PNW premiere of a new documentary with local filmmaker Andrew Hinton.

Twelve years ago Hinton and co-director Johnny Burke made a short documentary in a remote children's community in the Himalayas. That film,Tashi and the Monk, won an Emmy and over twenty international awards and was broadcast on HBO.

Their new film returns to the same community a decade later to pick up the stories of the remarkable founder and the kids he is caring for as they seek ways to heal from trauma.

Film Synopsis:

What happens when suffering meets compassion? 

On a remote mountaintop a brave social experiment is taking place. Committed to raising children with love and compassion, former Buddhist monk Lobsang Phuntsok attempts to heal his own childhood abandonment by adopting unwanted children and growing them as a family at Jhamtse Ghatsal - the Garden of Love and Compassion - a remote children's community in the foothills of the Himalayas. 

The short documentary Tashi and the Monk followed the community's newest arrival, a wild and troubled 4-year-old girl named Tashi, as she struggled to learn what love is and how it could help her to heal. That film won over 20 festival awards, including an Emmy.

Loving Karma expands the project into a feature by returning to the community 12 years later and picking up the story with Tashi now 16 years old and faced with the challenge of becoming a big sister to two new four year olds - both called Karma - who arrive with their own complicated histories. Can she find space in her heart for their pain, and will Lobsang's patient approach show that compassion really can overcome trauma?