Beautiful new song (cover) – Bridge of Light

Filmed, edited & performed by Jaya Chela Drolma

Lyrics & Original performer by Pink

Co-written by Billy Mann

Written For Happy Feet 2!

Sapphire Eyes Productions is proud to reveal their new documentary

‘Take Action. Think Frogs!’

We launched publicly on December 8th, 2011

at the Department of Primary Industries, Mildura VICTORA.

Project Details  | Project Website |  Purchase DVD

ORIGINAL MUSIC

Original music was commissioned from Skye-Tara Lewis

who currently performs at the Gold Coast Youth Orchestra.

A post-concert interview with Jaya Chela Drolma, following the Gold Coast Youth Orchestra Annual Gala Concert, which was held on November 12, 2011 at the Gold Coast Arts Centre, QLD.

Jaya was MC for the event. She also performed the same duty for the 2010 concert.

To hire Jaya for an event, use the following contact form:
http://www.jayacheladrolma.net/#!contact

For more information on the GCYO, visit:
http://www.gcyo.org.au/

2011 Set List

Big Band: Conductor – Malcolm Wood

California Dreaming  – John & Michelle Phillips

Modern Mexican – Maddie Keenan

Undecided – Charlie Shavers & Sid Robin

String Orchestra:  Conductor – Asher Yaniw

Caulderon – Keith Sharp

Entrance of The Queen of Sheba – Georg Friedrich Handel

Fantasia on Amazing Grace – Eliot A. Del Borgo

Grand Royal – Michael Patterson

Little Big Band: Conductor – Matthew Armstrong

Don’t Stop Believin’ – Steve Perry, Neil Schon, Jon Cain

Man in the Mirror – Glenn Ballard & Seidah Garrett

Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond

Woodchopper’s Ball – Joe Bishop & Woody Herman

Junior Symphony: Conductor – Antony Sambolt

Somewhere Out There – James Horner & Cynthia Weil

Send in the Clowns – Stephen Sondhiem

Jupiter-Bringer of Jolility  – Gustav Holst

Hooked on Classics – James Burden

Symphony: Conductor – Bruce Davidson

Polovtsian Dances – Alexander Borodin

633 Squadron – Ron Goodwin; arranged by Bruce Davidson

Two Symphonies Together: Conductor – Bruce Davidson

Overture to the Marriage of Figaro – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Filed under: Music, Presentations Tagged: 2011, Gala Concert, GCYO, Jaya Chela Drolma, MC, Music ]]> https://jayacheladrolma.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/mc-highlights-for-2011-gcyo-gala-concert/feed/ 0 jayacheladrolma https://jayacheladrolma.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/freshly-revamped-and-a-new-channel-is-born/ https://jayacheladrolma.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/freshly-revamped-and-a-new-channel-is-born/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:25:23 +0000 Jaya Chela Drolma http://jayacheladrolma.wordpress.com/?p=328 ]]> Wow!  My main Production company website – Sapphire Eyes Productions – has had a complete streamline and facelift!

And, after much pondering, there is a brand new Youtube channel ‘birthed’.

If you have  loved our work to date (via the SEPDocos Youtube channel), please  ‘subscribe’, ‘follow’ & ‘like’  our new channel -  SEPFullLength – dedicated to bringing you the culminative fruits of our hard work: you will find just full-length versions of the documentary’s produced by Sappphire Eyes Productions (Youtube Channel B).

From now on, interviews, project updates, short films, etc,

will be still be viewable via the existing SEPDocos Youtube channel.

We will begin uploading existing and new full-length content over the next few weeks.

A very special ‘Thank you’ to Daniel Zalec (Senior Writer at SEP), who worked an ‘all-nighter’ to get all this work completed so beautifully, with great dedication and care – you are simply, ‘the best’!

In anticipation of our new channel content,

~ please ‘subscribe’, ‘follow’ & ‘like’ ~

No gas fracking; no chemicals in our environment!

This showreel from Jaya Chela Drolma, features clips from the projects, “In Peril”, “The Sign in the Field”, “Fire Water” and, ”Smoke, Mirrors & Journalism’ – Bangalore, 2011″.  The common theme is chemical exposure.

A very special word of sincere thanks is warranted to Thomas J. Bergersen ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Bergersen ), whose company gave permission to Jaya Chela Drolma to use the brilliant music score, ‘Heart of Courage’ from the album ‘Invincible’ (2010).

