INVITATION TO RAISE BUDGET FOR A ONE HOUR TV PROGRAM to enter the River to River Film Festival in Florence, Italy
We worked with three young American editors and over 200 hours of digital/HD video to complete the 10 min DEMO and we are now building a major social media network for producing a series of films on "JAIN ENLIGHTENMENT - A COSMIC Way of Life" as a global TV series.
It took over three years of research (R&D) and three pre-production location trips to India filming to produce enchanting "Palitana's Temple Cities on the Hill", "Magnificent Archtecture of Ranakpur" and "Ancient Ellora Cave Temples" and "THE ANNOINTED - Legend of Bahubali" in Sravenbelgola (South India).
We interviewed H.H. Acharya Mahapragya, major swamies, monks and nuns; Indian, British and American Jain experts, academic professors, authors, community leaders, - even the eminent brother of Indu Jain , Chairman of the Times of India. We returned with over 150 hours of digital/HD video. But alas ! our financial backers - Jain diamond merchants and businessmen - could no longer pay for the editing ...due to the U.S. economic recession and other personal reasons.
It was not in our kismet until now, when Tushar and Dina Kothari handed us a check to complete the 10 min film. They genuinely believe that Americans and the western world needs to understand who Jains and what Jain Dharma has to offer the world. This 10 min film: "JAIN ENLIGHTENMENT" reveals answers to questions on how to reverse daily realities and offers the alternative life-style of simplicity for modern civilization.
The film opens referring to the ancient Jain scriptures that reports on the existence of 24 Tirthankars (Prophets) who lived hundreds and thousands of years ago ... beyond 2,500 BC. These liberators of the soul discovered the timeless scientific traditions of simple and harmonious living with the first basic principle of Ahimsa (Non-Violence) towards all human beings, animals, birds, insects and Nature herself.
Modern leaders like India's Mahatma Gandhi, America's Martin Luther King Jr. and South Africa's Nelson Mendala liberated the souls of their people by challenging the concept of independence and moral and civil liberty through Ahimsa ... the teachings of non-violence and making it their own.
It is important to show America and the world - Who are Jains ? The word pronounced “Jane” translates in Sanskrit as “Jina” which in English spells “spiritual victor – the victorious ones” ... “a liberated soul” ... free of greed and demands of materialism … the conqueror of the world of suffering, temptations and earthly illusions.
We began the film project after meeting Donald Rubin, Chairman of the Rubin Museum of Art (www.rmanyc.org) when he told me it was his dream to have the first Jain Art Exhibition in New York (because he owned a couple of Jain mandala paintings ...). I reminded him that not too many people in America know about Jains, so he challenged me to make the film.
Within days, I started introducing him to all the wealthy Jains in USA and India ... and eventually after three years ... two young Jain men born in this country, working in high finance, handed Donald a check for $250,000 to organize "VICTORIOUS ONES: Jain Images of Perfection" from 18 Sept to 12 Feb 2010.
We welcome you to team up with Global Cultural Diversity Films (GCDF) Inc. as partners and assist us in raising funds to inform and educate Americans and the world about the remarkable scientific philosophy and cosmology, especially Ahimsa, Anekantvad and Aparigrah.
Please contact us if this project is of interested to you, your family and your friends ...
With regards, Sincerely, Vinanti
Vinanti Sarkar,Director, Global Cultural Diversity Films (GCDF) Inc. 425 East 51st Street, New York, NY 10022. Tel: 22-759-4568 Email: vinanti.v@gmail.com -- Website: www.globalfilmlinks.com Linkedin / Twitter / Facebook / MySpace, etc. Review short clips on www.vimeo.com 5084696 or 5084856 or 50864417 or 5092260 or 5092316 and join our discussions on blog: http://jainenlightenment.blogspot.com
This was our first draft edit cut ... We are working on deadline - to complete the films as soon as possible ... and start entering them in global film festivals ...
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