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‘Dalai Lama’ film to get Oxford screening
Khashyar Darvich, a former Oxford and Dayton resident, is touring Ohio cities with his international award-winning documentary “Dalai Lama Renaissance.”
Next stop is 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, at the Oxford Community Center, 10 S. College Ave. Darvich will lead a question and answer session before the showing. Admission is $7.50.
Narrated by Harrison Ford, the film documents a visit by more than three dozen innovative thinkers from the West with the Dalai Lama of Tibet in the mountains of northern India. They had come to share their ideas for changing the world. Unexpectedly, they themselves were changed.
“They were all transformed by the experience and took that inspiration back to their own communities,” said Darvich, who studied English and creative writing at Miami University before completing his degree at Baldwin-Wallace College.
He was invited to make the film just eight weeks before the trip and “had to find funding and get a crew of 18 together, including five cameras,” he said. “But projects like this have a way of working out. Doors open. It always felt to me that it was meant to be.”
The film has won numerous awards and attracted strong reviews. Darvich, who lives in Los Angeles, said a friend and studio executive summed up the best of the praise for him “when he told me that you almost feel like the Dalai Lama is there in the theater when you are watching.”
He has two projects in the works.
One will be about his maternal grandfather, who owned one of the first home-movie cameras in the 1930s and shot about 12 hours of footage with his family. “I want to use that in a personal story about that time,” Darvich said.
The other is about an American women who walked across the United States to support world peace starting in the McCarthy era and continuing for 30 years.
For more information about Oxford screening, call (513) 524-8506. There will also be showings Jan. 31-Feb. 4 at the Drexel Theatre in Columbus.
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