Upcoming Zen Buddhist Film Festival
June 16th, 2009 • all posts
Something that not everyone may know about me is that I am a practising Zen Buddhist.
The reason I mention this is that I am helping to organise the upcoming Reel to Real film festival, a Zen film festival being held by my Zen group, Zen Open Circle.
The festival will be held on 21 and 22 August this year, in the Sydney suburb of Glebe. It’s the fifth year we’ve held the festival, and it’s normally a warm and welcoming event, but with that edge and insight that Zen brings. This is from the brochure:
What makes our 5th Buddhist Film Festival so unusual? The rarely-seen shorts and features – extraordinary films with a Buddhist flavour – are chosen by our Roshi, Dr Susan Murphy, who brings together her Zen mastery and longstanding expertise in films, from both an academic and production perspective.
Beautiful soups, cheeses, coffee and cake are included, and so are the rich insights that come from audience discussion led by our Roshi.
Some of the great films that will be showed include Fearless by Peter Weir, Man On Wire by James Marsh and Burnt by the Sun by Nikita Mikhalkov. There will also be quite a few Australian shorts :)
I have uploaded the two pages of the brochure here so that you can check out all the details.
