Beyond our Differences

Beyond Our Differences

Documentary Film

Beyond Our Differences, directed by Peter Bisanz explores the fundamental unity among world religions. Interviews with politicians, scholars, and religious leaders like His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu are woven with the stories of everyday individuals who put their faith to good work.

Filmed across Asia, Africa, North America, Europe, and the Middle East, Beyond Our Differences reveals the important role of religion in our increasingly global community. The documentary will premiere at the New York Independent International Film and Video Festival, with a broadcast on Bill Moyers Journal this December (2008) to follow. The film has also been accepted at four other festivals across the country.

Visit:
http://www.beyondourdifferences.com/

Contact:
245 W. 55th Street Suite 1108 New York, NY 10019
US Office: +1 (646) 822-9258
peter@entropyfilms.org
tonko@entropyfilms.org

"The Big Question: A Film about Forgiveness" -- Sunday March 9th 2008

"The Big Question: A Film about Forgiveness."

What: Film screening at the Washington DC Independent Film Festival

When: on Sunday, March 9th at 1:30 p.m.

Where: George Washington University - Jack Morton Auditorium.

To learn more about the movie and to see the film's trailer, please visit http://www.bigquestionthemovie.com/

For tickets:
contact:
Frank Desiderio, C.S.P.
Executive Producer
The Big Question: A Film about Forgiveness
(310) 709-7014

International Festival of Cinema and Religion

A journey in the differences, born in Trento in 1998 as the first cinematographic festival focused on inter-faith dialogue, the International Festival of Cinema and Religion,

"Religion Today" this year will reach its tenth edition.

Through cinema and art, Religion Today during the past years has undertaken a "Journey in the differences" to deepen our 'faith' and to build bridges for a dialogue between men and women of different religions.

The journey of the Festival, hence, becomes a challenge to listen and an invitation to not banalize and confuse, but to promote a richness of differences that no 'easy dialogue' logic can ignore or guiltily do away with. Within this general theme, every year the Festival depicts a subject to help in the investigation on the different approaches of faiths and cultures.

For the tenth edition, the theme is:

"Compassion - conflict and compassion in the paths of the faith",

For 2008 film makers are invited to work on "The scandal of evil".

Besides the cinematographic contest, RT offers cinematographic professionals and experts of different faiths and nationalities a 'workshop of cohabitation'. Moreover, RT organizes international workshops, exhibits, shows, and meetings for the schools.

In the wandering spirit that has been one of its distictive features since the beginning, the Festival, during the past nine years has travelled through Italy reaching also London, Jerusalem, Teheran, Timor and Zamosc, is now going to celebrate its tenth birthday with a dense program distributed over Trento, Rome, Milan, Bozen, Ferrara, Arco (TN) and Nomadelfia (GR).

http://www.religionfilm.com/homeENG.htm
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First Annual Interfaith Film Festival, Washington DC

The Interfaith Conference
www.ifcmw.org
will be inaugurating
the first Annual Interfaith Film Festival
of Metropolitan Washington in 2007.

Under the direction of Laura Seltzer, an IFC board member and documentary film maker, the IFC will coordinate a dynamic interreligious film series consisting of three evenings of programming. Each evening will feature a number of short films corresponding to a particular theme. The screenings will be accompanied by interfaith discussions and/or receptions.

It is our hope that the films and discussions at the festival will stimulate dialogue and deepen understanding, thereby supporting the IFC’s mission of building a just community—this time through the wonderful medium of film.

For more information including internship opportunities,
contact Laura Seltzer.
Click here to see the flyer for this event
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