![News Added Nov 06, 2016 After seven years of work completing a “fun drug-smuggling tale” about the LSD-deifying Brotherhood of Eternal Love from Laguna Beach, documentary filmmaker William Kirkley canned the whole thing. He had finally found the real story within the story, and started over, all of it at his own expense. It took […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cover600x600-1-320x320.jpeg "Matt Costa : Orange Sunshine OST")
After seven years of work completing a “fun drug-smuggling tale” about the LSD-deifying Brotherhood of Eternal Love from Laguna Beach, documentary filmmaker William Kirkley canned the whole thing.
He had finally found the real story within the story, and started over, all of it at his own expense.
It took him another three years to capture the twist of fate that underpinned the Brotherhoods’ nearly 20-year outlaw movement for cultural change. There was more to the story than world peace on LSD. There was a love story.
Kirkley shooting at a drug-lab set with musician Matt Costa depicting an LSD lab tech. Costa also composed the “Orange Sunshine” soundtrack.
The documentary, “Orange Sunshine, the True Story of Friends, Family and One Hundred Million Hits of Acid,” opens at the Newport Beach Film Festival, April 23 and 26. Many of the real people the film is based on are expected to gather for a Brotherhood reunion at both screenings.
Nearly 30 percent of the movie is scripted re-enactments, Kirkley said in an interview this week, since drug smugglers are notoriously camera-shy and little archival material is available.
