HELLO AND WELCOME to the official website of Marbles with Thoreau, an award-winning short film inspired by Henry David Thoreau's classic book, Walden. July 28, 2010-- Latest news! Writers Melody George and Rajeev Sigamoney have completed the feature-length script. Now begins the process of bringing Marbles to the screen as a full-length movie. We welcome your collaboration! If you're interested in being involved, visit the "feature" page for more information. March, 2010-- We've completed our festival run after screening in San Diego, LA, Boston, and Indianapolis. Marbles was awarded the CRYSTAL HEART AWARD at the 2009 Heartland Film Festival and BEST SHORT at Boston Film Festival! Congratulations to the team!

Copies of Marbles will be available soon. Stay tuned! Several resources are available for educators looking to bring Thoreau to life in the classroom. Take a look at our educational packages. (COMING SOON) Thank you so much to our generous supporters who have made both the short film and the feature script possible. If you'd like to make a tax-deductible donation toward our current development costs for the feature film, click here.

Ace and Eva Calloway, two children living in the slums just outside a small town in Massachusetts, run off one day to explore the woods near Walden Pond. They stumble across an old cabin hidden deep in the forest. Creeping closer they soon discover that the cabin is in fact occupied. They have just made the acquaintance of none other than Henry David Thoreau. As Ace and Eva enter the whimsical world of this 19th century genius, they live in the midst of poverty. Thoreau endeavors to show them that they are rich already, "if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days," and to teach them how to "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."

Henry David Thoreau – American author, essayist, poet, and philosopher – was born July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. At an early age Thoreau developed a deep appreciation for the beauty and solitude of nature. In 1845 he built a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond, where he began his famous “experiment” in living. For a period of two years he lived alone, worked the land, and survived on as little money as possible, wishing to have his time free and clear to study, write, and mediate. He recorded his experiences in Walden, now a masterpiece in American literature. “I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear,” he writes. “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.” Walden was an inspiration to Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and thousands of others around the world. Thoreau’s additional literary works fill over twenty volumes.

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau