Upcoming Events

Film & Music Salon on the Petit Ermitage Rooftop: Not Film Festival Short Selections

Our next Music & Film Salon at Petit Ermitage, co-hosted by Darby Gaelle Hannon and BLKBRD Films, will be held on Monday, December 2nd. We will feature a night of short films curated by Gio Baladessa, the founder of Not Film Festival.

Doors will open at 7:00pm where you can settle into the evening atmosphere. Grab a drink and some food and listen to live music inspired by the films.

At 8:00pm we'll move to the firedeck for a screening of a selection of short films by NÒT FILM FEST director Gio Labadessa. The festival has been held yearly since 2018 in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy, and was listed by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the 20 international film festivals essential to independent cinema.

 

This screening will include a special appearance by festival director Gio Labadessa as well as the local filmmakers who created these films. Intro and Q&A to follow.

Don't miss out on this very special evening and unique opportunity to network with fellow arthouse film lovers.

  • Movement Workshop with Cati Jean

  • Autism Speaks

  • Celebration of Life

  • In Her Name Screening

  • Yoga in the Garden

  • EmpowerHer Luminara

  • Jessica Hundley Workshop

  • Movement Workshop with Cati Jean

  • Celebration of Life

  • Movement Workshop with Cati Jean

  • In Her Name Screening

  • Autism Speaks

  • EmpowerHer Luminara

  • Movement Workshop with Cati Jean

  • In Her Name Screening

  • Jessica Hundley Workshop

  • Celebration of Life

  • In Her Name Screening

  • Movement Workshop with Cati Jean

  • EmpowerHer Luminara

  • In Her Name Screening

  • Movement Workshop with Cati Jean

  • In Her Name Screening

  • Jessica Hundley Workshop

  • EmpowerHer Luminara

  • Yoga in the Garden

  • In Her Name Screening

At Cheshire Moon Productions, our mission is to illuminate the human experience, spark imagination, and foster connections. By hosting community events, book clubs, movement workshops, and more, we strive to guide transformative journeys toward empowerment. We encourage participants to embark on a journey of self-discovery by finding ways to soften the ego and open our hearts to realms beyond logic and closer to truth.

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Meet Sarah

Sarah Carter, CEO of Cheshire Moon Productions, has spent over two decades behind the scenes, infusing joy and pure intention into her mission as an artist. She has collaborated with similarly free-spirited producers and creatives to create magic, cinematic and otherwise.

Having acquired teaching status for her studies with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes on story analysis and channeling archetypes, Sarah applies her experience as a mystic and professional core energetics trainer to all facets of her life's work. This unique perspective infuses her creative endeavors with depth and meaning, allowing her to guide others on transformative journeys of self-discovery and empowerment.

Alongside her roles as a professional actor, director, writer, and producer, Sarah is also a singer/songwriter and musician in her band, "SanguinDrake." Through music, she brings another dimension to her artistic expression, weaving together storytelling and melody to create soul-stirring experiences for audiences.

Sarah's diverse talents and multifaceted approach to creativity reflect her unwavering commitment to exploring the depths of human experience and sharing profound truths through her own artistry. Her mission is to nurture creative potential and inspire others through her own example, guiding individuals to have absolute faith in their instincts, venture into the unknown, and emerge with projects that celebrate truth, beauty, freedom, and the recognition of their unique genius.

Sarah, along with her gifted peers and masters of the healing arts, facilitates workshops and events for clientele throughout the year. Scroll to learn more about Sarah’s active events, and her past projects.

Past Events

Film & Music Salon on the Petit Ermitage Rooftop: Out of the Blue

Our sixth Monday Night Music & Film Salons at Petit Ermitage, co-hosted with Darby Gaelle Hannon, and BLKBRD Films, was held on November 18th. We featured the 40th anniversary 4k restoration of Dennis Hopper’s 1980 film, Out of the Blue.

Our screening included a special appearance by restoration producers John Alan Simon & Elizabeth Karr, who were in attendance to discuss the film before and after, and a musical performance by Frankie Palmer.

