Creative Chakra Film Festival www.creativechakra.com
ALL WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON ~ this is an international film festival so we will be announcing date as the winners are still being voted on for 2026.

Where Conscious Cinema Ignites Real-World Change ~ for a limited time only alumni of Creative Chakra and students can submit your film for free. Ask for a waiver.

The Creative Chakra Film Festival invites you to an intimate gathering in Los Angeles, showcasing films that heal, inspire, and transform—set within a serene, retreat-style environment designed to awaken the senses. This is more than a film festival. It’s an immersive journey.

Films include all winning categories narrative, action, comedy films, animation, documentary, music videos, and more.....

🎥 The Offical Selection~ Line Up of Films
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🎥 The Official Selection~ Line Up of Film Trailers
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxBUdnrXzWr-B0wrvCMBOghLMREoSpLuW
Animation~ Films~ Shorts~ Documentaries~ Music Videos

An Intimate Retreat for Transformational Cinema
Cinema • Consciousness • Transformation ~ Experience ~ Community ~ Culture

A curated cultural event. A festival for conscious storytelling and meaningful films in all genres. A transformational Film Experience in the Encino Hills of Los Angeles. Starting on Mothers Day 2026 for a filmmaker Meet and Greet. Filmmakers please RSVP.

The Chakra Film Festival is an immersive four-day activation where cinema meets healing arts, celebrating transformational storytelling through film, ritual, and community.

Day & Eve Screenings

Panels on healing through film

Actors discussing mental health

Filmmakers exploring spirituality

Documentaries on consciousness

The Creative Chakra Film Festival is not just a film event...........its a spa and yoga nature immersive private retreat- ├── www.creativechakra.com ~ 25yrs of Creative Chakra Spa integrative medicine and holistic health and fitness.

It is a platform for powerful storytelling that uplifts culture, elevates health, and inspires human potential — across every genre of entertainment.

In a time when the world feels divided, anxious, and overwhelmed, we believe stories matter more than ever.

We champion films that:

Empower positive lifestyles

Explore physical, emotional, and spiritual health

Bridge science and consciousness

Inspire courage, innovation, and compassion

Entertain while awakening

From comedy (because laughter heals) to documentary, horror, narrative features, music films, and experimental works — we celebrate entertainment that expands awareness.

This is cinema with purpose.

A Proven Legacy of Breakthrough Moments

Creative Chakra has long been a gathering place for visionary thinkers, filmmakers, and holistic leaders.

The groundbreaking film The Secret was first screened in the United States at Creative Chakra — followed by an intimate Q&A with the filmmakers. Before it became a global phenomenon, the idea of manifestation and quantum consciousness was shared here.

That’s what we do.

We recognize transformative ideas early — and give them a platform.

In our early years, Creative Chakra partnered with Learning Annex to create a holistic clearing house for authors, filmmakers, and yoga leaders. Seminars, screenings, music, yoga, healing arts — all converged in one powerful space.

The Holistic Chamber of Commerce began here.
Major conscious events and green festivals were programmed at our location.
Filmmakers, public figures, and visionaries gathered here.

For over four years as a live festival — and continuing today — we have been raising the vibration through film, music, wellness, and immersive experience.

More Than a Festival — A Movement

Creative Chakra is rooted in our flagship holistic retreat in the Santa Monica Mountains of Encino, California — where integrative medicine meets holistic healing in a nature-immersed setting.

This environment is intentional.

Because the films we show are not meant to be consumed passively.
They are meant to activate something within you.

We create a safe, inspired space where filmmakers can bring forward bold ideas about:

Health innovation

Conscious living

Environmental responsibility

Mental wellness

Spiritual science

Cultural healing

We believe storytelling can shift belief systems — and belief systems shape the world.

The Chakra Film Festival is a uplifting lifestyle brand, featuring spiritual cinema & a online Chakra Channel.

Raising the vibration for 4 years as a live film festival with film and music and yoga, also a creative chakra healing spa and chakra aromatherapy. Where integrative Medicine meets holistic while the environment and skills and intent is for healing, in a vacation like setting, a nature immersion.

Creative Chakra is a flagship holistic health and wellness center spa retreat in the Santa Mountains and Hills of Encino, CA. Chakra has always been the holistic epicenter for healing and learning.

Founded by Sandie West

Prizes are awarded in all the major categories (best picture, director, cinematographer, screenwriter, actors etc.), divided by genre: narrative feature, documentary feature, comedy (laughter is healing) and shorts and music videos.

This year we are including screenplay contest with Q and A's from the writers and the whole theme lends well to a chakra theme photography contest. Complete with Award ceremony & red carpet event.

Feature-length and short, narrative and documentary as well as TV episodic programming include pilots and streaming web series.

Filmmakers, please submit your film when it is fully finished as each submission will be a completed work, we will not update the submission with a more recent cut.

Films need to be downloadable from Film Freeway and a downloadable trailer without this it may affect your official selection. Deliverables for exibit should be easy to access and downloadable from film freeway only. If subtitles are requested please submit asap
or upload to film freeway right away. We do not download from a youtube video for the festival.

Entering your film into the festival does not guarantee acceptance or an award. Fees are nonrefundable and we reserve the right to change our programming without notice.

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  • 🔥 Absolutely killer festival! 🎬 Huge thanks supporting the independent & alternative voices! 😈✨ 🤘🩸🏆 https://www.youtube.com/@TrixStarT

    July 2026
  • Stephen Hessel

    Very nice festival! Sandie was wonderful to work with and did an excellent job communicating with filmmakers and promoting my film, The Leaf-a-teers. I truly appreciated her professionalism, enthusiasm, and support throughout the process.

    June 2026
    Response from festival:

    Stephen your film was received very well and we loved it, in fact a small monarch butterfly is on the official T shirt and I was glad to inspire you to do a trailer for this very lovely film. Sorry you were not able to attend in person but audience were asking questions about the animation and the voice overs. The awards are not finished yet, Voting is still in place. Back in touch soon, thank you

  • We applaud the this festival's focus on consequential topics, real world change, and films that showcase films that are transformational.

    June 2026
  • ncux Ay

    Namaste, Creative Chakra Film Festival!

    You must have had such a relaxing time at the spa and yoga, since there are still no results on the website, and I can't figure out the fate of my project. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend in person; I attended your festival in my astral body. But my flesh body still wanted to receive some clarity by mail. And, if I'm lucky, new laurels with the corresponding status.
    Take your time—Eternity lies ahead!

    Sending you rays of positivity,
    Andrey

    June 2026
    Response from festival:

    Audrey, the live event has passed and we are still watching and voting on films. You have a filmmaker asset page I made for every filmmaker. Please check everything. You have my number, my email and a zoom to connect with me in Los Angeles Pacific Standard Time. The Awards will be announced online June 29th and everyone is welcome as a filmmaker in this film festival to join us