A film about transformation and the untapped intelligence within us.
Help us bring this documentary to life.

***WE RECOMMEND WATCHING OUR CAMPAIGN VIDEO ABOVE BEFORE READING ON!***

As of today, we have raised
🔥 €39,861 🔥
(50% of the €79,075 goal!)

🎉 UPDATE: The Filmed Workshop at Afroz is Officially Happening!!

We did it!! This campaign launched with an urgent sub-goal of €34,938 to fund the filmed workshop at Afroz, Greece — the heart of this film and the component with the hardest deadline. We are thrilled to announce that we have reached this sub-goal (with 5 days to spare! Can you believe it?!! 😱🔥🎉). The workshop shoot is therefore confirmed, and this film is being made!!

Thank you to every single person who made this happen. WE ARE BEYOND GRATEFUL (and excited!)! 🙏

We still have a ways to go, however. Our total goal is €79,075, which covers the full scope of Phase 1 production, including scheduled shoots across Europe. Every contribution from here on brings us closer to completing the vision.

Direct/PRIVATE Contributions

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WE WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU COULD DONATE DIRECTLY TO AVOID UNNECESSARY FEES: Crowdfundr (8%), Stripe (1.5-5.25%, depending on your location).

Every direct donation will be credited and reflected in the Crowdfundr total within 24 hours of deposit. Let Kaley at kaley@lionwithin.studio know whether you'd like to be credited by name or listed as anonymous.

You can contribute directly via bank transfer using the details below: 

• Euros (EUR) via Wise:

  • Name: Kaley Dae Hanson

  • IBAN: BE27 9674 7664 9373

  
  US Dollars (USD):

  • Zelle : kaleydaefilm@gmail.com

  • Venmo : @kaleydae

  • Stripe: @lionwithin

  
  British Pounds (GBP) via Wise:

  • Name: Kaley Dae Hanson

  • Sort code: 23-14-70

  • Account number: 94630475

  • Address: Wise Payments Limited, 1st Floor, Worship Square, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE, United Kingdom

  
  Australian Dollars (AUD) via Wise:

  • Name: Kaley Dae Hanson

  • BSB code: 774-001

  • Account number: 245402850

  • Address: Wise Australia Pty Ltd, Suite 1, Level 11, 66 Goulburn Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia

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“Donation – Name – Email Address”

Every direct donation will be credited and added to the Crowdfundr page within 48 hours of deposit. Let Kaley at kaley@lionwithin.studio know whether you'd like to be credited by name or listed as anonymous.

If you have any questions regarding the tax status of your donation, particularly for larger contributions, please reach out to Kaley.

And if you experience any technical difficulties with the donation process, please don't hesitate to contact her as well.

For large-scale sponsorships, organizational partnerships, or direct inquiries, please contact Kaley at kaley@lionwithin.studio.

The Story

Jennifer Millar grew up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, navigating early traumatic experiences, and a profound personal crisis before she was twenty. In search of healing, she found a psycho-spiritual path that would change the course of her life. What began as her own journey gradually became something far larger: a body of work she has spent almost two decades developing, refining, and sharing with hundreds of people around the world.

That work is called Cellular Transformation®.

Cellular Transformation, also known as CT, is a psycho-spiritual modality that works with stored trauma, conditioning, and fear held in the cells of the body. It draws on a deep well of philosophy, practice, and lived wisdom around trauma healing, personal power, conscious communication, and spiritual intelligence. It does not skim the surface. It goes straight to the heart of the issue, working with an innate intelligence that transforms pain and limitation at the cellular level. The result is not just healing, but a genuine shift in how a person experiences themselves and their life: more clarity, more purpose, more capacity for connection, and a deeper sense of their own power.

This documentary is not simply a portrait of Jennifer, nor a record of a workshop. It is an attempt to bring this entire body of work to the screen: its origins, its philosophies, its practices, and what it looks like when a person truly lives it. We go back to Ireland, to the early experiences that shaped her. We follow the years of inner upheaval and transformation that led her to build something entirely new. And we witness the work itself, in the room where the magic happens.

This is a story about what becomes possible when trauma is met not with management, but with genuine transformation at its root.

