One Through Love

From Tehran To Java, From Istanbul To San Rafael: MVFF Connects With Live Audiences Worldwide. In a festival first, MVFF premiered One Through Love, an event that played live to audiences world wide: participants from as far afield as Java, Istanbul and Tehran joined the MVFF audience via TV and a live webcast for filmmaker Stephen Olssen’s latest. The film was simultaneously projected for the packed house at the Smith Rafael Film Center, had a national simulcast across the US by LINK TV, and a simultaneous, world-wide webcast of the film and the post-film discussion with Rumi experts. Reports of audiences logging in from as far away as Tehran brought the world together in ways that director Stephen Olssen compared to the Beatles “All You Need Is Love” world broadcast 44 years ago: “whether it’s the Beatles or Rumi, the 13th century poet who is a bestseller in the US, the message is the same: we’re united by love.”