admin | February 9, 2012

Coinciding with the Dalai Lama’s 2012 Summer European visit, Dalai Lama Renaissance (narrated by Harrison Ford) and Director Khashyar Darvich travel to the United Kingdom and Europe for an 8 week screening and Director Q&A tour May-June 2012

EUROPE – Can an award-winning film that presents the Dalai Lama’s transformational wisdom in action truly change audiences who watch it? How can the Dalai Lama’s message of compassion lead to a “Quantum Leap” from the head to the heart?

After 12 film festival awards, thousands of screenings around the world, and hundreds of  inspiring filmmaker Q&A’s, audiences this summer in the UK and Europe will experience those answers for themselves, as the Dalai Lama Renaissance Documentary Film and its director Khashyar Darvich travel to the UK and Europe in May 2012 to begin an 8 week UK and European screening and Director Q&A tour, in conjunction with His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visits and teachings in Europe.

Previous organizers of the Dalai Lama’s visits the United States, Canada and around the world have invited Dalai Lama Renaissance and Director Darvich to appear at their events, and their audiences have commented that they have been moved by the experience.

Featuring the Dalai Lama, and narrated by actor Harrison Ford, the film tells the story of 40 Western innovative thinkers who travel to the Himalayan Mountains of India to meet with the Dalai Lama to solve many of the world’s problems. What happened was powerful and unexpected, and was captured by a five camera, 18 person crew.

The film features two of the starring quantum physicists from the hit theatrical documentary What the Bleep Do We Know, Fred Alan Wolf and Amit Goswami. Also appearing in Dalai Lama Renaissance are Michael Beckwith (who appears in The Secret), radio host and author Thom Hartmann, revolutionary social scientist Jean Houston, Vandana Shiva (social activist, The Corporation), and other prominent thinkers.

Amy Wong of LA Yoga Magazine writes: “it is a stunning tour-de-force [and an] intimate glimpse into the Dalai Lama’s life.”

Film Critic John Griffin of the Montreal Gazette calls Dalai Lama Renaissance “a provocative, even enlightening film… fascinating, ravishingly beautiful and sonically soothing.”

Film Threat Magazine’s Rick Kisonak said Dalai Lama Renaissance is a “comedy sensation,” adding, “I can’t remember the last time a movie made me laugh so hard.”

Audiences around the world have shared that the film screening and Q&A by Director Khashyar Darvich is more like a transformational event than just a film screening.

“Be prepared to leave the Dalai Lama Renaissance event a different person than when you first arrived,” commented Debbie from a screening during the film’s Australian’s tour.  “I was thoroughly inspired by both the film and Khashyar Darvich’s Q&A.”

“I look forward to traveling to the United Kingdom and Europe,” says Director Khashyar Darvich, “to share the film with European  audiences, as well as speaking with them about the inner journey of personal transformation, in the presence of the Dalai Lama, that was captured in the film.”

Dalai Lama Renaissance has screened in cinemas in several countries around the world, and will screen during the European tour in English, as well as subtitled in French, Italian and Spanish.

The tentative film tour schedule includes:

May 30 – June 2 – Italy (Milan, Trieste, Rome, Sicily)

June 4-14 – Scotland (Dumfries, Findhorn, Glasgow, Inverness, Edinburgh, Dundee)

June 15-30 – England/Wales (Carlisle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton, Cambridge, Oxford)

July 1-6 – Ireland (Cork, Limerick, Galway, Castlebar, Cavan, Dublin)

July 7-10 – London, England

July 11-31 – Europe

You may watch the trailer for the film, at: www.DalaiLamaFilm.com, or on the film’s Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/DalaiLamaFilm

If you are interested in hosting a film screening and Director Q&A, or know of a cinema or organization that might be interested in hosting a film screening event, please contact Wakan Films at: Bookings (at) DalaiLamaFilm (dot) com.

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Khashyar | September 2, 2010

Dates of Screening: October 24, 2010

Film being screening: Dalai Lama Renaissance Documentary Film, with Director Q&A

Screening Venue: Buskirk-Chumley Theater

Address: Screening Venue Location: Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 East Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN  47408

Website: www.buskirkchumley.org

Contact Name: Trish Ellis

Contact Phone: 812-336-6807

Contact Email: tmbcc.kcl (at) gmail.com

Additional Details: Screening of Dalai Lama Renaissance (Vol 1), and Q&A with Producer-Director Khashyar Darvich. Screening Venue Location: Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 East Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN  47408; Contact Name: Trish Ellis; Contact Email: tmbcc.kcl (at) gmail.com

Sponsoring Organization: TMBCC-KCL (Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Center)

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Khashyar | August 27, 2010

Dates of Screening: October 03, 2010 – 5:00 p.m.

