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Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache, Khyentse Norbu’s new film from South Asia will be released in North America. The director’s past films (The Cup, Travellers And Magicians, Vara A Blessing) have played Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Venice and other top film festivals.
Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache, which had its global premiere at the 17th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), was also an official selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
Abramorama acquired the acquisition of world rights for the Nepali production,
Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache and plan to release it this spring, in April. The film is executive produced by Olivia Harrison, produced by Max Dipesh Khatri, and features cinematography by Mark Lee Ping-bing (In the Mood for Love).
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.
By Craig Lewis
Dzongsar Jamyamg Khyentse Rinpoche. From khyentsefoundation.org
The renowned Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and author Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche has announced new live-streamed public teachings on “Vipassana,” to be held on 26–27 December.
The teachings, being organized by Siddhartha’s Intent Taiwan, Siddhartha’s Intent Japan, Buddha Pada (Kalimpong, India), Jamyang Khyenpa (Bhutan), and the Bhrikuti Devi Trust (Nepal), will be conducted Tibetan, with simultaneous translation into Chinese, English, Japanese, and Nepali.
The finalized schedule and streaming links will be announced and shared soon.
Born in Bhutan in 1961, and now based in Himachal Pradesh, India, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche is the son of Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and was a close student of the Nyingma master Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–91). He is recognized as the third incarnation of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, founder of the Khyentse lineage, and the immediate incarnation of Jamy
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