Khashyar | October 22, 2010

Dalai Lama Renaissance Film Update: Hollywood Director uses DLR clips, Red Carpet Premiere in Miami, Australia-bound, New York, Toronto and reaching audiences around the world

Dear Friends,

This is Khashyar Darvich, the Producer-Director of the ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ Documentary Film (narrated by Harrison Ford).

With your help and support, ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ continues to reach and positively impact audiences around the world.

Within the next 2 months, the film will screen over 30 times in the United States and Australia, and I will be accompanying each screening to participate in a Q&A with audiences. I hope to meet you at one of the screenings (There will be a schedule of screenings at the bottom of this email).

Thus far, ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ has screened in hundreds of cities around the world, as well as in over 100 cities in the U.S.

There is a lot of exciting news about ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’:

1) Hollywood Director Tom Shadyac uses portions of ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ in his new documentary Film called “I am”:

I first met Tom Shadyac (Director of Hollwood Blockbuster films such as ‘Ace Ventura,’ ‘The Nutty Professor,’ ‘Liar Liar,’ ‘Patch Adams,’ Bruce Almighty,’ and ‘Evan Almighty,’ at the Telluride Film Festival, where he first saw ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance.’

After my Q&A with the audience, he came up to me and said that he really liked the film, and told me that “This film [DLR] has ‘it’.”

And then several months later, I was approached by Tom Shadyac’s company asking if they can use parts of ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ in Tom’s new theatrical documentary film, entitled “I am.”

I am told that they are using 36 seconds of ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ in “I am,” which opened in New York and San Francisco in october, and should be widely screened, probably around the

2) Red Carpet VIP Premiere in Miami, Florida on Oct 28:

In honor of the Dalai Lama’s visit to Miami, there will be a red carpet VIP premiere of ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ (and a Q&A afterwards), in Miami, Florida, on Oct 28 at 6 p.m.

About two weeks ago, I was contacted by one of the groups helping to organize the Dalai Lama’s October visit to Miami, asking if ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ could open a red carpet VIP event, and if I could travel to Miami for a Q&A.

Fortunately, I had a few days free on my U.S. tour schedule, so I agreed, and I will be in Miami from the evening of Oct 25 through Oct 29. (Then I travel to New York for my first of many New York City screenings before I leave for Australia on Nov 22).

More information about the Miami Red Carpet Premiere can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=477112164663

I look forward to meeting everyone from Miami, at the screening.

3) National TV in Spain:

The Spanish National Tv station (TVE) will be broadcasting ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ on TV, in Spanish, to millions of Spanish-speaking audiences members in Spain.

I’m grateful that ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance,’ and the wisdom of the Dalai Lama, continues to reach out into the world and impact more and more people.

4) U.S. and Canada Screenings and Director Q&As: ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’Film and I are appearing at several screenings in the U.S. and Canada from now through Nov 20 (until the film and  I leave for Australia):

Complete schedule and details at: www.DalaiLamaFilm.com/events

10/24/10       Bloomington, Indiana, US      Buskirk-Chumley Theater

10/28/10 – 6:00pm     Miami, Florida, US     Paragon Grove 13

10/30/10 – 4:30pm     New York, NY, US     American Buddhist Study Center

11/03/10 – 7:00pm     Staten Island, NY, US     Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art

11/06/10 – 7:00pm     Toronto, Canada, CA     Canadian Tibetan Cultural Centre

11/07/10 – 7:00pm     Toronto, Canada, CA     Canadian Tibetan Cultural Centre

11/09/10 – 6:30pm     Cumberland, RI, US     Providence Zen Center

11/11/10 – 7:00pm     New York, NY, US     Tibet House US

11/12/10 – 7:00pm     New York, NY, US     New York Insight

11/14/10 – 6:00pm     New York, NY, US     Unity Center of Practical Christianity

11/20/10       Santa Barbara, CA, US      Center of the Heart

11/21/10       Santa Barbara, CA, US      Center of the Heart

I look forward to meeting and speaking with you at one of these screenings… Thank you for forwarding these dates to your friends in these areas.

4) Australian 5 week tour – Nov 26 – Dec 23

After my last Santa Barbara, CA screening on Nov 21, I travel to Australia for the beginning of my 5 week Australian screening and Q&A tour of the ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ Film.

