Tom Landon is the owner of Lucky Dog Productions, AND has worked in commercial and public television for over 25 years as a producer, director, videographer and editor. He has circumnavigated the globe, shooting in the UK, Russia and Japan for a variety of clients and programs. When not working on films, Tom teaches AP Human Geography for the Virginia Dept. of Education.

Jenna Swann is a videographer and editor from Blacksburg, VA. She traveled to Nepal in 2000 to shoot Into Nepal, A Journey Through the Kathmandu Valley, which she edited with Tom Landon, and for which the two shared an award from NETA for best educational documentary of 2003. Jenna is also an award-winning 5^th grade teacher, and was the first winner of the prestigious McGlothlin Award for Teaching Excellence. 

In June of 2007, seven friends traveled from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to the village of Jomsom in the Himalayas of Nepal, to deliver a painting by American artist Jane Lillian Vance. The painting depicts Tsampa Ngawang, a Tibetan Amchi, or doctor and mind healer.

The film is narrated by Public Radio’s Lisa Mullins. The cross-cultural project has received the blessing of his Holiness the Dalai Lama, and examines the connections between an American community reeling in the face of the killings at Virginia Tech, and a remote Himalayan region fighting to preserve its way of life in the face of encroaching modernization.

Date

Venue

City, State

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Hapeville Historical Society & Hapeville Assoc. of Trade & Tourism

Hapeville, GA

Friday, March 23, 2012

The Arts Council, Inc.

Gainesville, GA