Cinematic Superhero

Up early again. Seems I’m not able to sleep as much as I used to. 6 or 7 hours max. Is that a sign of aging?

It’s been almost a week since my last post. Blogging is hard. It’s difficult to step aside from “life” to sit down and write quick, INTERESTING, comments that distill life down to the salient points.

The last several days have been intense. Directly following Connecting4Chage, a conference which included the Dalai Lama, I had 2 days to submit a multi-media funding application for which we really should have had a week…

… had to get back on the coffee…

… but am now off it again.

Then there was dodge ball, the Van Film Fest Gala and the doc forum. That was the last 3 days.

Loving Vancouver right now. I forgot how at home I feel here. I never felt at home in Toronto. Always like I was trespassing. Awkward. Very much the outsider. Here, it’s the opposite problem. There’s too many people I know and I love. It makes productivity that much more difficult, but life that much more exciting and enjoyable.

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!