Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating homosexuals and Christianity too wide to cross? How can the Bible be used to justify hate? These are the questions at the heart of Daniel Karslake's FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO. Through the experiences of five very normal very Christian very American families - including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson -- we discover how people of faith handle or sometimes tragically fail to handle having a gay child. Informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu Harvard's Peter Gomes Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO offers healing clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.
Why hasn't Tibet been freed? Who is keeping the movement from going forward? From director Dirk Simon When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun is a groundbreaking documentary that examines these questions in a quest to understand why the world is still dealing with unsettled issues like the Tibetan cause and what can really be done to eradicate them. Seven years in the making When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun is the first inside look at the Tibetan movement to free Tibet from Chinese occupation its internal conflicts and contradictions. The combination of full HD footage from India China Tibet and the US along with a prologue narrated by Dennis Haysbert and an original soundtrack by Philip Glass Thom Yorke and Damien Rice make this the first film that presents the complexity of the struggle with such emotional impact. The film features Richard Gere Archbishop Desmond Tutu the 14th Dalai Lama the newly crowned 18th descendant of the Great Religious Kings of Tibet some of the most prominent Chinese contemporary artists and all the key figures of the exiled Tibetan freedom movement and their followers.
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