Award- winning filmmaker, Dawn Gifford Engle to feature “The Dalai Lama – Scientist” world premiere at Venice International Film Festival
VENICE, ITALY (PRWEB) JULY 31, 2019: A new feature-length documentary film titled “The Dalai Lama – Scientist” will be premiered at the Cinema Astra as VPB Market Screening within the Venice Production Bridge.
The world premiere of the documentary film will take place during the 76th Venice International Film Festival.
The event will see the presence of many reputed figures including Nobel Peace Prize winner, Betty Williams of Northern Ireland. The film will be presented to acknowledge and honor His Holiness the Dalai Lama for his decades-long effort in world peace and harmony.
It is being reported that the film will feature the never before seen footage revealing a very human story of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that no one probably knows about. His Holiness, in fact, will tell the story of his lifelong journey into the world of science and technology, and how it has changed and shaped the world as a result.
The film was produced by an international team, and it was directed and written by an award-winning female filmmaker, Dawn Gifford Engle. Also, the production crew is led by a female editor Zabe Holloway.
“We are thrilled to be able to premiere this new film in Venice, and to share the fascinating and unexpected story of the Dalai Lama and science, in a way that no one has ever seen it before,” said Dawn Gifford Engle, the film’s director and writer”.
The film also features worlds renowned scientists David Bohm, Anton Zeilinger, Paul Ekman, Aaron Beck, Francisco Varela, Richard Davidson, Michael Meany, Eric Lander, Christof Koch, and Nobel Prize Laureates Steven Chu and Yuan T. Lee.
This is the sixth film in PeaceJam Production’s award-winning “Nobel Legacy Film Series”, which began six years ago with the World Premiere of Desmond Tutu’s life story, “Children of the Light”, at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in June of 2014.
Click here to watch the trailer of the Dalai Lama – Scientist.