I look forward to meeting and speaking with my Aussie friends there during these dates:

(more dates to be added soon)

11/26/10 7:00pm     Bowral, NSW, Australia, AU     Empire Cinema

11/27/10       Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia, AU      YHA

11/29/10 8:30pm     Manly, Sydney, NSW, Australia, AU     Manly Cinema

12/02/10 6:30pm     Sydney, Australia, AU     Chauvel Cinema

12/03/10       Annandale, Sydney, NSW, Australia, AU      Yoga In Daily Life

12/05/10 3:00pm     Ashfield, Sydney, NSW, Australia, AU     Vajrayana Institute

12/08/10 6:30am     Melbourne, Australia, AU     Palace Kino Cinemas

12/11/10       Richmond, Melbourne, AU      Yoga in Daily Life

12/14/10 6:30pm     Fortitude Valley; Brisbane, Australia, AU     Palace Centro

12/17/10       Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, AU      Chenrezig

12/18/10       Fortitude Valley QLD, 4006, Australia, AU      Yoga In Daily Life

12/20/10 5:00pm     Albany, Western Australia, AU     PCYC

12/21/10 5:00pm     Albany, Western Australia, AU     PCYC

A full list of screenings and details can be found on the Dalai Lama Renaissance Film website events page: DalaiLamaFilm.com/events

I believe that we may be able to accomodate a few more screening dates on the schedule, so if you or your organization in interested in hosting a film screening and Director Q&A, please contact us at: Bookings (att) DalaiLamaFilm (dott) com.

5) UK and Ireland Tour (May and June 2011).

We are planning a UK and Ireland tour of ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ in May and June 2011, and I will be traveling to accompany the film and participate in Q&A’s with audiences afterwards.

Any organization that wants to host a screening and Director Q&A of ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ in May or June, please email us at: Bookings (att) DalaiLamaFilm (dott) com.

Here are the preliminary dates of the tour:

May 1-10 – London

May 10-25 – rest of England

May 26-31 – Scotland

June 1-15 – Ireland

6) DLR to be released widely in Latin America:

I have just finalized and signed the deal for the Latin American and Brazilian release of ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance.’ It should be released in Latin America in early 2011 in both Spanish and Brazilian, so that Spanish and Portuguese speakers will be able to experience the film and the journey or personal transformation that the film portrays. I have been asked to travel to Mexico City for the Latin American premiere of ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance,’ and also possibly to Brazil. I will keep you updated as to dates.

7) DLR and Italy:

Our Italian distributor should be releasing ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ in Italy soon… I will keep you updated.

‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ has been progressing to audiences around the world:

Countries where ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ has already been released or has screened, include:

-Germany, Austria and Switzerland (released widely in cinemas)

-Holland (in the Dutch language)

-Taiwan (in Madarin chinese – it received an overwhelmingly positive reception)

-U.S. and Canada (screened in over 100 cities)

-South Africa

-Paris, France

-Australia (Nov-Dec 2010)

-England (an additional wider screening and Director Q&A tour is planned for May-June 2011)

-Monaco

-Italy (had a sold out 500-seat screening near Venice Italy, and now an Italian distributor is releasing DLR at the end of 2010)

-Czech Republic

-Hungary

-Bahamas

-other countries

Please join Facebook and Twitter pages:

For the very latest information and updates about ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’film (as well as our other new projects including the Dalai Lama prison film, please visit our ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ pages on:

-Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dalai-Lama-Renaissance/34770593391

-Twitter: http://twitter.com/dalailamafilm

-Official Film website: www.DalaiLamaFilm.com

9) New Projects in India and Thailand:

Shhhh… Don’t tell anyone… But I will be traveling to India in January to begin filming a new documentary film on the “Heart Sutra,” which are the core teachings of Buddha…  We also are probably to be filming in Thailand in February for another project about the Meaning of Life. I will of course let you know more.

10) Christmas is coming… Share a ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ DVD swith your friends and family for Christmas… You may receive a Special (unpublished) 20% discount off of the DLR DVDs, here: http://www.dalailamafilm.com/dvd/friend/

I look forward to meeting and speaking with you in person in the near future, whether at a screening of ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ around the world, or whether our lives mysteriously cross paths in this small world, or perhaps in cyberspace.

