SADHAKA: the yoga of B.K.S. Iyengar is a feature documentary about BKS Iyengar's practice, life and influence. The film is currently in post–production.

BKS Iyengar is widely acknowledged as the world’s most influential Yoga Teacher. Included by Time Magazine in its list of the worlds most influential people, BKS Iyengar, now in his 94th year, has been awarded the equivalent of a knighthood by the Indian Government and many honorary doctorates from universities around the world. His many books are published worldwide, his yoga practice is legendary, and his financial resources are used to support schools and a hospital in his birth village in Southern India.

Sadhaka is a feature documentary about BKS Iyengar’s practice, life and influence by award winning director Jake Clennell. Three years of filming has been completed; we now need the funds to finish the film.

By contributing to the funding you will help us finish this important film which is sure to touch the hearts, affect the lives and and enhance the wellbeing of many people around the world for many years to come.

This is a not-for-profit production. Proceeds from sales and screenings will go to the Bellur Project, BKS Iyengar's foundation which supports education, medical care and clean drinking water in Iyengar's birthplace, Bellur Village.

Please check out the trailer — it's 22 minutes long and gives a good idea of the film — and please donate.

Kokoyakyu

Director: Keneth Eng

Producer: Alex Shear

Production company: Projectile Arts 

Director of Photography & Field Director: Jake Clennell

This award winning film takes Western viewers inside a never-before-seen

world, "Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball" follows two schools of the 4,000 in 

Japan striving to make it to the National Championships at Koshien Stadium.   

Much more just than a game, this martial arts baseball has a deep.er purpose:

the forging of the spirit.Through the stories of two schools, the film brings 

audiences inside this closed world where an American game has become a 

Japanese discipline

Cinematographer for American evangelical sequences: Jake Clennell

God Loves Uganda explores the role of the American

evangelical movement in Uganda, where American

missionaries have been credited with both creating

schools and hospitals and promoting dangerous religious bigotry.

The film follows evangelical leaders in America and

Uganda along with politicians and missionaries as

they attempt the task of eliminating “sexual sin” and

converting Ugandans to fundamentalist Christianity.

Feature Documentary

The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief

Director Producer: Jake Clennell

Director of Photography: Jake Clennell

Production company: Clennell Films & Pimlico Pictures

Awards: Winner Best Documentary Feature Award Edinburgh International Film 

Festival 2006: British Independent Film Awards Nominee : IFP Gotham Award

Nominee: IDA Distinguished Feature Documentary Nominee: Best Documentary

Feature Award AFF Dallas 2006

Director of Photography for Studio Interviews: Jake Clennell

RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military.  This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you.

Director of Photography: Jake Clennell

With unexpected humor, with an unflinching camera, with some guilt and some pain, this film takes the unusual risk of examining what breast milk truly means.

We are often told that breast milk is better. Better for babies, better for mothers, better for nutrition, health, well-being, and society. Many accept this and yet there are still very few women who succeed in breastfeeding exclusively for the recommended six months and beyond.

What would it take to change?

Set for national theatrical release in 2014