Buddha Wild Monk in a Hut wins Hollywood Award
"Buddha Wild Monk in a Hut," recently launched
the Film Center Cinemacafe Buddhist Film Series in Santa Fe,New Mexico in July 2008. Spokesperson and Program Director for the Film Center Cinemacafe stated at the time,"We are proud to be showing this beautiful and moving film and praise the filmmakers for their incredible work."The audiences for the film have mainly been adult.
The film has been praised for its " well judged mix of seriousness and humour" .Wilding was also the guest spotlight speaker on an industry panel at the American Pavilion in Cannes 2008. She was a guest speaker for World Earth Week 2007. "Buddha Wild Monk in a Hut" was shot partly in New Zealand on a remote monastery and produced by Carpe Diem Films LLC.Wilding worked with Emmy Award winning composer Charles David Denler on the music.Buddha Wild was also selected for the International Festival of Films on Tribal Art and Cultures held in India-IFFTAC, the Screen Actors Guild FoundationScreening Series, the Calgary Buddhist film series and cinemas in Los Angeles and New Zealand.It has had selected screenings in New York and it is hoped the film will branch out into more cinemas across the country.
"Buddha Wild" has been called "beautiful" by Moving Pictures
Magazine2008, and "a must see film" by Splash Magazine 2008. It
garnered critics pick
in LA Weekly Magazine 2007, and Union Jack Newspapers said,
"AnnaWilding Captures Our attention." Moonrise Movies Magazine inCanada
said it was "delightfully sweet and accurate."Ms Wilding combined with Rialto Cinemas Australia(New Zealand) to give the proceeds from the first public rough cut screenings to the Tsunami Relief Appeal in Thailand. The film has been welcomed at temples in the USA and elsewhere. "Unpretentious," providing an "affectionate glimpse" and a well-judged mixture of "seriousness and humor" into the cultural and monastic lives of missionary monks, the film explores the tenets of Buddhism, celibacy, politics, the role of women in Asian society and the day-to-day lives of Theravadin monks. "Buddha Wild" has the tag line "Wild to be one with Nature." Ms. Wilding's career spans over a decade in Hollywood, UK and Australia as writer, actress, producer and director. In 2007 Ms Wilding was thanked through her lawyers in New York for her work on all three Lord of the
Rings movies by Mark Ordesky, former CEO of New Line. The Kids First Film Award 2008 was sponsored by HBO,Paramount ,Starz,Discovery Kids,
Lionsgate,Paramount ,Universal and others. Ms WIlding said she was "honoured" the film received the Award .