Why This Film

There is no shortage of approaches to healing right now. Therapy, meditation, somatic work, spiritual practice. And yet for so many people, something remains stuck. The mind understands the wound, story gets reframed, symptoms get managed. But the core of the issue stays untouched.

Most approaches work at the level of the mind. Cellular Transformation works deeper: with the stored trauma, fear, and conditioning that live not in our thoughts, but in our cells, our DNA.

The philosophies woven into this work around trauma, power, conscious communication, and the relationship between body and spirit are not yet part of the broader cultural conversation or mainstream psychotherapy, not in trauma research, not in modern spirituality. We believe they should be.

The Work is the closest reference point we have found: a documentary that pulled back the curtain on a therapeutic space to let the world see something that had only ever existed in private. We are setting out to do something similar. Because what happens in a CT workshop is extraordinary, and it has, until now, only ever existed within the privacy of that space.

This film is an attempt to change that.

The Film

Directed by Kaley Hanson, Jennifer's stepdaughter and a documentary filmmaker based in Amsterdam, the film moves across several interwoven layers:

The woman behind the work. We return to Ireland to explore the formative experiences that shaped Jennifer, and trace the arc of transformation that led her to birth Cellular Transformation. 

The philosophies and practices. At the centre of this film is the work itself: its core ideas, its approach to trauma, power, the body, and spiritual intelligence. Explored not as concepts to be explained, but as lived realities through Jennifer's life, her teaching, and the experiences of those who have moved through the process.

The workshop. We will be filming a full 5-day CT workshop, bringing cameras into a space that has remained private until now. This is where the work becomes visceral and real on screen, where people come to break old patterns and step into a fuller experience of being human.

The ripple effect. Through the people whose lives have been transformed by CT, including trained facilitators who now carry this work forward, we see what becomes possible when this kind of healing moves outward into the world.

Kaley's perspective threads through the film as someone who grew up inside this world, offering an intimate lens on a story she knows from the inside.

Where We Are

This project is in its early stages, and this campaign is where it begins. This is Phase 1 of 3. Phase 1 covers the workshop in Greece, the Europe tour, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with CT facilitators and participants. Phase 2, planned for next year, takes us to Ireland and into Jennifer's home life in Texas. Phase 3 is post-production: editing, finishing, and the film festival run. Each phase will have its own fundraiser. This campaign funds Phase 1.

The workshop has already been scheduled for filming in Greece. Beyond that, production includes location shoots in Ireland and Spain, and interviews with CT facilitators and participants. The workshop shoot is the most expensive single component and the one we most urgently need funding toward. Without it, this film cannot be made. Post-production will be covered through a separate fundraiser.

We are asking for help to get this off the ground, and we are grateful for every contribution that makes it possible.

Budget

We are transparent about the fact that this is a substantial sum. It reflects what it genuinely takes to make a documentary of this quality and scope. Every euro goes directly into making this film.

Campaign Timeline

The total production budget for Phase 1 is approximately €79,075. The heart of this phase is the filmed workshop at Afroz, Greece, which accounts for €34,938 of that total and covers the full crew, specialist equipment and transportation. Beyond the workshop, this budget covers the filming of Jennifer’s Europe tour, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with CT facilitators and location sponsors, along with a director stipend for twelve months of full-time work.

Making this film is a full-time commitment for the next year for Kaley: research, travel, and shooting. The director's stipend works out to just over 1,500 euros a month, which means every bit of energy goes into making this film the best it can be.

Film production is unpredictable… locations fall through, equipment breaks, schedules shift. This contingency ensures that when the unexpected happens, we can handle it without cutting into the quality of the film.

Support the Film

If this project speaks to you, your support means everything. And if you know someone who might want to be part of bringing this work into the world, please pass this along.

The Team
Filmmakers

Subject

The CT Facilitators

A group of trained facilitators has grown around Cellular Transformation over the years, each bringing their own story of transformation and their own relationship to this work. We will be interviewing them throughout the film as voices that illuminate what this process means from the inside.

See the Work for Yourself

Before this documentary, we made a short film: Cellular Transformation: A Story Told by Those Who Live It. It does not attempt to explain CT. It offers something closer to a felt sense of it, through the voices of people who have experienced it firsthand.

If you want to understand why this documentary needs to exist, this is the best place to start.