Film & Video: "Dalai Lama Renaissance" Now Available on DVD

The film, featuring the exiled Tibetan leader the 14th Dalai Lama, is the winner of 12 awards, and screened in theaters in over 100 U.S. cities, as well as in cinemas around the world. "Dalai Lama Renaissance" also features: Micheal Beckwith (from the film "The Secret"), quantum physicists Fred Alan Wolf and Amit Goswami (from "What the Bleep Do We Know"), Air America radio host Thom Hartmann, and Social Scientist Jean Houston

Dalai Lama Renaissance, the award-winning feature documentary narrated by actor Harrison Ford, which played to sold out theater audiences around the world, has now arrived on DVD.

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The film, which features Nobel Prize-winning Tibetan Buddhist leader Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is the winner of 12 awards, and the official selection of over 40 international film festivals. The film has screened in theaters in over 100 cities in the United States, as well as in cinemas in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Taiwan, and other countries. Awards include: Best Documentary Film (Monaco International Film Festival), Grand Jury Prize (Canada International Film Festival), and Audience Award (Sedona International Film Festival), and others.

Dalai Lama Renaissance tells the unique, funny and interesting story of 40 Western innovative thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama and to see if collectively they can come up with solutions for some of the largest issues confronting our world today. What happened to the group was surprising and wholly unexpected, and led to profound transformation.

Some of the more notable members of the group were quantum physicists Fred Alan Wolf and Amit Goswami (from the film What The Bleep Do We Know?), Dr.Michael Beckwith (from the film The Secret) and radio host and political commentator Thom Hartmann ("Air America" radio's Thom Hartmann Program), renowned social scientist Jean Houston, and other leading social, academic and spiritual leaders.

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 writes that Dalai Lama Renaissance is a "comedy sensation," adding, "I can't remember the last time a movie made me laugh so hard." Three-time Academy and Emmy nominated actress Diane Ladd calls the film "Spellbinding! An uplifting cathartic journey that grips the soul…. an inspirational revelation for mankind, an everlasting awakening of the heart and mind."

"I narrated Dalai Lama Renaissance," says Harrison Ford, "because I believe His Holiness is making a positive influence in our world. For me, the film represented an opportunity to continue assisting the optimistic efforts of an extraordinary individual."

Dalai Lama Renaissance is produced by Khashyar Darvich and the Wakan Films. The film's DVD release offers 105 minutes of bonus features including additional interviews with the Dalai Lama, cast commentaries, featurettes, and a Q & A with Producer/Director Khashyar Darvich.

Dalai Lama Renaissance has a run time of approximately 81 minutes.

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