Since 2011, c3 honors visionary artists, creators, and cultural innovators whose work embodies the spirit of conscious creativity and points toward a more inspired, compassionate, and connected future.
This year, c3 is delighted to present the 2026 FutureVision Award to Michael and Jahna Perricone, recognizing their extraordinary commitment to exploring the transformative power of music and sound.
Through their pioneering Mindful Sound Journeys, Michael and Jahna create deeply immersive environments that invite audiences to slow down, listen more consciously, and experience sound as a pathway to presence, connection, and wellbeing.
Their artistry was also an integral part of THE JOURNEY, the award-winning immersive fulldome experience created in collaboration with visual artist, Brianna Amore, and Executive Produced by Ed Lantz and Kate McCallum—a work that beautifully embodies c3’s belief in the power of art, music, and immersive storytelling to expand consciousness and touch the human spirit.
The c3 honors Michael and Jahna not only for what they have created, but for the intention behind their creativity—using sound, music, and shared experience to help awaken something deeper within us.
It is our great pleasure to present Michael and Jahna Perricone with the 2026 c3 FutureVision Award.
ILLUMINATE is the world’s leading festival for conscious film and media. We catalyze shifts in consciousness that unlock our greatest human potential to love and serve, lighting the way to a brighter future. Dedicated to sharing enlightened stories that support humanity’s evolution, ILLUMINATE presents an enriching film festival experience while fostering ongoing transformation through year-round programs and its global digital streaming platform.
Danette Wolpert Holman Bio
Danette Wolpert Holman is a visionary entrepreneur, curator, and thought leader in transformational media. She is the Founder and President of the ILLUMINATE Film Festival, the world’s premier festival for conscious cinema. Her focus lies at the intersection of transformational storytelling, human well-being, and community connection, with a commitment to unlocking global human potential by inspiring positive change from within.
Under the ILLUMINATE umbrella, Danette founded the Conscious Film Convergence, the world’s first annual gathering of transformational film creators, producers, distributors, funders and marketers, dedicated to collectively enhancing the quality, quantity, accessibility and impact of transformational storytelling.
Before founding ILLUMINATE Film Festival in 2014, Danette held leadership roles with the Miami International Film Festival, Washington DC’s Screening Room, and the Washington Jewish Film Festival, following an earlier career as a Senior Management Consultant at Ernst & Young. She earned a business degree from the University of Virginia, is a graduate of Mindful NYU’s Inner MBA program, and received the National Association for Women Business Owners Visionary Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.
https://illuminatefilmfestival.com
The SIE Society is the central hub for Social Impact Entertainment, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and Social and Behavior Change Communications (SBCC) companies, organizations, institutions, and professionals.
The SIE Society was founded in 2020 by a team of media and entertainment professionals who have worked to build a community internationally, including work as active members of the UN’s SDG Media Compact. They work with media sectors beyond film and TV, including gaming and theater storytelling. The mission of the SIE Society is to bring together the Social Impact Entertainment community across all media platforms in order to amplify voices, expand resources and opportunities, and involve the next generation of storytellers. The SIES educates, connects, and equips members and newcomers on what is SIE to begin with, how to implement it on your own projects, and how to find allies along the way while fostering diversity, inclusion, and change.
Past recipients include:
The New Thinking Allowed channel on YouTube has been active for the past eight years featuring content about philosophy, psychology, health, science, and spirituality — with a strong emphasis on parapsychology, the esoteric, and the paranormal. Host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. He is the recipient of a doctorate in “Parapsychology” from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Grand Prize winner of the Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding postmortem survival of human consciousness. CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is an intuitive healer and health coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. www.newthinkingallowed.org
Artist and writer, Jeff Hoke, brings esoteric history and concepts to life in the whimsical, yet very informative storyworld of THE MUSEUM OF LOST WONDER. In addition to his years as a museum curator and exhibit designer, Jeff’s interest and study of the perennial wisdom, alchemy, the mystery schools, etc. all comes to life in these magical fictional realms.
Visit:
FutureVision Award 2021From VR headsets to apps and fulldome, technology is helping us achieve meditative states. The 2021 FutureVision Award goes to Nanea Reeves, CEO and Co-Founder of TRIPP, Inc. for her innovative work in transformative tech. TRIPP is no mere meditation app, TRIPP is a fully conscious experience.
Visit www.tripp.com.
FutureVision Award 2020The FutureVision Award for 2020 was given to honor musician and creator, James Hood for his work in this space. The award-winning fulldome show, MESMERICA, has been a testimony to James’ commitment to the creation and distribution of music and art that transforms. The show opened in the Fall of 2018 and was played in over 33 venues in North America prior to COVID. It’s now opening internationally in Dunedin, New Zealand and will continue to be distributed into the future as more theaters become available. For more information about James and the show visit www.mesmerica.com.
STATE OF THE ARTS 2016The STATE OF THE ARTS 2016: A.I. and for Good and Music that Transforms focused on the power of artificial (or machine) intelligence and music to transform our lives and the power of music to transform. From personal wellbeing, to education, arts and healing, this year’s event honored both 2016 FutureVision Awardees; inventor of iWithin, Eric Shuss, and musician and composer, Ricky Kej, a Grammy-nominated composer and creator of Shanti Samsara: World Music for Environmental Consciousness.
