By Daniel Millet Gil and Raymond Lam Buddhistdoor Global | 2020-12-22 |
IBFF2008 Mexico City. Image courtesy of Gaetano Maida
Film producer and international film festival organizer Gaetano Kazuo Maida is the executive director of the Buddhist Film Foundation (BFF). He is a founding director of the Buddhist quarterly
Tricycle and was producer/director of
Peace Is Every Step, a film profile of Vietnamese Zen teacher and activist Thich Nhat Hanh, narrated by British actor Ben Kingsley.
In this interview, Maida talks with Buddhistdoor en Espanol and Buddhistdoor Global about 2020’s rapidly shifting contexts that have reshaped the world of Buddhist-themed filmmaking, along with recent losses affecting the Buddhist movie community.