The cast includes Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Farrell, Don Gordon, and Raymond Burr.

Film & Music Salon on the Petit Ermitage Rooftop: Nosferatu and Eban Schletter

Our fifth Music & Film Salon at Petit Ermitage, co-hosted by Darby Gaelle Hannon and BLKBRD Films, was held on Tuesday, October 29th. We screened David Lee Fisher’s latest film, Nosferatu, which is very close to the CMP family. Sarah Carter stars in the film alongside Doug Jones, who Sarah worked with on Falling Skies for five years. The night opened with a performance from our musical guest Eban Schletter, the composer for Nosferatu, and closed with our screening of Nosferatu.

No One Gets to Fall Apart Book Launch

On October 22nd, CMP hosted a book launch for Sarah LaBrie’s new memoir, No One Gets to Fall Apart, published by Harper Collins. We hosted a cacao ceremony and women’s circle to open our hearts for a spiritual release to align with the release of this incredible story.

On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie’s mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood, marked at turns by violence and all-consuming closeness.

Digging into the events that led to her mother’s break, Sarah traces her family history of mental illness, from the dysphoria that plagued her great-grandmother, a granddaughter of slaves, to her own experience with depression as a scholarship student at Brown. At the same time, she navigates a decades-long fixation on a novel she can’t finish but can't abandon, her complicated feelings about her white partner, and a fraught friendship colored by betrayal.

Spanning the globe from Houston’s Third Ward to Paris to Tallinn and New York to Los Angeles, No One Gets to Fall Apart is an unflinching chronicle of one woman's attempt to forge a new future through a better understanding of the past. 

Monday Night Film & Music Salon on the Petit Ermitage Rooftop: In Her Name and Ali Helnwein

Our fourth Monday Night Music & Film Salon at Petit Ermitage, co-hosted by Darby Gaelle Hannon and BLKBRD Films, was held on Monday, October 21st.

This Music & Film Salon was a celebration of In Her Name. The night opened with a musical performance by Ali Helnwein, the composer of In Her Name. Ali Helnwein is an award winning film composer who has graced three CMP projects now: In Her Name, A Pity, and Scene House.

After Ali’s performance, we had a special screening of In Her Name’s Behind the Scenes Documentary, followed by a casual Q & A. This was the first official screening of Three Women, Two Stories, One Vision: The Making of In Her Name.

Monday Night Film & Music Salon on the Petit Ermitage Rooftop: Inland, Lucy, and Tashaki Miyaki

Our third Film & Music Salon at Petit Ermitage Hotel, co-hosted with Darby Gaelle Hannon and BLKBRD Films, was held on Monday, October 7th. 

Doors opened at 7:00pm where guests were able to settle into the evening atmosphere. We opened the night with food, drinks, and live music from Tashaki Miyaki in the Wiggle Room. At sunset we moved to the fire deck for a screening of the very successful short, Lucy, directed by Mojean Aria and starring James Aaron Oliver, followed by another daring feature, Inland, written and directed by Fritz Ryder.

Monday Night Film & Music Salon on the Petit Ermitage Rooftop: Roving Woman, Darby Hannon, and Luca Pino

Our second Monday Night Music & Film Salon at Petit Ermitage, co-hosted by Darby Gaelle Hannon and BLKBRD Films, was held on September 23rd.

The evening showcased the US release of Roving Woman, a feature film collaboration including our friends James Oliver and Giant Pictures. A musical performance by Darby Hannon and Luca Pino opened the event.

You can learn more about Roving Woman, and all the films distributed by Tribeca Films, here.

Monday Night Film & Music Salon on the Petit Ermitage Rooftop: Scene House, Dane Sandborg, Randal Fisher, and more

On August 26th, Cheshire Moon Productions co-hosted the first in a series of film and music salons with Petit Ermitage, a luxury hotel in West Hollywood. Dane Sandborg and Randal Fisher opened the night with a beautiful musical performance. Then at sunset began a showcase of work by emerging filmmakers, including an exclusive rough cut of Scene House, our proof of concept short directed by Annabella Fazio and produced by Lia Lee and Lime House Pictures and Executive Produced by Sarah Carter of CMP.

