Thank you for joining us for episode 383 of Live Happy Now.

We're observing World Gratitude Day on September 21st, and for that special occasion,

we wanted to bring in a very special guest.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I am so excited to be talking with renowned

cinematographer, director,

and producer, Louis Schwartzberg. Louis is best known for the stunning imagery he creates

using time-lapse photography. In films like Fantastic Fungi and the 3D IMAX film,

Mysteries of the Unseen World with National Geographic, he has shown us the beauty of the world

in ways we've never seen before. And now with his new film, Gratitude Revealed, he has created

an immersive, awe-inspiring experience that takes us inside the human spirit to explore the

wonder, beauty, and joy of gratitude.

Louis, thank you so much for being a guest here.

Live happy now.

It's honored to be here with T. Paula.

Your film is so thoughtful and so beautiful, and it's such a natural fit for us.

One of the things that impressed me about it is you said that this is a film 40 years in the making.

So tell me what that means.

Actually, I think it's my whole life. But 40 years in the making, I've been like sort of collecting these like little nuggets, little magic moments with remarkable but ordinary people

on topics like courage, creativity, connection, love, all the little values that add up to gratitude.

And during the pandemic, I wasn't able to go out in film, so it was a perfect time to kind

of assemble all these pieces. And I think it's really timely that it's coming out now, because

what the pandemic has taught us is a fact that we took

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