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Enjoy this look behind the scenes of Awaken, to meet the musicians who bring the phenomenal music to the film!

Thank you to Director Bob Degus for this opportunity to watch and learn how the music part of the film came to be….

Awaken – The Music – Featurette

Celebrating the Music of the film Awaken
and the musicians.
(in alphabetical order

David Daniel Brown
Diana Carr
Bogdan Djukic
Shireen Jarrahian
Ram Dass Khalsa
Gaiea Sanskrit
Adrienne Shamszad

Awaken is an intense, cautionary cinematic fable, deeply relevant to our times. The film takes a brutal, unflinching look at mankind stripped bare of the thin veneer of social convention. It is a daring, bold, often painful journey into the darkness of our primal, carnal selves, ultimately asking the audience to answer the question “what will it take for us all to awaken?”

GABRIELLE ANWAR
HENRY IAN CUSICK
DAVE BAEZ

Directed by BOB DEGUS
Written by MICHELE McGUIRE
Produced by MICHELE McGUIRE, ALEXANDRA ANGELIQUE LEEPER, JON SILBERG, BOB DEGUS Executive Producer JEFF KNIPP
Director of Photography NATHAN WILSON
Edited by BOB DEGUS and LOGAN BREIT
Music Producer RAM DASS KHALSA
Songs by DIANA CARR, GAIEA SANSKRIT, ADRIENNE SHAMSZAD
Music by DAVID DANIEL BROWN, BOGDAN DJUKIC, SHIREEN JARRAHIAN, and RAM DASS KHALSA
Light Language ABIGAIL STELLAR SHEKINAH
Production Designer JEFF KNIPP
Costume Designer ALYCIA BELLE
A film by BOB DEGUS AWAKEN

Actress Gabrielle Anwar (Jessica) rehearses a scene on the set of the indie-film Awaken, directed by Bob Degus.

Actor Henry Ian Cusick rehearses a scene from the indie-film Awaken, directed by Bob Degus.
Actor Dave Baez (Elias) rehearses a scene on the indie-film Awaken, directed by Bob Degus.

Official Awaken Website

Awaken Film Twitter Page

Awaken Instagram

Ian had his first ever live Instagram chat tonight and it was with Awaken director Bob Degus!

Fans enjoyed listening as both men discussed and reminisced about shooting Awaken (formally known as 9/Tenths) nearly 15 years ago.

For Ian, it was his first film working in the states and it was thanks to Bob, who sponsored him allowing him to get his SAG card.

The film also starred Gabrielle Anwar and Dave Baez.

It’s exciting to know the film will see a re-release with new and previously unseen footage!

Listen below for Ian’s and Bob’s full chat and be sure to visit Awaken on it’s official website: Awaken-film.com

Fans of Henry Ian Cusick may remember an independent film Ian did back in 2006 titled 9/Tenths.

Directed by Bob Degus the film also stars Gabrielle Anwar and Dave Baez.

Considering it’s relevancy to our current times, the film makers have decided to return to the film and have plans to re-cut and re-release it under it’s new name Awaken!

Ian recently tweeted about this, hinting at the re-release:

“Blast from the past or predicting the future? @awaken_film stay tuned!”

Awaken has a brand new website which includes the film trailer, photo gallery, and on set interviews with Ian, Gabrielle and Dave, previously unseen by fans before.

Be sure to visit their site to see all of that and more: Awaken-film.com

For HIC fans, his segments were collected and can be seen here, compliments of Yatanis on Youtube: BTS on Awaken set with Ian

Henry Ian Cusick as William
Gabrielle Anwar as Jessica
Dave Baez as Elias

Awaken on Twitter