Starting April 2017, The Great Transmission is broadcasting on select local PBS stations. Check your local listing for dates and times, also please send requests to your local station if you’d like to see it!
News
Berkeley Art Museum
The Great Transmission is screening weekly on Saturdays at 1pm at the Berkeley Art Museum.
Stop by to enjoy their Himalayan art collection, and take in our film.
Learn more: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/event/great-transmission-0
Sedona Film Festival
The Great Transmission will screen in February 2017 at the Sedona Film Festival!
9 AM Sunday, February 19
3:15 PM Monday, February 20
New Short Video & Annual Fund Letter
We’re pleased to share a new short video piece. We hope that it conveys to you a sense of our awe at the fragility and preciousness of wisdom and knowledge in its many forms, and our deep respect for Tarthang Tulku’s work and other crucial preservation projects throughout history.
We also wish to express our gratitude to everyone who has contributed to these efforts through donations, time, and energy, or simply rejoiced in them and felt moved.
Wisdom has its own momentum, and yet it takes great effort to call it forth, protect the forms that transmit its essence, and affirm its value as a living tradition if it is to survive.
In part, to tell these stories through film is to remind us all of the power of wisdom to transform suffering and the energy of compassion that inspires us to act from benevolence and goodness.
Thank you for being part of this work, these projects, and this momentum.
In the spirit of the holiday season, here’s to ever more generosity, goodwill, and compassion in the world.
Warmest wishes,
Pema Gellek
Director, Guna Foundation
If you wish to contribute to our Annual Fund, your donation is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Guna Foundation’s Annual Fund Campaign 2016
When you donate to our Annual Fund, you make possible film and design projects that inform, inspire, and communicate the value of Tibet’s Buddhist tradition.
We also highlight the tremendous efforts by Tarthang Tulku’s organizations to maintain the vibrancy of this tradition, celebrating what has been accomplished and calling attention to what could still be lost.
We have succeeded in creating high-quality films, however the expenses from these major projects are high, and it is difficult to make financial returns on documentaries.
The Annual Fund raises unrestricted funds from donors and friends of Guna Foundation to support our continued growth, including: room and board for our full-time volunteers, film distribution efforts and outreach to museums, DVD production, volunteer recruitment, and research and development of new multimedia projects.
Our non-profit organization depends on and is deeply grateful for your generosity and commitment to helping us achieve our mission: to share a vision of beauty and engagement rooted in the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism.
Our goal for the Annual Fund Campaign is to reach $108,000 by October 2017.
Make a gift today. Donations are tax-deductible.
Make a One-time Contribution, or become a Sustaining Patron by making a recurring pledge, by clicking the button below.
If you don’t have a Paypal account, look for “Don’t have a Paypal Account?” on the page that appears after you click the button.
Update: New video essay, Wisdom.
With this new short film, we invoke the transcendental impulse to discover and preserve knowledge, and explore how we can help bring this into being.
Enjoy, and please share with likeminded friends.
We believe in the power of film and art. Help us continue to give voice to this wisdom tradition.
The Annual Fund will sustain us as we:
-Distribute The Great Transmission to a wide audience via film festivals, museums, and public broadcast.
-Create unique screenings and private events that foster connections between our current donors and friends, and create an atmosphere of engagement.
-Create beautifully-designed educational resource materials that bring ancient history and knowledge to life.
-Begin research for our next intensive film or major multimedia project.
Guna Foundation is a small, volunteer-based non-profit film studio with 3 documentary films — Light of the Valley (2011), Prayers of the Ancient Ones (2013), and The Great Transmission (2016). Our first two films broadcast on local PBS stations, and we are currently distributing our third film, The Great Transmission. We are supported entirely through the generosity of individuals like you!
Make a gift today. Donations are tax-deductible.
Make a One-time Contribution, or become a Sustaining Patron by making a recurring pledge, by clicking the button below.
WISDOM series at Rubin Museum
We are pleased to present the New York Premiere of The Great Transmission at the Rubin Museum of Art.
When: Wednesday, September 14 at 8 PM
Where: Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011
Q&A with Jack Petranker to follow screening.
Tickets & More Information: Tickets at the Rubin
A wonderful screening at Lucasfilm
Thank you to LucasFilm for being wonderful hosts, and for generously allowing us to screen The Great Transmission in the Premier Theater at their SF campus on Friday night.
The sound and visuals in the theater were fantastic. Much gratitude for the support and kindness of everyone who helped us with the event, and so glad to share the evening with all of you who showed up!
Here are a few photos from the event:
Film Festivals
The Great Transmission has been accepted to another two film festivals! The Bali International Film Festival, and the Berkeley Video and Film Festival!
Special Screening of The Great Transmission at Lucasfilm
You are invited to a special screening of The Great Transmission at Lucasfilm’s Premier Theater in San Francisco on Friday, August 26th, 2016!
Doors open at 6:30 pm. Film screens at 7:00 pm, followed by Q & A with the Director.
No food is allowed in the theater, but there is a restaurant called Sessions on the Lucasfilm campus. We recommend making an evening of it!
RSVP’s are required.
For event details and reservations, please visit our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-great-transmission-sf-screening-at-lucasfilm-registration-26732501632
Donations are greatly appreciated.
We accept online donations through Paypal: https://gunafoundation.org/site/?page_id=734

Yoda Foundation at Lucasfilm. Photo by Michael Fraley. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrfraley/15442899952
Screenings of The Great Transmission
We are excited to announce our 2016 and 2017 screenings of The Great Transmission. This page will be updated as more events are scheduled.
2017
February 18 – June 10, 2017 — Berkeley Art Museum
February 19 & 20, 2017 — Sedona Film Festival
March 4, 2017 — Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
March 8, 2017 — Fowler Museum at UCLA
March 26, 2017 — Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (Germany)
May 19, 2017 — Nice International Film Festival (France)
2016
April 18-24, 2016 — Albuquerque Film and Music Experience
June 18, 2016 — Maui Film Festival
July 1- July 3, 2016 — Academic conference in Bhutan, “Tradition and Innovation in Vajrayana Buddhism: A Mandala of 21st century Perspectives,” held by The Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH Research — www.bhutanstudies.org.bt
August 26, 2016 — Lucasfilm in San Francisco — Event details
September 14, 2016 — Rubin Art Museum in New York
September 24-27, 2016 — All Lights India International Film Festival / Winner Best Documentary Film
September 26, 2016 — Balinale (Bali International Film Festival)
October 1, 2016 — Buddhist Film Festival Europe
October 15, 2016 — Awareness Film Festival (Los Angeles)
October 20, 2016 — Cinecenta Films (Victoria, BC)
November 6, 2016 — Berkeley Video & Film Festival (Berkeley)
November 10, 2016 — Cinema Odeon Firenze (Florence)
December 4 & 11, 2016 — Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art (Staten Island)
December 2016 / January 2017— Bowers Museum in Orange County (date tba)