Petit Ermitage’s nights on the rooftop are magical, and present a wonderful opportunity to experience curated art in a gorgeous space. This is an exclusive invite-only event intended for musicians, filmmakers, and investors to meet, share art, and connect more meaningfully to each other and the amazing work we are all doing. 

In Her Name Screening

Vidiots featured In Her Name in LA to celebrate its distribution with Tribeca Films, Giant Pictures, and Drafthouse. The film screened at Vidiots Eagle Theater on Thursday, February 8th, 2024. Getty images was in attendance to cover the step and repeat. 

Following the screening, there was a Q&A panel with the cast and crew, including Sarah Carter (Writer/Director/Producer/Actor), Erin Hammond (Actor/Producer), Philippe Caland (Actor/Producer), James Aaron Oliver (Actor), Cynthia Bravo (Producer), Ali Helnwein (Composer), Kevin Barth (Editor), and Iain Trimble (Cinematographer). 

A one-of-a-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and everyone curious about cinema, Vidiots is dedicated to inspiring human interaction around film through communal theatrical presentations and preserving, growing, and providing access to its diverse DVD, BluRay, and rare VHS collection, showcasing the work of emerging, master, and underrepresented artists, and producing unique and affordable film events, and vital education programs.

A Los Angeles film space founded by women, Vidiots was opened in Santa Monica as an alternative video store in 1985 by L.A. natives Patty Polinger and Cathy Tauber. For nearly three decades Vidiots thrived, growing its unique collection, and serving a far-reaching, diverse, and devoted community of film lovers. In 2012, reacting to seismic changes in the film landscape, Vidiots became a 501(c)3 non-profit. 2015 brought two major donors to Vidiots — longtime customer Dr. Leonard Lipman, and Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, which joined the organization at a pivotal moment, bringing a much-needed wave of new awareness, and allowing Vidiots to keep its doors open to the public. With the unwavering support of Annapurna Pictures, the organization was able to devise an extensive plan for sustainable relaunch in a new home in the heart of Northeast L.A.

Current supporters include the most innovative and community-oriented companies in LA and beyond: MUBI, A24, Alamo Drafthouse, All Facts, Cinetic Media, Criterion Collection, Final Draft, Genuine Article Pictures, GKIDS, Letterboxd, Level Forward, Lionsgate, Magnolia Pictures, Monkeypaw Productions, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Paramount Pictures, Pascal Pictures, Pipeline Media Group, Shout! Factory, Sony Pictures, Superbloom, UTA, Utopia Media, Vinegar Syndrome, WGAW, WME, Ways & Means, Zeiss, The Black List, Cinema Eye Honors, Film Independent, Outfest, Sundance Institute.

Cheshire Moon Productions was honored to be invited into this historical community and support their mission.

Cocoa and Sound Healing Ceremony

Facilitated by Shaman Micah Sheiner and Sarah Carter

Align your energy, body, and mind with simple toning and intention setting, and relax in the resonance of bowls, gongs, drums, flutes, and more. Open your heart with gentle Cacao medicine, and experience a healing sharing circle guided by sacred owl medicine.

Micah Sheiner is a vibrational artist/healer. He travels extensively to learn from musical, spiritual, & healing traditions around the world.  With inspiration from India, he has dedicated much of his path to the yoga of sound. In Nepal he has trained in Himalayan sound healing with singing bowls, gongs, & bells.  In Europe he has apprenticed in gong playing, gong yoga, & Starhenge World Peace Bell Gardens with Don Conreaux.



He is currently studying Traditional Tibetan Medicine with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang & other senior Tibetan doctors - gradually integrating external therapies, herbal medicine, mantra & spiritual healing into his sound healing practice.



