Patrick Takaya Solomon’s upcoming documentary, Finding Joe, is an exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture. Finding Joe opens on September 30, 2011 in LA, with a national rollout to follow! Visit the official website to watch the trailer and for more information on the film.
Rooted in deeply personal accounts and timeless stories, FINDING JOE shows how Campbell’s work is relevant and essential in today’s world and how it provides a narrative for how to live a fully realized life-or as Campbell would simply state, how to “follow your bliss”.
The film features interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields including Deepak Chopra, Mick Fleetwood, Tony Hawk, Rashida Jones, Laird Hamilton, Robert Walter, Robin Sharma, Catherine Hardwicke, Sir Ken Robinson, Akiva Goldsman and many more.
While studying myths, and writing on the human experience, Joseph Campbell was a professor at Sarah Lawrence College for 38 years. His seminal work, “A Hero with a Thousand Faces” was published in 1949 and greatly influenced generations of artists and writers, including Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Jerry Garcia and others.
Written/Directed By: Patrick Takaya Solomon
Produced By: Kate Churchill
Distributed By: Balcony Releasing


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