TimesReporter.com
“After watching the film, you come to respect this custodial wisdom, and you recognize that we each have learned lessons from our varied experiences and have a story to tell. Each story is as important a thread in our collective tapestry as the next, and what we do to earn a paycheck does not add [...]
East Bay Express
“Their stories offer a powerful and poignant stew of the rich lives of our ordinary fellow, but often forgotten, humans.”
The Weekly Dig Review of The Philosopher Kings
“A supremely designed, fluent and delicately shot film, The Philosopher Kings is everything that you don’t expect, and nothing that you do.”
Pasadena Weekly Features The Philosopher Kings
“It’s easy to assume that society’s often most underappreciated workers — people like janitors, fry cooks, garbage collectors and security guards — don’t have much to say about life. But… those assumptions couldn’t be more off-base.”
LA Weekly Reviews The Philosopher Kings
“The visuals are crisp, and Shen’s seamless editing creates conversation between his various subjects, as the spoken musing of one plays over the images of another. Kings arcs hard toward its uplifting ending, but it also completely earns it.”
MovieMaker Magazine
“We’re not in the business of screenings, we are in the business of creating unforgettable experiences.”
Cornell Daily Sun
“Filmmakers Patrick Shen and Greg Bennick call this connection between the audience and Evener an example of going from living in a two-dimentional world to living in a three-dimensional one.”
Cornell Alumni Magazine
“The response was overwhelming… A sea of read shirts, standing ovations at both screenings, some of the custodians in tears.”