Micah received a Master’s degree in Education from UCLA.  He explores and teaches sound through bowls, gongs, voice, didgeridoo, strings, & percussion instruments.  He weaves these into resonant soundscapes for healing, meditation, yoga, & journeying.  Micah conducts sound baths, workshops, individual sessions, & performances in California and internationally.

“Wisdom is whatever works.”
- Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Mother Night Book Club

Learn to recognize your soul, tribe, and mission through the teachings of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves.

Mother Night invites you to tap into the generative power of the goodness of our core selves — that is, all creativity and understanding that lies out of sight in darkness — often called the unconscious. Over 11 hours of teachings, we integrate and discuss to 12 stories and myths, receive blessings, and share personal revelation in weekly circles facilitated by Sarah Carter.

This journey of discovery helps us to embody the miracle of being alive and staying alive in order to be fully present to what our lives have to offer in the moment. We learn practices to see through the darkness, listen deeply, and create purposefully by reconnecting to our sacred heart and our unique wisdom.

"WOW. This course has been so much more than I had anticipated. The alchemy that we collectively spun on Tuesday nights has activated my creativity and opened my perspective to the magic all around me when I walk, see, hear, and create with my soul! I can see the changes in my daily life and I feel ON PATH in a way like never before.”

Amber LeStrange

Interior Designer. Painter. Model. Actor. Mother.

Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Within every woman there lives a powerful force filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society's attempt to ‘civilize’ us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.”

Our book studies are not your average wine and gossip book clubs. When we circle up to reflect and integrate the teachings of whatever chosen book, we are opening to life-altering expansion.

Women Who Run With the Wolves book study takes place over the course of 16 parties where participants are free to come and go as they please. We howl and growl together, reconnect to our primal natures, our freedom, our loyalty to ourselves and to each other, and embarked on a journey to find strength in our instincts, healing through our stories, and joy in sharing our lives.

Sarah had the honor of studying with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes in person. Her teaching is in the evolutionary impact of storytelling, dream analysis, sharing circles, and dance tapping into our natural orientation toward joy and celebration.

With a supportive community we can reach our personal goals with integrity. We deserve to have it all and share everything we’ve got to give.

This study supports us to tap into our unique genius which is essential for living a fulfilling life and for flowing in alignment with our personal mission.

"There was no judgment as she embraced the wild self, allowing us to discover parts of ourselves and what creative need was in each of us. As a creative and an art dealer, I realized I wanted more than just the art of the sale. I wanted to expand my creative horizons in the areas of the artistic spirit which intrigued me and that were the reasons why I was behind the selling of these artists in the first place. I felt the impulse during and after the sessions to expand my understanding and interest in the artistic personality and to bring awareness to a larger, broader audience. This I now believe I can do through film.

Sarah is a unique and very special creative, and I highly recommend this course for anyone who is wanting to expand their knowledge and find acceptance for the wild woman within all of us."

Emerald Gruin
Creative Director. Art Dealer. Mother

Existential Kink

“We always get exactly what we want; but often, though we may not be aware of it, what we most want is dark - very dark.” 

Existential Kink is a smart, sexy guide to embracing the repressed, tabooed, and often unwanted aspects of ourselves in order to discover inner power. Once we break through resistance to these teachings there is no turning back. This book is a true game changer.

Each of us has a dual nature: we are light (conscious) and dark (unconscious). The dark side of our personality - the “other”, the shadow side - is made up of what we think is our primitive, primal, negative impulses - our “existential kink.” Our existential kink also drives the dark or negative repeating patterns in our life: always choosing the abusive partner or boss, settling for less, thinking that we’re undeserving, not worthy. But it also is the source of our greatest power. 

In Existential Kink, Carolyn Elliott, PhD, offers a truth-telling guide for bringing our shadow into the light. Inviting us to make conscious the unconscious, Elliott asks us to own the subconscious pleasure we get from the stuck, painful patterns of our existence. 

