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Out of the Blue
(Documentary, 2010, running time: 52 minutes)
Ray Schmitt began a two-year spiritual journey with his camera in September 2007 after suddenly losing his wife and film partner Judy Lee. He couldn't imagine her "not being." Where did she go? She had to exist in some spiritual or energy form otherwise he would have been more devastated by the loss. He set out to re-examine, or affirm, his belief system. Using Ken Burn's film "The Brooklyn Bridge" as a metaphor, Schmitt builds a bridge to the metaphysical world. First traveling to Mexico he has many synchronistic encounters along the way including meeting widows who share their own personal stories. Schmitt explores whether things can exist in different forms or dimensions, how the universe connects with us and us to the universe, and how inspirational thoughts or messages can seemingly come to us "Out of the Blue." But one thing Schmitt wasn't prepared for was a revelation that occurred just as he was completing his film.
Best Feature Documentary, West Virginia Filmmakers Film Festival, 2010
Best Healing Film, Akasha Metaphysical Film Festival, Carmel, CA, 2011
Screened at AWAKEN Spiritual Film Festival, Morristown, NJ, 2011
Screened at Myrtle Beach International Film Festival, 2011
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Out of the Blue
(Documentary, 2010, running time: 52 minutes)
Ray Schmitt began a two-year spiritual journey with his camera in September 2007 after suddenly losing his wife and film partner Judy Lee. He couldn't imagine her "not being." Where did she go? She had to exist in some spiritual or energy form otherwise he would have been more devastated by the loss. He set out to re-examine, or affirm, his belief system. Using Ken Burn's film "The Brooklyn Bridge" as a metaphor, Schmitt builds a bridge to the metaphysical world. First traveling to Mexico he has many synchronistic encounters along the way including meeting widows who share their own personal stories. Schmitt explores whether things can exist in different forms or dimensions, how the universe connects with us and us to the universe, and how inspirational thoughts or messages can seemingly come to us "Out of the Blue." But one thing Schmitt wasn't prepared for was a revelation that occurred just as he was completing his film.
Best Feature Documentary, West Virginia Filmmakers Film Festival, 2010
Best Healing Film, Akasha Metaphysical Film Festival, Carmel, CA, 2011
Screened at AWAKEN Spiritual Film Festival, Morristown, NJ, 2011
Screened at Myrtle Beach International Film Festival, 2011
realearthproductions.com





![6 Months
6 Months
(Documentary, 2007, running time: 54 minutes)
Filmmaker Ray Schmitt has a genetic disorder called Marfan Syndrome which affects his aorta. This film explores his own life as he goes about making films on others. In six months he will find out if he needs open heart surgery to correct this condition—surgery which he is afraid could alter his personality.
[Ray and Judy] Schmitt have created a rare cinematic masterpiece that I will never forget. . . . they finally turn the camera on themselves. The result is a self-portrait of their lives 360 degrees. . . . Hopefully millions of people will get to see this film on PBSs P.O.V. or some other national broadcast.
—Steve Fesenmaier, Film Reviewer.
Screened at the South Charleston Museum, Jan. 2009
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