gurus on a hero's quest through Switzerland and Italy. They take you with them on a multidimensional journey to Rome, the Forum and Coliseum , the Vatican , Tuscany , Pisa and Florence . Their adventure leads them through the realms of history, art, philosophy, psychology, theology and metaphysics into a totally new mythological vision, one big enough to explore, explain and celebrate the existence of gay men on Planet Earth at this pivotal point in human history.

Crew

Writer: Michael Brewer, Thomas Alan Berg
Production Company: Word+Image
Copyright: Word+Image
Director: Michael Brewer | bio
Michael Brewer, graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, founded by Walt Disney, is a multimedia artist with a 25 year career that has spanned the globe. At 19, he founded the entertainment magazine "What's Happenin'", which went on to become the largest publication of its kind in Southern California. Michael later established a freelance graphic design and illustration studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the 80s, the Bay Area was a hotbed for self-development and alternative thinking and exploration. Michael met Tom when he designed the cover for Tom's first book in 1983 and they have been best of friends ever since, sharing paths of personal and spiritual learning and growth. Michael was a regular columnist and cartoonist for local gay publications and facilitated men's groups. Michael moved to Switzerland in 1990,where he founded Word+Image a leading European provider of text, translation, graphics and multimedia. He has been active in the Men's Movement as a support group facilitator and has led cutting edge workshops high in the Swiss Alps. Michael has had numerous exhibitions of his paintings and sells his illustrations worldwide at www.images.com and Word+Image. Michael has also contributed to several anthologies on the topics of gay sexuality and spirituality. Today, Michael lives outside Zurich, Switzerland with his husband and daughter. This film was born the week Tom came to Fire Island, New York to be best man at Michael's wedding to Remo in 2001. With it, Michael has brought together his talents and experience as a filmmaker, writer, designer, illustrator, photographer, philosopher and actor and so much more. A born communicator, Michael seeks to share the knowledge and experience he has gained with others in an entertaining and uplifting format. He has realized this dream in Out & About with Brewer & Berg.
The first film Michael directed, Out & About with Brewer & Berg - A Multidimensional Travelogue was honored with a standing ovationand the Audience Choice Award at the Aloha Spirit Film Festival in Kona, Hawaii, September 2006.

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Associate Producer: Thomas Alan Berg | bio
Thomas Alan Berg , (B.A. Political Science, MA in Education) is a San Francisco based teacher who has devoted his life to a spiritual quest focused around one major cosmic question: "Who am I as a gay man and what is my place, purpose and function in a society that seems intent on telling me that I am not a valuable expression of God's creation?" To find answers, Tom has spent over thirty years in an in-depth comparative study of the great philosophical, metaphysical, theological and psychological writings of the ages. In the early sixties a series of serendipitous encounters with Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy - and Martin Luther King Jr. - guided him into public service around the world. He has taught school for thirty-five years (K-8th grades) and has worked for both the Peace Corps in South America and the Teacher Corps in inner city schools. Tom has written two books: " A Way to Survive the Epidemic, Based on the Metaphysical Teachings of the Ancient Masters" (published 1984), and "Uncle Tom's Classroom - How One Public School Teacher Awakened His Students to the Divine Super Self Within" (to be published in early 2006). He has spent the last four years researching, teaching, writing and traveling to Europe to work with Michael Brewer, his creative partner and life long friend, on this exciting film project, which he hopes will help the world wake up to the extraordinary force and function of the Gay Spirit in human and cosmic evolution!
Producer: Michael Brewer

Bonus Features

Theatrical Trailers

Accolades

Awards

Audience Choice Award

Festivals

Aloha Spirit Film Festival, Hawaii

Press Reviews

White Crane Journal | show/hide snippet
By Toby Johnson
“This is a wonderfulcontribution to the discussion of gay spirituality, a new medium for conveying important and needed insights, likely to reach people the printed word no longer reaches. Out & About with Brewer & Berg is a philosophical travelogue of Europe with two zany guys in an amazing documentary of their vision quest in search of a new mythology that includes gay and lesbian consciousness. This is a delightful adventure, innovatively filmed (with European sights I'd never seen before) with lots of Joseph Campbell's appealing wisdom. I totally concur with the provocative worldview Brewer & Berg proclaim.”

Toby Johnson – White Crane Journal, Author of “Gay Perspective, Gay Spirituality”

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Pila Chiles | show/hide snippet
This outrageously funny film is a bold and courageous look at what is no longer valid in our 'organizing myths'... while entertaining the forbidden possibility of declaring one's own divinity in a society gone mad with materialism. Hats off to these new warriors of bliss!"

Pila Chiles – author of “The Secrets & Mysteries of Hawaii - A Call to the Soul”
Chiron Rising | show/hide snippet
By Pat Colley - Editor
“I was dumbfounded. I have never seen a "travelogue" like this. It's at once hilarious and quite spiritual, leaving you emotionally and physically drained. These guys are highly educated and splendidly witty. They possess a very powerful means of getting the essence of their message across: they seem to reach out and hug their audience, sharing the love they possess for gay spirituality and life in general. I'd love to know these men and just hang out around them, absorbing all that positive, loving energy.”
Fab Magazine | show/hide snippet
Shameless Plug
Out & About with Brewer & Berg, Episode One: Search for a new mythology:

"We really are everywhere: Finding homoeroticism in the Vatican is not that difficult. However, it takes two very skillfulexplorers to uncover same-sex celebratory sarcophagi in the otherwise gruesome Hall of Death. They call it a "close encounter of the archetypal kind."
“Both Brewer and Berg were inspired back in the late '80s by Campbell's interviews with Bill Moyers (PBS's "The Power of Myth") in which he presented that kind of all-inclusive, Jungian vision of human religious consciousness. From Campbell, they learned that the spiritual life is a "hero's journey," and so one of the ways of experiencing it, investigating it, and communicating it is through the journey.”

Drew Rowsome – Fab Magazine