Samsara: the Movie

Coming very soon, from the director of Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi…

http://barakasamsara.com/

Crazy Wisdom @ VIFF

Review from The Province: http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/VIFF+Waking+love/5533449/story.html

The movie “Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche” is also a potential candidate for entry in the Arclight Documentary Film Festival, if enough of the public “Like” it on the Arclight YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZRiE7C_Ac

“Crazy Wisdom” Trungpa movie @ Atlantic Film Festival

Review from the Halifax Chronicle Herald: http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1263838.html

Vancouver Gala Première – Journey of a Dream: 9.16/17.11

Journey of a Dream is a heavy metal story of a Tibetan refugee, directed by Shenpenn Khyamsar (who lives in Vancouver).  It is a feature length documentary that will take audiences on an epic, global journey into heavy metal music, exile, Buddhism and Tibetan roots.

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Glenn Mullin in Mongolia

Glenn Mullin is a Canadian Buddhist author, teacher and tour guide living in Mongolia. Here he is in a humorous but fascinating video tour of Erdeni Zuu Monastery in Mongolia:

Kidding aside, however, Glenn has been involved in more than 20 Buddhist-inspired development . . . Read More.

A Song for Tibet: NFB online

Ann Henderson’s 1991 film, A Song for Tibet, is available for free online viewing through the National Film Board of Canada’s website: http://www.nfb.ca/film/a_song_for_tibet/

It lends an important contextual perspective to Québec film-maker Geneviève Brault’s new film, Tibet: Land of the Brave, premiering this month (see . . . Read More.

“Tibet: Home of the Brave” Montréal première 9.9.11

From the film’s website, http://tibetterredesbraves.net/en/accueil/

A cinematic journey to one of the most remote places on the planet, Tibet: Land of the Brave transports the audience into the everyday lives of Tibetan herders, seen through the eyes of Gyamtso, Marijo and their daughter, Yangchen. Following . . . Read More.

U of T Film & Workshop Series: Doc Film in Tibet & Burma

New Voices, New Visions: Film & Workshop Series on Documentary Film in Tibet and Burma

On February 18-20, 2011, the University of Toronto’s Department for the Study of Religion has organized a showcase of films by emerging Tibetan and Burmese filmmakers. Filmmakers will be in . . . Read More.

Chogyam Trungpa documentary premieres in Halifax

Grant MacLean’s new documentary about Chogyam Trungpa’s 1959 escape from Tibet premiered recently in Halifax. You can find out more about the movie, and watch it online, on the Shambhala Sun blog site: http://www.shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=20332

Dalai Lama Renaissance film in Montreal

Dalai Lama Renaissance film in Montreal . . . Read More.

Dalai Lama Renaissance film in Toronto

The Canadian Tibetan Cultural Centre in Toronto is hosting several screenings of this wonderful movie, narrated by Harrison Ford: November 6 + 7, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

The producer, Khashyar Darvich, is looking for opportunities to screen it in other cities as well, after . . . Read More.

New “Movies” tag

We’ve begun tagging old posts about Buddhist movies and videos with a “Movies” tag to make them easier to find. Process should be completed in a few days.

Martha Grey Buffalo on YouTube

Martha is a 19-year-old Native Canadian from Edmonton. She has inspired many with her Facebook photo galleries of pow wow dancers and singers, and of Tibetan-Canadian events, showing some striking parallels between these two cultures.

Now she has launched a . . . Read More.

China’s Leap of Faith

Veteran Canadian film-makers Robin Benger and Christopher Sumpton, of Cogent/Benger Productions, have produced an excellent two-part documentary entitled China’s Leap of Faith, about that country’s amazing resurgence of religious practice in the face of Communist atheism.

Part One: The Gods . . . Read More.

Breaking the Silence

This new film by Canadian film-makers Pierre Mignault and Hélène Magny explores the face of non-violent resistance in Burma today. They recently received accolades for their work after the film’s first English-language presentation in Thailand recently.

More on this story at: . . . Read More.

Life with death

Stephen Jenkinson is a Canadian counsellor who specializes in death. The NFB recently made a movie, called Griefwalker, about his work…

http://www.nfb.ca/film/griefwalker-trailer/

His website is www.orphanwisdom.com

Fierce Light

Velcrow Ripper’s Toronto-based film production company specializes in documentaries about the integration of spirituality and activism.

Fierce Light – the movie trailer

Also from Velcrow Ripper:

Prayers for Bat Nha, a short documentary (Fierce Light . . . Read More.

Dramgyen – The Lute

Endless Knot Films  is a Tibetan-Canadian production company.www.endlessknotfilms.com

Dramgyen – The Lute is a short film they made about the Tibetan-Canadian immigrant experience. You can watch it online at http://www.endlessknotfilms.com/ekf/dramgyen.html

Champion of Compassion is their documentary of the . . . Read More.