Thank you for sharing this information about ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ with your friends and family.

Peace and Blessings,

Khashyar Darvich
Producer-Director
‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’
www.DalaiLamaFilm.com

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Khashyar | October 20, 2010

MIAMI, FL – In honor of the Dalai Lama’s Oct 26 visit to Miami, Florida, the ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ Documentary Film (narrated by Harrison Ford) and its Director Khashyar Darvich have been invited to open a red carpet VIP event for the film on October 28.

The organizers of the Dalai Lama’s Oct 2010 visit to Miami, Zen Village of Coconut Grove FL, chose ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ (www.DalaiLamaFilm.com) to open their festival in a red carpet premiere event, which will be held on Thursday October 28 at the Paragon Grove theater in Coconut Grove.

VIP guests, as well as press, are expected to attend the ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ screening and Q&A.

Director Khashyar Darvich will attend several events surrounding the Dalai Lama’s visit, and will lead a Q&A after screening of the film as well as meet with audience members.

On October 28, events will begin at an art gallery a few doors down from the Paragon Grove Theater, where the Venerable Choje Lama Phuntsok Rinpoche, who is the Abbot of Karma Lekshey Ling Academic Monastery in Nepal, will be welcomed at the beginning of a Sand Mandala Ceremony. A cocktail reception will take place during “The Art of Artlessness” Zen art exhibition. A Chinese Dragon Dance will close the reception and lead the group of VIPs and press to the Paragon Cinema, where a red carpet premiere for ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ will open the festival.

‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ and Director Darvich have been chosen and invited by many organizers of visits by the Dalai Lama to screen at Dalai Lama visits and talks, including in Los Angeles, Hungary, Fort Lauderdale, and other cities around the world.

The film has screened in hundreds of cities around the world, and has won 12 awards and is the official selection of over 40 film festivals around the world.

‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ and Director Darvich will be traveling across the U.S. through November 20 to attend several screenings and Q&A’s in New York, Toronto, Indiana, Santa Barbara and Providence (RI).

On November 24, the Film and Director begin a 5 week screening and Q&A tour of Australia. In May and June, ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance’ and Darvich will travel to the UK and Ireland for a film tour.

For more information about the Miami screening and Director Q&A, as well as other screenings on the tour, please visit: www.DalaiLamaFilm.com/events

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Khashyar | March 7, 2010

Date of Visit: Oct 20-22, 2010

Location: Miami University, Oxford, OH

Topic: TBA

Ticket Information: TBA

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama to visit Miami

02.01.2010

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal for championing the people of Tibet, will visit Miami University Oct. 20-22. He will meet with students as well as give a public address.

Miami established a relationship with the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, India, during summer workshops in Tibet led by two faculty in anthropology from 2004-2008. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a patron of this institute, one of the premier institutions for study of Buddhist thought and philosophy.

After university faculty, including Provost Jeffrey Herbst, visited Dharamsala and signed an affiliation agreement, Miami began offering a Tibetan studies semester program last fall. It will be offered annually in the fall.

The Venerable Geshe Kalsang Damdul, from the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, visited Miami and held a prayer flag ceremony here last February to commemorate the affiliation agreement.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the spiritual leader of Tibet, in 1989 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet. He has consistently advocated policies of non-violence and also was the first Nobel Laureate to be recognized for his concern for global environmental problems.

Miami’s summer workshop, Peoples and Culture of Tibet, has been conducted by Deborah Akers and Homayun Sidky in Dharamsala, the residence of the Dalai Lama in northern India, which is the location of the Tibetan government in exile.

In the new Tibetan studies semester program for Miami students in Dharamsala, Miami students can study at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD) and the College for Higher Tibetan Studies (CHTS). Students are offered courses focusing on Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan medicine and meditation and an intensive sequence of language courses in Chinese, Tibetan and Hindi.

Since 1959 the Dalai Lama has received more than 84 awards, honorary doctorates and prizes in recognition of his message of peace, non-violence, inter-religious understanding, universal responsibility and compassion. He has authored more than 72 books.

More details on his visit will be announced next fall.

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