“An ode to the counterculture’s well-intentioned ethos and the dubious conduct it spawned, Mellen’s film is the rare documentary to function as time capsule, philosophical inquiry, and rollicking thriller all at once.” (The Daily Beast)

Tim Scully was a quiet science prodigy from California. Nick Sand was a huge personality from Brooklyn. And in the late ’60s, this unlikely pair of self-proclaimed “spiritual warriors,” sharing a utopian vision for a peaceful world, decided to save the planet, one trip at a time. At the heart of the 1960s counter culture, they manufactured (and consumed) a massive amount of acid, including the gold standard “Orange Sunshine,” all while staying one step ahead of the Feds. The Sunshine Makers is a light and lively telling of their stranger-than-fiction adventures, a real-life Breaking Bad for the psychedelic set.