From the team that produced the Emmy Award-winning PBS Special
BHUTAN: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness
BHUTAN: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness
“The ultimate hippie fantasy retold three decades later in a
moving and magical documentary.
Don’t miss it!”
moving and magical documentary.
Don’t miss it!”
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"It's SPECTACULAR! The photography is gorgeous..."
- Paul Theroux, Author 'To the Ends of the Earth' |
"IMPRESSIVE! It's a real time capsule of an era and a place..."
- Michael Pollan, Author 'How To Change Your Mind' |
“I LOVED the film, beautifully made and vividly told, the story balanced and without sentimentality. The good, the bad and the ugly, but the idealism shone through very brightly.”
- Michael Singer, Author
- Michael Singer, Author
“Peace, love and paradise!”
Featured in Articles on:
Huff Post, Smithsonian, London Daily Mail, Buzz Feed,
Slate, Trip, & First To Know
Broadcasted in German for Spiegal TV
WIRED (Italy) published a feature
VIOLET MAGAZINE (London) published a feature
MARE (Germany) featured TAYLOR CAMP
Huff Post, Smithsonian, London Daily Mail, Buzz Feed,
Slate, Trip, & First To Know
Broadcasted in German for Spiegal TV
WIRED (Italy) published a feature
VIOLET MAGAZINE (London) published a feature
MARE (Germany) featured TAYLOR CAMP
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Add The Edge of Paradise To Your Library Collection Below!
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The Edge of Paradise
Directed by Robert C. Stone
Run time: 86 min. Public Performance Rights Licensing:
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Synopsis: Taylor Camp, 1969 to 1977 —
The ultimate hippie fantasy, a pot-friendly, clothing-optional treehouse village on a beach at the end of the road on Kauai’s Northshore. Started by Elizabeth Taylor’s brother, it ends in flames eight years later when the locals decide it’s time for them to go. |
Long Synopsis: Hawaii, 1969 — Thirteen young mainlanders – refugees from campus riots, Vietnam War protests and police brutality in Berkeley – flee to Kauai. Before long, this little tribe of men, women, and children are arrested for vagrancy and sentenced to ninety days hard labor in the county jail.
Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bails them out and invites the group to set up camp on his oceanfront land—without giving them any restrictions, regulations or supervision. Within a year the camp becomes a clothing-optional, pot-friendly tree house village known as Taylor Camp, drawing waves of surfers, hippies, and Vietnam vets.
Eight years later, after condemning Taylor Camp to make way for a State park, government officials torch the tree houses, leaving only ashes and memories of "the best days of our lives". The film tells the story of a group of young people that created order without rules, rejecting materialism for the healing power of nature. Taylor Camp was an unintentional intentional community on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world—a community that welcomed all races, religions, nationalities and sexual orientations. Through interviews made 30-years later, after the filmmakers tracked down the campers, their neighbors and the government officials who finally got rid of them, we come to understand the significance of Taylor Camp—one of the most extraordinary, unique and symbolic narratives of the 60’s youth culture.
Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bails them out and invites the group to set up camp on his oceanfront land—without giving them any restrictions, regulations or supervision. Within a year the camp becomes a clothing-optional, pot-friendly tree house village known as Taylor Camp, drawing waves of surfers, hippies, and Vietnam vets.
Eight years later, after condemning Taylor Camp to make way for a State park, government officials torch the tree houses, leaving only ashes and memories of "the best days of our lives". The film tells the story of a group of young people that created order without rules, rejecting materialism for the healing power of nature. Taylor Camp was an unintentional intentional community on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world—a community that welcomed all races, religions, nationalities and sexual orientations. Through interviews made 30-years later, after the filmmakers tracked down the campers, their neighbors and the government officials who finally got rid of them, we come to understand the significance of Taylor Camp—one of the most extraordinary, unique and symbolic narratives of the 60’s youth culture.
