Lion

It was late at night and I was driving my bike on the road with members of my community. We were on a mission. It had something to do to abolish the old system, and to create something completely new. The circumstances were rough, and we were driving in some sort of dessert or savanna. I felt this anxiety on the air and people started whispering “It’s coming, be careful!”. I also had the exhilarating feeling that something wild is coming.

Suddenly a lion came from the shadows and jumped into the road along with other animals. He run very fast until reaching and entering a moving bus on the right side of the road. The bus was full of passengers and many people got scared. I saw him and I got scared too, but suddenly I saw myself inside the bus trying to shot him with a gun that appeared on my hand. I pointed to his head from behind. He turned his head and he fiercely looked at me. His eyes were on fire. I quickly pulled the trigger between his eyes but it didn’t work. the gun was a useless toy… 

I felt a cold and wet wave of fear travelling my body: ‘I have to face him now and he’s more alive than any other being there´ I thought, and then I realized: I am the lion.

No one to kill.

My core gift is helping others to embrace a grounded spirituality, equally loving our divinity and humanity. I give it by helping people to embody their feelings through different art expressions, beauty and creativity, playing with ideas and words as well as movement practices, proving how intensity is the juice of life, and how compassion is the ingredient that will heal humanity.

Valentina B. Sepulveda is young awarded Chilean filmmaker, writer, and dancer, currently living in India.
She graduated from Film Direction and Social Communication at Universidad Católica de Chile in 2014. Since then, she has been working as a writer, director, and editor of documentaries and experimental films. She also worked as a producer and assistant director in fiction pieces, as a producer in Chilemonos International Animation Film Festival, and as a cinema teacher at the same university where she obtained her degrees, before she left her country to join Auroville International Community. From 2018 until the beginning of 2020, she has worked as a video maker, photographer, and writer for different media units, and from the pandemic onwards she has been exploring different expressions, building up her start-up renaissance company, Ineffable Films Lab from where she plays, experiment and produce projects around movement, dance, poetry, photography and film.