DJ Kadagian is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, best-selling author, and quantum economist. His films have aired on PBS, Gaia TV, the Discovery Channel, and Hallmark, as well as being featured at over 120 film festivals around the world. His innovative and thought-provoking works have focused on socioeconomic issues, race relations, religion & spirituality, alternative healing, and poetry. In them, he has collaborated with some of the country’s top philosophers, academics, activists, poets, researchers, and theologians.

 

His first book, The Crossover Experience, which explores the phenomenon of the near-death experience, was released in 2022 and has been an Amazon Best-Seller. His second book, My Very Own Psychedelic Psychotherapy, is a 2023 release and chronicles his experience with psychedelics for psycho-spiritual healing and growth.  His most recent book released in 2024 is entitled RUMI for Kids / and the Young at Heart. This was created in part as a natural compliment to his film series Poetry in Motion, an innovative collection of 21 short films. Each film artfully combines a powerful poem with music and imagery, creating a captivating experience. Among his collaborators on this project are Coleman Barks and Robert Bly, and many of the films feature the profound poetry of Rumi.

 

DJ is a graduate of Cornell University and is a member of The Directors Guild of America and the Authors Guild of America.