Now uploaded to two youtube channels:

SapphireEyesDocos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_C6D3F2mj4

JayaChelaOfficial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ETviitulQ

For additional details, please refer to the YouTube Video Description.

The music is included with direct permission from the Composer’s company.

Purchase music from: http://www.thomasbergersen.com/

or, http://www.thomasbergersen.com/wordpress/?page_id=40

The event? Representing our film FIRE WATER: Australia’s Industrial Fluoridation Disgrace  at the 6th International Voices from the Waters film festival – yes, a whole festival dedicated to fresh water around the planet.

Both Daniel Zalec (Researcher/Writer) and myself, Jaya Chela Drolma (Producer/Director) were very blessed to attend this very important film festival, due to the generosity and support of over 40 fiscal angels from the Australian and International community.  A sincere and heartfelt, ‘Thank you’ to all our donors for getting us over the line, and into India.

After a somewhat stressful and challenging journey to arrive in Bangalore on time (I nearly didn’t get out of the country, due to a slight error in the booking of my ticket – best just know I’m very grateful to an important person within the ranks of  Virgin airlines who pulled some swift strings at Sydney airport – eleventh hour, fifty-ninth minute, fifty-ninth second type stuff whilst the plane was held on the tarmac !), we arrived to balmy monsoon weather and a very warm welcome from our film festival hosts.

The event was beautifully organised from start to finish.

The festivities were a feast of Indian hospitality.  Just wonderful!  We hope you ENJOY the following Youtube of the cultural festivities!

The festival director, Mr George Kutty, had really put in quality time and effort, to source brilliant films of intelligence, diversity and varied length from around the world.  George’s knowledge of the issues surrounding current trends, patterns and ‘agendas’ was enormous and astute.  Thank you George, for all your hard research, warmly shared insights and kindly humanity throughout the festival.

What was astonishing for both Daniel and myself, was seeing so many films revealing the same patterns of corruption by water authorities/boards.  Yes, the planet’s most precious and vital resource – drinking water – is being systematically hijacked by greedy privatisation corporations.  The same tactics, worldwide, are used to hoodwink the people out of their birthright – clean, safe water  ie. without chemical poisons or pathogens, in plentiful supply.

But we were also reminded how polluted and overworked our water sources are, by the billions of humans and animals living on our planet dependent on just 1% of fresh water.  Ahhhhh!

Source: USGS

But, when people-power is harnessed and focussed correctly, unity and strength achieve often impossible hurdles towards great success.

Anyhow, here is a list of my most favourite of the many films shown (hyperlinked – please click each link for individual synopsis & further details):

1 ½ Litres and Some More

And the River flows on (watch how a slimy bunch of bureacrats take over a kindly humble Mexican town to build an unwanted dam – grrrrrr! Hey, but not without a fight from the locals! YAY!)

Water How Much!

Between the Crab and the Sea

Honey Sucker

Warriors of Qiugang  (EVERY Australian should see this one ie. how one Chinese town took on the crooks and WON !)

One Water (one of my personal favourites – six years in the making – brilliant indeed)

Work of 1000

Dams – The Lethal Water  Bombs

Water Makes Money

The Miracle Water Village

The Well: Water Voices from Ethiopia  (my favourite of the festival – utterly amazing).

The Buffalo Flows

Fire Water: Australia’s Industrial Fluoridation Disgrace (our own film was well received, and closed the festival!)

The water conference on the 29th August, 2011 was interesting indeed.  With five professionals speaking on a range of subjects regarding Indian groundwater, I have typed up my GROUNDWATER CONFERENCE NOTES that I noted as best I was able to, given accents and language constraints – I hope you find them interesting; and added the footage for the Cultural Festivities (that includes some of the speakers from said conference) .

After these wonderful efforts, it was time for the Australian offering.  But, unfortunately, Daniel had succumbed to a bout of Indian ‘belly’ sickness the previous night, and with a high fever, he was confined to his room.  He was meant to give his speech, but  was bitterly disappointed that this opportunity was out of his reach.  So, it was up to me to tackle this task.

Here is the TEXT VERSION; and the YOUTUBE of Daniel’s speech, Smoke, Mirrors and Journalism: Making Fluoridation ʻUnʼ-Newsworthy and the significance of Fire Water  that I gave that afternoon.

