ORANGE SUNSHINE Captures the 60’s LSD Boom with Dir. William Kirkley

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ORANGE SUNSHINE, The never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in Southern California that became the largest suppliers of psychedelic drugs in the world during the 1960s and early 1970s. Bonded by their dreams to fight social injustice and spread peace, this unlikely band of free-spirited idealists quickly transformed into a drug-smuggling empire and at the same time inadvertently invented the modern illegal drug trade. At the head of the Brotherhood, and the heart of this story, is the anti-capitalistic husband and wife team, who made it their mission to change the world through LSD.

William Kirkley’s first film, Excavating Taylor Mead, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was called “One of the top 10 films to see in 2005″ by Artforum Magazine. It was later included in that year’s Whitney Biennial. Orange Sunshine is his second feature-length documentary. William currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.