Killing Buddha – A Movie by Betsy Chasse
Laughter is the best medicine in hard times and Killing Buddha, a movie by Betsy Chasse, is first and foremost a comedy.
Why Killing Buddha?
Laughter is the best medicine in hard times and Killing Buddha is first and foremost a comedy. And the title is politically correct! (It’s inspired from a quote from one of Buddhism’s most famous philosopher monks, Linji, the 9th-century founder of Chán Buddhism.)
But the film also has a serious message and we have already attached three world superheroes of the New Age: Deepak Chopra, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.
While distributing “What The Bleep Do We Know?! ” I was honored to be able to travel the world to speak about my experience making “Bleep”. The most common question was “how did a girl like me, one who had never uttered the words Quantum Physics- end up making such a film?”
Sometimes it takes the most unlikely of people in the most unusual circumstances to create something that touches the world like “Bleep” did. The story I told had a resonance with so many, which I decided to, write a film about it: “Killing Buddha”.
Brief Synopsis of Killing Buddha
Based on a true story
Business flagging, dumped by her boyfriend, car repossessed and the bank eyeing her heavily mortgaged home, disenchanted ex-Hollywood film producer Sara Wells desperately wants change. Convinced by her agent to go to a yoga class, where she receives some simple advice: make a list of what you want and let the universe provide.
Confident in her list-making abilities, uncertain about the universe and nostalgic for her Hollywood days, Sara tops her Wish List with a request for a movie to produce—a meaningful film that will change her life. Within hours, Sara is offered the script for
Killing Buddha, a privately funded documentary about the modern Western spirituality movement.
Sara’s deepest insight into spirituality is that God is dog spelled backward. But she is intrigued by the coincidence with her list and drawn by the possibility of learning the ultimate recipe for instant happiness and success.
Sara takes the project against the advice of her agent, setting out on a hilarious road trip with a bickering mismatched film crew of believers, cynics and seekers: Jason Stroud, born-again cameraman, Brin Halloway, bitterly disillusioned New Age consultant, Catholic editor and sound man Fabio Martinez, and wet-behind-the-ears African American PA, debutant and socialite, Michelle Kandell.
Think “Bridget Jones seeks enlightenment while shooting a documentary about God”… a brilliant way of hiding great teachings in a funny, personable movie with a great female protagonist.
About Betsy Chasse
Killing Buddha is co-written by, and will be directed by award-winning filmmaker Betsy Chasse, co-creator of the international spiritual indie hit, What The Bleep Do We Know?!, a film that is still making waves in the LOHAS market. Six years after its theatrical release DVD sales are still going strong worldwide.
Sparking an international following, What The Bleep Do We Know?! inspired a sequel and two highly successful books. It also launched an entirely new genre in filmmaking, the “hybrid documentary.” It also put spiritual cinema on the map.
Betsy currently hosts her own radio show “Life Unscripted – with Betsy Chasse” which she started in December of 2011. Within the first month, the show garnered over 4000 listeners. She also has a bi-weekly blog on Intentblog.com (site created by Malika Chopra) and has over 100,000 followers on Facebook. Her blog has recently been featured on Yahoo/Shine.
She has great name recognition within the spiritual community and beyond into the mainstream for her work in film, radio, publishing, her blogs, and her books.
Help fund this film. Click the pic to learn more: http://crowdfundinglive.com/projects/cfl/killing-buddha-the-film-1/
