Peace Walker is a hybrid film and the story of a creative journey to the United Kingdom to make a film about world peace. Originally inspired by Peace Pilgrim, a woman who walked for peace for 28 years, director Tara Golden conceived of the idea of a film that would combine a narrative story line and a documentary journey. The idea was an attempt to mix the powerful story of a man who does a peace walk with the real life adventure of walking every step of way through Scotland and England. The plan was to meet interesting local characters along the 1100 mile hike and to integrate them into the story, and it worked, up until a point.

Chase Korte, an actor from LA was cast as Ray, a man who loses his brother in the Iraq war and who is spiritually moved to make a peace pilgrimage.

The hike started well in John O'Groats on June 5th but along the way we faced conflict, creative differences and a car accident. Two crew members decided not to go on further than Glasgow. With only two of us left we found that we were not able to make the film as planned and restructured the film as a documentary.

The film evolved into the intertwining of the two journeys. Ray has the spiritual adventure of taking the steps to a life of service. The walk of Tara and Chase was the challenging day to day reality of the real problems and people we encountered along the way.

We invite you to watch A Single Step. You can find additional clips from the film at youtube.com under taragolden. A current blog can be found on myspace.comdoornumberthreefilms