“SEX+50” marks Betsy Pool’s documentary directorial debut. She is a filmmaker and activist who is based in the celebrated spiritual eco-community, Damanhur in Northern Italy. She also works closely with the Peace Research Community, Tamera, in Portugal. Her core passion is working with mature women to help them recapture and express their innate erotic nature and then to connect this energy into social change.
With more than three decades in the entertainment industry, Betsy began her career working as a lighting designer on Broadway as part of the Tony Award-winning design teams for “Sunday in the Park With George,” and “Les Misérables,” a show she was responsible for recreating worldwide for a decade, before segueing into television. She spent a year as the official directing observer on “Law and Order,” before shifting her focus to film.
Following a move to Los Angeles, she co-founded Watermark Films and wrote the Diane Thomas Award-winning screenplays “Rowdy Boys” and “En Chant,” and co-wrote and produced the AIDS activism feature film “The Unknown Cyclist,” nominated for a GLAAD Award and winner of a SHINE media award as best picture.
In 2009 she and her family relocated to Northern Italy, where they became the first American family to settle in Damanhur. After five years, as the Director of Integrated Media Strategy for the community, Betsy co-founded The Institute for the Mythology of Humanity. The core mission of the Institute is the assembly and diffusion of a core mythology that represents global consciousness.
Betsy splits her time between Damanhur and Graz, Austria, where she is the co-director of Wake Up! Association for the Advancement of Consciousness, a consulting organization working with companies and individuals to address shifts towards social and environmental sustainability.
Betsy also produces and hosts the YouTube series, Confessions of a Time Monk, which features interviews with researchers and scientists who work on the frontiers of human consciousness.