Multiple award-winning filmmaker Mickey Lemle (Compassion in Exile, Ram Dass Fierce Grace) is presenting his new feature documentary, The Last Dalai Lama? in a sneak preview June 9, 7:00 pm, at SVA Theatre in New York City. All proceeds benefit The Tibet Fund.
Director Lemle filmed extensively with the Dalai Lama, with a palpable intimacy made possible by the 30-year relationship they share. Lemle’s widely seen 1991 film Compassion in Exile: The 14th Dalai Lama was a breakthrough profile that featured extensive rare archival footage from Tibet. In the new film, the Dalai Lama speaks candidly about the issues that come with aging that can disquiet the mind: regrets, unfulfilled dreams, frustrations, and the inevitability of death. His Holiness shared his personal perspective on each of those subjects, and explored the persistent questions about his next reincarnation.
The film also includes interviews with Daniel Goleman, Richard Davidson, Matthieu Ricard, George W. Bush, and members of the Dalai Lama’s family, and features the music of Philip Glass.
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THE TIBET FUND
Since 1981, under the patronage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Tibet Fund has been the primary funding organization for health care, education, refugee rehabilitation, religious and cultural preservation, elder care, and community and economic development programs serving more than 140,000 Tibetan refugees living in India, Nepal and Bhutan.
