Friends,
Festival Canceled Due to Heavy Rain, a film about Lama Choyin Rangdrol's spiritual journey to Cambodia has been awarded the Aloha Accolade Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2009 Honolulu International Film Festival.
The award notice said, "...judges felt that your film demonstrated superior and standout filmmaking and is deserving of one of our our most esteemed awards. Your film was among the very best of the several hundreds of films submitted from over 30 countries around the world."
Our HBCU world premiere was well received in America's bible belt at Nashville's International Black Film Festival and we are screening again at the Pan African Film Festival in Magic Johnson's theaters in South Central Los Angeles. An award from the film community of Honolulu, city of multi-generational Buddhists as well as hometown of president elect Obama, adds an exciting dimension of contemporary relevance to Rainbowdharma's achievements.
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Festival Canceled Due to Heavy Rain is the story of one man's journey from the urban "killing fields" of Los Angeles to his discovery of Buddhist peace in the jungle of Cambodia. Filmed on Lama's pilgrimage to Angkor, the largest religious site in the world, Festival Canceled Due to Heavy Rain is a moving exploration Buddhism's healing power. Festival Canceled
Posted By: Lama Choyin Rangdrol
Tuesday, January 6th 2009 at 2:32PM
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