About Digital Dharma Films:
Illuminating Justice, Invoking Compassion
The purpose of our organization is to produce heartfelt, provocative media that inspires people to take action in their lives to create a just and peaceful world.
We started this endeavor from a passionate desire to make a difference in the world, and a critical understanding that mass media, specifically film, has the power and ability to impact a wide audience.
We believe that educating people and creating awareness is the first step towards creating an engaged and empowered citizenry. Finally, we share a solidarity with the people of Tibet; as human brothers and sisters when anyone is oppressed, we are all oppressed. So as artists and storytellers, this is what we are able to do, to act and inform in a powerful and compelling format.
Who We Are:
Andrea Vecchione - Founder
Andrea has been creating art all of her life primarily through music and dance. After waking up to social and environmental injustice, she decided to pursue a BS from University of Rhode Island in Environmental Science. She then continued to receive a MA from Mills College in Education.
Last year, she finished her first feature length documentary, “Ye Jivan Accha! This life is good!” about female ascetics, (Sadhus) in India.
She is currently a a PhD. candidate at the California Institute for Integral Studies, in the Asian Comparative Religious Studies program. In her spare times she also studies tabla and North Indian classical vocals in Varanasi, as well at Ali Akbar College of Music in Marin, California where she lives when she is not in India.
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Tom Sepe - Founder
Tom Sepe has been involved in the performing arts from the early age of 5 where he acted and assisted in community theater productions in his hometown of Moraga, CA. He graduated from the prestigious College of Creative Studies, UCSB in 1995 with a BA in Creative Studies, focusing on multi-disciplinary art and performance. As an activist he participated in protests and actions against the first Persian Gulf war, as well as numerous environmental causes. Professionally over the last ten years, he has worked as a high-end catering chef, a graphic designer for film and television, and a freelance web-designer. Recently, in addition to building large-scale metal sculptures and Art-Vehicles for the Burning Man Art Festival, he has been producing video shorts for The Crucible, a industrial-arts school in West Oakland, CA. Video projects include 2 min promos, full length 3-camera theater productions and a short documentary on the Crucible’s “Diemoto” a biodiesel powered custom motorcycle that set the world land speed record in 2007. He currently lives and works on an organic goat farm in Southern Oregon, where he makes chevre by day and video by night.
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