"Sarah has an incredible gift to create the most beautiful, open and safe spaces. She is intuitive, vulnerable and deeply connected to others! I usually shy away from such experiences, but being part of her book study group was incredibly transformational. I had lost touch with my creativity and my career, but through Sarah's gentle guidance, I found my way and everything about my life and work shifted in the most beautiful way."

Sarah Silverman

Jessica Hundley Workshop

Jessica Hundley is a writer, journalist, and filmmaker who delves into narrative art, music, counterculture, magic, and psychedelia. She is the author of Taschen Book’s coveted series The Library of Esoterica: Tarot, Witchcraft, Astrology, and Plant Magick.

This full moon ritual connects every aspect of Jessica Hundley’s work. By meditating on duality and embracing the value of opposition, we learn to accept and explore the darker aspects of ourselves with reverence and curiosity.

She also gives participants a tarot card reading, as well as free copy of her book.

Writer

Hundley has published over a dozen books in the last decade, an acclaimed biography on country rock icon Gram Parsons for DaCapo, a book on music and meditation with the director David Lynch, and an overview of photographs from longtime Michael Jackson photographer Todd Gray and extensive overview of the photography of Dennis Hopper from Taschen Publications,

In her 20+ career as an arts, film and culture journalist, she has interviewed countless iconic actors, directors and musicians or publications such as Vogue, Rolling Stone, NY Times, Mojo and many others. As an editor, Hundley has served as masthead editor for men’s magazine Complex, music mag The Fader, and the UK magazine Dazed and Confused. She has contributed essays on music and culture to several books as well as penning liner notes for numerous record labels.  

Creative Director

As a lead Creative Director for various high-profile artists and brands, Hundley's recent work includes overseeing staging, visuals and overall concepting for John Legend's 2021 Bigger Love Tour and Legend’s 2022-23 Las Vegas residency. Hundley continues to work collaboratively with John Legend and his team as a Creative Director and Producer, overseeing the recent launch of Legend's LOVED01 skin care line, as well as album art, limited edition book and album packaging and commercial projects. Hundley also served as co-creative director alongside Darren Romanelli on the DomeRX an immersive art experience at the 2022 FORMAT Festival. Other recent copywriting and creative directing work includes drink brand GHIA and an expansive campaign for Corona/Mexico alongside the team at CAA/Observatory. Hundley also spearheaded the restoration and re-release of Dennis Hopper’s lost 1970 classic, The Last Movie. Working alongside The Hopper Art Trust, Hundley is currently overseeing the film’s worldwide distro and accompanying experiential campaign, as well as soundtrack release. 

Filmmaker

As a filmmaker, Hundley has served as director and producer on numerous music videos & commercials. Her documentary short on Latino fans of The Smiths, "Viva Morrissey" screened at the Edinburgh and SXSW film festivals. Hundley also directed and produced, "Such Hawks, Such Hounds", a feature-length music documentary on the American hard rock underground.

Monday Yoga in the Garden

Our Monday Yoga in the Garden practice with Sat Siri is a revelation. A time typically overwhelmed by the hustle of the week to come was reframed by prioritizing softness and flow, allowing for alignment with the heart as opposed to the ego. 

To create the space for deep nourishment and enlightenment at the risk of falling behind in our day to day… to surrender our ideas of what has to happen on a Monday morning… and instead breathe together, cry, laugh, and dance in spite of the stress of having to get all these “necessary things” done… was nothing short of life changing.

By letting go of everything but the present, we honored the moment, and respected that the week ahead could be entirely new. Knowing we had done the real work… trusting that yesterday’s pains have been integrated and alchemized… we were able to move forward with more of ourselves to offer.

This commitment to Monday Morning Yoga in the Garden and to the space for revelation and integration continues to be a reset and a reminder to trust the need to soften and bend the linear course of life… to recognize the genius in the natural design… and the cycles in our lives. When we witness each other become the most authentic and effortless version of ourselves, we help each other to grow, creating a collective field rich with soul and reflective of a garden blossoming into full expression.

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