Dalai Lama Renaissance, a documentary directed and produced by Khashyar Darvich, was filmed in late 1999 at a conference held in Dharamsala, India at the Dalai Lama's home. Forty "visionaries and innovative thinkers" met for five days and considered ways to change the world for the better.

The event was not without conflict: arguments arose when "silent observers" began to resent having to keep silent, and egos collided. But on the fourth day, the "synthesis" the His Holiness hoped to achieve began to form, and positive dialogue replaced dissent.

Participants were drawn from across the intellectual spectrum and included Amit Goswami, a theoretical nuclear physicist (who was in What the Bleep Do We Know?), Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, the founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center (who was in The Secret) and Fred Alan Wolf, author of "Taking the Quantum Leap" (who was in both!).

Dalai Lama Renaissance has made many appearances on the festival circuit, often selling out its screenings, and Darvich hopes to expose it to wider audiences. He probably isn't in a rush though; he sounds like a very patient, thoughtful guy. In an interview, he revealed that he "gave this film the care and attention that it needed, and the film moved forward in a way that was natural and right for the film...The timing of the film worked perfectly, because if we had asked Harrison Ford 6 months earlier or later to narrate the film, he would not have been available."