April 2009 News from
The Dalai Lama Foundation

Women of Tibet is Emmy-Nominated

National Peace Academy Interviews

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Women of Tibet is Emmy^®-Nominated

The film Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution is one of four films nominated in the category Historic/Cultural–Program/Special for a Northern California Emmy^® Award. The Emmy is presented for outstanding achievement in television by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The winner will be announced and the prestigious award will be presented on May 16th in San Francisco.

Filmmaker Rosemary Rawcliffe is a founding member of the Dalai Lama Foundation and we are happy to be counted among the supporters of this important work. Rosemary’s Women of Tibet film project inspired us to begin the digital media work with teenagers that led to the creation of nearly two dozen video segments by students at the Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharamsala, India.

Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo – the Great Mother and Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution have been broadcast on national PBS televions in the U.S. and have garnered seven 2008 Silver and Bronze TELLY awared and the Insight Award for Excellence. They’re available on DVD from Frame of Mind Films.

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National Peace Academy Interviews

In mid-April, Dot Maver and Mike Abkin stopped by the Foundation office and gave us a progress report on the founding of a National Peace Academy in the U.S. We made video recorings of their reports and have included them in the Many Paths to Peace collection in our online Learning Zone.

The series of four video segments can be played from Many Paths to Peace (click “Login as Guest” when asked).

The NPA is being designed in an ongoing process which began two years ago and most recently took the form of a three-day meeting where over 170 stakeholders met at Case Western Reserve University to form 15 working groups that will guide the next steps in the process. NPA will be a learning institution as well as an institution of learning, and will be self-organizing rather than just an organization. Please take time to view the reports from Dot and Mike.

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