Shift, The (Ambition to Meaning) USA
2009, 120min.
Prod.: Marco Sanches, Script: Kristen Lazarian, Dir.: Michael Goorjian, Dir. of Phot.: Robert Humphreys, Compos.: Chris Ferreira, Prod. Design: John Paul Goorjian, Sound: Brian Copenhagen, Edit.: Rick LeCompte.
Cast: Wayne Dyer, Michael DeLuise, Ed Kerr, Portia de Rossi, Gabi DuBay, Shannon Sturges, Karen Kondazian.
The film is a portrait of three modern lives in need of new direction and new meaning: a businessman, a mother seeking her own expression in the world, and a director trying to make a name for himself. Through their intertwined stories the film teaches us how to create a life of meaning and purpose. Dr. Wayne Dyer explores the spiritual journey in the second half of life when we long to find the purpose that is our unique contribution to the world. The powerful shift from the ego constructs we are taught early in life by parents and society—which promote an emphasis on achievement and accumulation—are shown in contrast to a life of meaning, focused on serving and giving back. This is the story of the most important moment of your life when you choose to move toward a life that gathers up the pieces of your best, most fulfilled, most loving self. It’s the moment when you start living a life rich with meaning and begin playing the music you came here to play!
Production Company
Hayhouse Productions
| Goorjian, Michael A.  Michael A. Goorjian (born 1970, Oakland, California, USA)
Film actor and director. Studied acting, singing, and dancing at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Attended an undergraduate course at UCLA and studied theater arts. In 1991 with some friends established the Buffalo Nights Theater Company in Los Angeles. He also founded the San Francisco Bay Area Maldoror Productions in 1994. He guest starred in the TV series Growing Pains (1985), Touched by an Angel (1994), Sweet Justice (1994), Under Suspicion (1994), Party of Five (1994), as well as in movies Newsies (1992), Forever Young (1992), The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? (1993), Something More (1999), The Invisibles (1999). In 1992 he snagged his Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor as an autistic boy in the CBS TV movie David's Mother (1994).
Filmography
Blood Drips Heavily on Newsies Square (1991), Oakland Underground (1997), Call Waiting (1998), Illusion (2004), Players' Club (2006), The War Prayer (2007), You Can Heal Your Life (2007), The Shift (2009).
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