FutureVision Award 2015The 2015 State of the Arts Transformational Power of Virtual Reality FutureVision Award was presented to Nonny de la Peña of the Emblematic Group
“Humans have long been able to immerse themselves in other worlds, through oral story or novels, painting, photographs, television, cinema and pure imagination. The mind does not travel alone — the body most certainly comes along for the ride.” – Nonny de la Peña, Co-Founder
When people put on our goggles, they are fully transported to another world.
Emblematic Group is the world’s leading creator of powerful virtual reality experiences. They immerse audiences in the story, making them feel like they are in the middle of the action.
The award-winning work has excited audiences internationally and has been featured in WIRED, BBC, MIT Technology Review, Mashable, The Huffington Post, Verge, and The Los Angeles Times. Emblematic has also created experiences for Standard Chartered Bank, the World Economic Forum the Tribeca Film Foundation and Al Jazeera America.
Fast Company named CEO Nonny de la Peña “One of the Thirteen People Who Made the World More Creative” for her work pioneering the field. Michael Licht, President of Emblematic, offers 15 years of gaming industry experience, working at places like EA, Lucas Arts, Disney and others.
FutureVision Award 2014The 2014 FutureVision Award was given to the team who created Mindfulness in the Virtual World — a mindfulness training program created and presented in Second Life. Working with Mindfulness experts Dr. Steven Hickman and Allan Goldstein from the Center for Mindfulness, UCSD, Dr. Jacki Morie and team have adapted traditional Mindfulness classes to Virtual Worlds so people can attend them from their homes using a personal avatar. The Mindfulness and Virtual World experts are currently supporting a longitudinal study being done by Dr. Valerie Rice, Chief of the Army Medical Department.
Field Element at Ft. Sam Houston TX, to evaluate whether this online method has the same benefits for mindfulness students as physical-based classes, which have evidence-based validity for their effectiveness in lessening stress, helping with chronic pain and dealing with long term illnesses.
FutureVision Award 2013Karim Ahmad is the Senior Digital Content Strategist at ITVS, where he oversees digital content funding initiatives, portfolio development, and alignment to company objectives. He’s the creator and Series Producer of the acclaimed web series FUTURESTATES, and develops both non-fiction and fiction digital content for ITVS from concept through distribution. Mr. Ahmad is also an independent cross-platform writer and producer, currently developing a portfolio of feature films, comic books and interactive media. He previously served as Feature Development Director at San Francisco production company Momentum Cinema, where he wrote and produced the award-winning narrative feature film Harrison Montgomery, starring Oscar-winner Martin Landau. Mr. Ahmad has served as a panelist/juror for numerous film funders and festivals, worked extensively as an independent story consultant, and received his BA from Pomona College.
American society is in the midst of some of the most profound and fastest-moving change in its relatively short history. We face a paradox of great challenges and great opportunities. In response to this rapidly shifting landscape, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) asked both renowned and emerging filmmakers to make their voices heard – to take the current state of affairs in the United States, and extrapolate them into stories of the nation in the not-so-distant future. The result is FUTURESTATES, a series of groundbreaking digital shorts and interactive media projects. Each episode presents a different filmmaker’s vision of American society projected forward, fusing an exploration of social issues with elements of speculative and science fiction. We invite the public to join the discussion about what the future holds: Will you let it happen, or will you make it happen? Nothing is inevitable but the future…
FutureVision Award 2012The 2012 FutureVision Award was presented to the team that created MYTHIC CHALLENGES, first hatched in the 2011 State of the Arts FutureVision Think Tank that preceeded the symposium. Creators Brian Dyer, Pamela Smith and Jill Gurr teamed up to create a project that would address The Millennium Project’s 15 Global Challenges through storytelling and mythology.
They teamed up and collaborated with Evelyn Subert and James Gleason who run the Media Lab at Grover Cleaveland High School in Reseda, California.
Evelyn also concurrently partnered with the State Department who introduced them to students in Afghanistan. Together the students in California and the students in Afghanistan worked together remotely to create 7 powerful films.
For more information:
consciouscreativity.com/millennium-project/mythic-challenges and mythicchallenges.com for information.
FutureVision Award 2011The first c3 FutureVision Award was initially presented at the 2011 State of the Arts “Producing Change” symposium which was co-produced in association with the Producers Guild of America New Media Council. Writer/Producer/Director Tim Kring (creator of the TV Series “Touch” and “Heroes”) was acknowledged as recipient of the award for his innovative project CONSPIRACY FOR GOOD www.conspiracyforgood.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_For_Good states:
“Conspiracy For Good is a fictional organisation that is part of an “augmented reality drama” game developed by Heroes creator Tim Kring, funded and technologically-enabled by Nokia and realised by The company P, and over 100 people in production teams in five different countries.
In 2010, London witnessed the launch of the Conspiracy For Good, a radical new form of entertainment called “Social Benefit Storytelling,” which allowed for people to participate inside a fictional story… to do real good in the real world.
The pilot spanned the globe and culminated with 4 weeks of live events and gameplay in London streets.
As a result, the Conspiracy For Good succeeded in building/stocking 5 libraries in Africa, funding 50 scholarships for schoolgirls and generating over 10,000 books for the Zambian libraries through WeGiveBooks.org.
On February 22, 2011 the Conspiracy For Good was nominated for an International Digital Emmy® Award.”