Film being screening: Dalai Lama Renaissance Documentary Film AND ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance Vol 2: A Revolution of Ideas,’ with Director Q&A

Screening Venue: Vets Center Theater

Address: Screening Venue Location: Vets Center Theater, 203 E. 14th St., Davis, CA 95616

Website: www.unityofdavis.org

Contact Name: Dr. Sue Barton

Contact Phone: (530) 867-2528

Contact Email: revlarry (at) unityofdavis (dot) org

Additional Details: Screening of BOTH Dalai Lama Renaissance Vol 1 and 2, and Q&A with Producer-Director Khashyar Darvich. Screening Venue Location: Vets Center Theater, 203 E. 14th St., Davis, CA 95616; Contact Email: revlarry (at) unityofdavis (dot) org

Times:

5-6:30 D.L.R. Volume 1

6:30-7:15 Q and A with Director

7:15-8:00 Intermission

8:00-9:30 D.L.R. Volume 2
Tickets:

$20 both films and Director Q & A

$15 First film and Q & A

$10 Second film (only)

$10 students

Sponsoring Organization: Unity Center of Davis

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Khashyar | August 26, 2010

Dates of Screening: September 15, 2010 – 7:00 p.m.

Film being screening: Dalai Lama Renaissance Documentary Film (narrated by Harrison Ford), with Director Q&A

Screening Venue: University of San Francisco (USF lower campus – Maraschi Room)

Address: Screening Venue Location: University of San Francisco; USF lower campus, Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall, Golden Gate Ave.@ Parker Ave.; San Francisco, CA 94117

Website: www.Friends-of-Tibet.org

Contact Phone: 415-264-3264

Contact Email: giovanni (at) friends-of-tibet.org

Additional Details: Screening of DLR Vol 1 and Q&A with Producer-Director Khashyar Darvich; Screening Venue Location: University of San Francisco; USF lower campus, Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall, Golden Gate Ave.@ Parker Ave.; San Francisco, CA 94117; Contact: Giovanni Vassallo; Contact Phone: 415-264-3264; Website: www.Friends-of-Tibet.org; Contact Email: giovanni (at) friends-of-tibet.org; Screening Sponsors: Bay Area Friends of Tibet & USF’s Prof. John Nelson

$10 suggested donation

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Khashyar | August 26, 2010

Dates of Screening: September 11, 2010; 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Film being screening: Dalai Lama Renaissance Documentary Film AND ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance Vol 2: A Revolution of Ideas,’ with Director Q&A

Screening Venue: Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church

Address: Screening Venue Location: Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church; 55 Eckley Lane; Walnut Creek, CA 94596

Website: www.mtdpc.org

Contact Phone: 925-933-7850

Contact Email: maryalice (at) mtdpc.org

Additional Details: Screening of BOTH Dalai Lama Renaissance Vol 1 and 2, and Q&A with Producer-Director Khashyar Darvich. Screening Venue Location: Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church; 55 Eckley Lane; Walnut Creek, CA 94596; Contact: Mary Alice or Joan; Contact Phone: 925-933-7850; Website: www.mtdpc.org; Contact Email: maryalice (at) mtdpc.org;

Sponsoring Organizations: Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center; Social Justice Council of the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church; Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County; Peace Committee

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Khashyar | August 26, 2010

Dates of Screening: October 10, 2010

Film being screening: Dalai Lama Renaissance Documentary Film AND ‘Dalai Lama Renaissance Vol 2: A Revolution of Ideas,’ with Director Q&A

Screening Venue: Harmonie Haus Cinema

Address: Screening Venue Location: Harmonie Haus Cinema; 515 Main Street; New Harmony, IN 47631

Website: www.bodyworksmassageinstitute.com

Contact Phone: 812-490-9009

Contact Email: cecile (at) bodyworks-massage (dot) net

Additional Details: Screening of BOTH Dalai Lama Renaissance Vol 1 and 2, and Q&A with Producer-Director Khashyar Darvich. Screening Venue Location: Harmonie Haus Cinema; 515 Main Street; New Harmony, IN 47631; Contact: Cecile Martin; Phone: 812-490-9009; Website: www.bodyworksmassageinstitute.com; Contact Email: cecile (at) bodyworks-massage (dot) net

Sponsoring Organization: BodyWorks of Evansville, Indiana

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