This event has touched my heart deeply.  I will never be the same person again, after seeing the world interacting, fighting, poisoning, polluting, ignoring, taking for granted, or, waging wars, over water.  Our birthright is, and always should be, safe, clean, water.  Without which, no life can exist.

Thank you to everyone who made this trip possible.  Truly, a memorable event.  As an aside, Daniel and myself did take a few days break after all the stress – of preparing for this trip (with the enormous, relentless workload we have had the past eighteen months); the travel itself; the festival and conference; then being sick.  We took a week of time to rest, and went to Goa.  I can recommend two well serviced and very  beautiful places to stay:  The Alcove (a cruisey, party-styled, laid-back, fun kind of place on the beach to chill out at);  and, the exquisite Marbella (a Portugese styled guesthouse) that we utterly adored.  As mentioned in Daniel’s FIRST WordPress posting, a very special mention must be made to our cherished friends at DrumJam, for their kind assistance with lending their driver to get us on the train in Bangalore, to Goa (thank you Vasundhara Das and Roberto) – at four in the morning, finding the right platform in the monsoon rains, is rather daunting!

And now, finally, I can give you the PLAYLIST TO ALL BANGALORE FILM CONTENT

Dear Reader, you are welcome to share this posting widely, to all those you may know, who are concerned with fresh water issues worldwide.  The Voices from the Waters International Film Festival, is a TRAVELLING film festival.  Therefore, please contact Festival Director, George Kutty at  if you would like to host the event in your country/town.

And, you are welcome to watch our film

FIRE WATER: Australia’s Industrial Fluoridation Disgrace.

Then share the OFFICIAL WEBSITE link with your loved ones, family, friends and collegues.

Knowledge is Power.

Above all, look after the Waters of the World.

Warmest regards,  Jaya.

Text version via Academia.edu

I have been contacted by US based production company Mirage Productions International for one of my songs – Sailing – to be used in a DVD recording for war veterans.

Sailing will be heard, and included in a DVD, for the 2011 National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic in San Diego (and also distributed to those veterans unable to attend the event). The purpose of these games (equivalent to an Olympic competition) is to help build self confidence. Many of them have missing limbs, extreme burns or suffer from some sort of trauma

I am very grateful to Wayne Clark (from Mirage Productions) for contacting me, after he spent considerable time on the SoundClick site, looking for ‘just the right piece of music’ to express the emotive appeal of the sailing segment of the games.  It is a great honour to be included as a part of this wondeful inspirational event.

Stay tuned to my professional Facebook Wall for further updates!

I’ve recently returned from India, after representing Fire Water (alongside Daniel Zalec) at the Voices from the Waters 2011, 6th International Film Festival on Water. This was an incredible experience, with many great films represented; we were honoured to be invited and to be sent over on the grace of kind donations.

George Kutty, the Festival Director, should be highly commended for his dedication to the cause of raising awareness about fresh water issues across the globe. We did our absolute best to honourably represent Fire Water and all those involved in the battle against forced fluoridation in Australia. I will be posting footage and other details shortly. Stay tuned to our official Facebook page for updates.

I am now pleased to report that another festival – the third to date – has expressed interest in the project. This time, the interest comes from Italy. Once again, Daniel and I have been encouraged to attend in person.

As noted in The Guardian, “France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Holland have all rejected mass water fluoridation,” thus the potential audience should be highly receptive, as they were in India, to the dangers of fluoride (and associated toxins) in water. Therefore, we believe this is yet another unique and valuable opportunity to raise awareness about Australia’s plight to ensure safe water, free from industrial waste grade fluoride toxins, amongst an international audience.

If you would like to directly assist us to attend the Italian festival, and/or to learn more, please visit our new page on the official Fire Water website. Please send the link to all your contacts.

Maybe our previous association with an Italian pizza shop and and Italian Gelato store has rubbed off!

I urge all safe-water advocates to take their courage in hand, purchase a copy of this DVD; then deliver to their local school library for education purposes.  This action could be repeated for local and community group libraries.

Additionally, your vital purchase of the DVD supports the filmmakers (Jaya Chela Drolma: Producer/Director and  Daniel Zalec: Researcher/Writer) to fund their trip expenses to Bangalore, India (August 26 – 29, 2011) to represent the film at the Voices From the Waters International film festival.  JCD.