My Reincarnation, the new film by award-winning director Jennifer Fox, is held over in the San Francisco Bay area and is now booked in 30 cities.
The film continues in New York at Cinema Village and in several other cities around the country. Over twenty cities have booked the film for December and January.
Working with over a thousand hours of remarkable footage taken over an unprecedented twenty year span with extraordinary access to Tibetan Buddhist teacher Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, My Reincarnation is the intimate story of a father and son, tradition and change, dreams and realities, destiny and desire, and Tibetan Buddhism in the contemporary world.
Director Jennifer Fox is a veteran world-class filmmaker with a number of award-winning productions to her credit including Beirut: The Last Home Movie, An American Love Story and Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman.
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Summer Pasture
Nominated for a 2010 Spirit Award: Truer Than Fiction
Summer Pasture opens in LA on Friday, September 16, 2011 at Laemmle’s Music Hall 3. Filmed on location in eastern Tibet, this feature-length documentary will be qualified for consideration for a documentary Academy Award.
For screening times and theater location, visit Laemmle Theatres.
The film is a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of a young couple and their infant daughter during a time of great transition. Locho and Yama are nomadic herders who carve their existence from the land as their ancestors have for generations. But now, as traditional nomadic life confronts rapid modernization, Summer Pasture captures a family at a crossroads, ultimately revealing the profound sacrifice they will make to ensure their daughter’s future.
The filmmakers will be in attendance at many screenings. For venues, screening times and tickets, visit the official website.
Summer Pasture
a film by Lynn True, Nelson Walker and Tsering Perlo
USA, China, Tibet / 2010 / 85 min / Tibetan with English subtitles
Summer Pasture is a production of the Kham Film Project, an organization of American and Tibetan filmmakers working together on documentary and participatory video projects that convey contemporary stories and experiences from inside Tibet.
For more information about the film and to learn about their other projects in Tibet, please visit khamfilmproject.org
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives begins US Release
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the new film from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is still in US theaters over four months after its release. The film began its US theatrical release March 4, 2011 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, as part of the San Francisco Film Society’s SFFS Screen series. It has already grossed more than the director’s previous film, Syndromes and a Century.
The 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or winner is a dreamlike drama woven around the recollections of an old man in the countryside. The film has deep roots in Thai pop cultural history, and director Weerasethakul (Syndromes and a Century) mixes in references to old Thai TV, comic books and classic Thai cinema along with moments of surreal humor. The performances by lead actors Thanapat Saisaymar (as Uncle Boonmee) and Jenjira Pongpas are riveting, and the film immerses us in the confusion, wonder and curiosity of a spiritual seeker.
The film had its West Coast premiere as part of IBFF Showcase 2010 at the Smith Rafael Film Center in December, after its US premiere at the New York Film Festival.
Tibet in Song in US Release
Tibet in Song is both a celebration of traditional Tibetan folk music and a harrowing journey into the past fifty years of cultural repression inside Chinese-controlled Tibet. Director and former Tibetan political prisoner, Ngawang Choephel, weaves a story of beauty, pain, brutality and resilience, introducing Tibet to the world in a way never before seen on film.
“An incredible achievement” –Annie Lennox
Just completing a four week run at New York’s Cinema Village, the film is now in national release in the US. For locations, screening times and ticket information, visit the official website: www.tibetinsong.com
Director and producer Ngawang Choepel was arrested in Tibet on charges of espionage by Chinese authorities in 1995. Accused of collecting sensitive material on China, thereby endangering its national security, he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison, serving nearly seven years before his highly publicized release in 2002. Tibet in Song is Ngawang’s story, but it also gives voice to the thousands of Tibetans engaged in the fight for the life of their cultural heritage.
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE-Documentary: Sundance Film Festival
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Calgary International Film Festival
EMERGING DIRECTOR AWARD-Documentary Feature: Asian American International Film Festival
AUDIENCE AWARD-Watch Docs: International Human Rights Film Festival
SPECIAL JURY MENTION-Watch Docs: International Human Rights Film Festival
WINNER: Cine Golden Eagle Award
The Sun Behind the Clouds in US Release
After sold out screenings in the San Francisco Bay area, The Sun Behind the Clouds, the new film from directors Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam (Dreaming Lhasa) is now in national release in the US. For theaters, screening times, filmmaker appearances and tickets, go to the official film website.
“Essential viewing for anyone who cares about the fate of the mountain region and the legacy of the Dalai Lama… The film is notable for its focus on an extraordinary year in Tibet’s history and on Tibetans themselves—historians, writers, activists, all eloquent, impassioned and living in exile.” –Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
“A welcome departure from many previous films about the decades-long friction between Tibet and China… provides a two-sided view of the complex political and social dynamics within and outside Tibet. ”–Robert Koehler, Variety
BEST OF THE FEST: Palm Springs International Film Festival
WINNER: Vaclav Havel Award, One World Film Festival, Prague
WINNER: Silver Conch, Mumbai International Film Festival
CLOSING NIGHT SELECTION: Human Rights Watch Film Festival, London
Directed by veteran Tibetan filmmakers Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin (Dreaming Lhasa, The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche), The Sun Behind The Clouds compellingly updates the struggle for Tibetan independence by focusing on the March 2008 demonstrations against Chinese rule (the largest ever since the 1959 take-over of that nation), and the split among Tibetans themselves regarding the most effective approach to Chinese intransigence. This is the first film to show the Dalai Lama addressing the political complexity of the Tibet issue, both in his homeland and within the exile community. The Dalai Lama, living in northern India, is interviewed extensively during this turbulent 50th anniversary of exile year and given the opportunity to explicate his “Middle Way Approach,” a compromise position essentially giving up the goal of Tibet’s independence in exchange for cultural and social autonomy. A younger generation of Tibetans who are devoted to the Dalai Lama, but who nonetheless feel his solution is ineffective, appear in the film, detailing their more militant position.
UK, 2009, 79 min, English, Tibetan and Mandarin with English subtitles
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