Cinematic Superhero

Two days down, one more to go at the Connecting4Change conference. It’s been mad couple of days, bouncing around from venue to venue, schlepping gear, filming, and meeting inspiring and interesting people.

Yesterday was the big Dalai Lama day. Our “small” group of 120 people had two private audiences with him, one at lunch, and one for about an hour, in the late afternoon. He was his usual, humble, humorous self — and those around him where their usual kowtowing, babbling selves — some things never change

Today’s the official beginning of the Connecting4Change (C4C) conference here in Vancouver. The conference is brings together 120 participants from around the world, philanthropists, corporate execs and ’social entrepreneurs’ to meet each other and be inspired facilitators and the Dalai Lama.

The idea is to affect global change by working together.

My role, as filmmaker, is merely to document the event, but I’m hoping/expecting to be inspired as well. As part of my role, I’ll be following one of the participants throughout the conference, a corporate exec from out east, and my hope/goal is to live vicariously through him.

Yesterday, I filmed a meeting of the conference organizers (the event is in part being put on by The Dalai Lama Centre Org), and there were some VERY INTERESTING PEOPLE in the room, including an exec at LinkedIn. I’m looking forward to who we meet today!