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Tulku -The Movie: More clips via the NFB

TMcG — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:31:20 +0000

The National Film Board website has posted a series of clips from Gesar Mukpo’s film “Tulku: The Movie” which serve to get me all the more stoked to see this film. We’re all anticipating its release and details of how the DVD can be purchsed and once I hear anything, I’ll be sure to post news via this blog.

You can also follow news and discuss the film via the Facebook group.

For those who missed the trailer for this film, here you go -

Burma VJ- Reporting from a closed country

TMcG — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:32:49 +0000

“This film BURMA VJ is comprised largely by material shot by undercover reporters in Burma. Some elements of the film have been reconstructed in close collaboration with the actual persons involved, just as some names, places, and other recognizable facts have been altered for security reasons and in order to protect individuals. ”

Brave undercover Video Journalists (VJs) work risk their lives to record the atrocities occurring in Burma to have their materials smuggled out and beamed back into the country via satellite. This movie is the story of a young man named ”Joshua” who leads this group of reporters during the Sept 07 uprising.

If you are on Facebook – you can join their group via this link

The Trap

TMcG — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:13:00 +0000

As a Maritimer from the East Coast, I’m so interested to see this short film by the National Film Board of Canada.

In a Cape Breton village, Buddhist monks and nuns pray in their abbey, while French-speaking fishermen put out to sea to haul in their lobster traps. Seemingly divided by language, culture and religion, these people share more than meets the eye. The film delicately weaves a connection between the beliefs of the two groups, both regarding life as a cycle.

Once a year, the Buddhist monks and nuns buy the fishermen’s last lobster catch and release it back into the sea, believing that these lobsters could be reincarnated in the cycle leading to enlightenment. The fishermen too regard existence as a natural cycle. They preserve life by delicately putting back in the water female lobsters carrying eggs, which will hatch into the lobsters the men’s descendants will fish. The film considers mutual respect and tolerance.