THE UK PREMIERE OF DALAI LAMA RENAISSANCE

Dates: Thursday 15th & Friday 16th November 2007

Time: 8.30pm

Venue: Central Hall, Westminster

Street: Storey's Gate (opposite Westminster Abbey)

City: London SW1H 9NH

Nearest public transport: Westminster Underground

Doors open from 8.00pm

Tickets: £8 - Advance bookings:  www.bethechange.org.uk or 0845 4585925

                                                       THE PREMIERE

The filmmaker, Khashyar Darvich (Producer-Director) will introduce this inspiring documentary, narrated by Harrison Ford, as part of the Be the Change ‘The Sky’s The Limit’ 3 day conference towards a blueprint for a sustainable future, this year dedicated to Anita Roddick.

                                                              REVIEWS

“A revelatory documentary” Kyoto Journal

A provocative, even enlightening film” Montreal Gazette

LINKS

http://www.bethechange.org.uk

http://www.dalailamafilm.com/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0953363/

http://www.dalailamafilm.com/synopsis.html

http://www.dalailamafilm.com/trailer.html

SYNOPSIS

This is a revelatory documentary about the "Everyman" journey from egocentric consciousness to something more sublime. The film follows forty global experts in their fields who travelled to Dharamsala to advise the Dalai Lama. The first scenes reveal a hilariously clashing hootenanny of mild-mannered Engaged Buddhists, solemn Catholics, gabby physicists intent on demonstrating the convergence of quantum physics with ultimate reality, New Agers dressed in purple, social change visionaries, and progressive economists, all engaged in "synthesizing" and "witnessing" brain-storming to collect all their brilliant ideas to present to the fourteenth Dalai Lama. This well-educated and well-mannered group then revolted against their endlessly patient facilitators, in a gray-haired inverse variation of the "Lord of the Flies." Throughout the chaos that ensued, each player was shown as confronting her or his own ego, as much as they confronted the facilitators and fellow participants. Their conflicts with each other, and most of all, with their own egos were actually uplifting, as they struggled to be truthful and respectful while their "bubbling over" clashed with the facilitators' attempts to create some order out of the unwieldy explosion of dialogue.