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Winner, Best Feature Documentary Director, Rancagua, Chile, 2020
Winner, Best First Feature Film by the Director, Rancagua, Chile, 2020
Winner, Best Cinematography in Feature Film, Rancagua, Chile, 2020
Winner Documentary Film, Virgin Spring Cinefest, Kolkata, India, 2020
Winner Honorable Mention, Top Shorts, Los Angeles, California, 2020
Winner Best Documentary, TMFF, London, UK, 2020
Winner Best Cinematography, Sweden Film Awards, Norrbottens Lan, Sweden, 2020
Winner Best Feature Documentary, New Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal, 2020
Winner Best Cinematographer, American Golden Picture International Film Festival, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, 2020

An ORDER disruption
Blue Kangling
BLUE KANGLING – DIR. Matt Blackburn
Feature-Length Documentary, Cinema Verite

Music Credit: Gustavo Santaolalla – Motorcycle Diaries

Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and expose the core of human nature.

SYNOPSIS
Death is one of the most elusive and taboo concepts. It’s permanence and uncertainty have mystified and confounded humans for millennia. One aspect however, that we know for certain, is one day we will all die.
Tibetan Buddhist have multifaceted explanations, theories and practices around their concept of death and what happens to a consciousness once it collapses into darkness. Thousands of years of meditation, teachings and living in extreme conditions have given way to rich existential theories built on basic human truths.
Blue Kangling is a film that uncovers the collective consciousness of death for Tibetan Buddhist. It is an observational approach revealing individuals who shape, influence and live according to this knowledge. Understanding is established through intimate portraits of commoners, as well as the philosophical and culturally enlightened who offer meaning and insight behind Tibetan Buddhism. Exploring rituals and practices from generations past, we uncover early cultural influences and explanations that answer the existential questions, “Why are they here?” and “Where they will ultimately go?”

TECH SPECS
Motion Picture: Digital Cinema
Project Title: Blue Kangling
Genre: Observational Documentary
Production: ORDER Productions, LLC.
Aspect Ratio: Square, Cinemascope Crop (2.35:1)
Camera Specs: RED Epic-W Helium DSMCII
Filming Format: 5K-6K Raw REDWideGamutRGB 3G10 24fps
Color Depth: 16-bit
Location: Mustang Region in Nepal
Still Photography: Digital Medium Format
Aspect Ratio: 3:2
Camera Specs: Hasselblad H6D 50-c Medium Format
Format: Hasselblad 3FR 50MP 300DPI
Color Depth: 16-bit

TEAM
Retired Body Breaker
Wangchok Gurung

Tiri Lama
Chhamba Dukta

Head of Kagbeni
Phenclok Tsephen AKA Dara

Lama Chhuksang
Tsering Gompo Gurung

Dhakmar Priest
Doctor Khetub Bista

Ex-Lama
Shini Shinge

Villager
Sonam Dolma

Villager
Chhewang Dolma

Villager
Mutu Sangmo

Director & Writer
Matt Blackburn

Cinematographer, Editor, Colorist
Ehsan Abbasi

Producer
Nick Mills
Chandan Jha
Digbijaya Bharati

Line Producer & Nepali Translator
Aashish Shrestha

Tibetan Translator
Sering Dorje AKA Michael

1st Assistant Director
Naresh Kumar KC

Sound Recordist
Thomas Kurian

Cultural Adviser & Translator
Tsepak Rigzin

Actor & Driver
Ratna Shrestha

Music Track
Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche
by
Ani Choying Drolma

Music Track
Under a Blue Grey Sky Act III
by
Jeremiah Cymerman

SPECIAL THANKS TO
His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche
His Holiness Sakya Trizin
The 41st Generation Throne holder of the Sakya order of Tibetan Buddhism

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman
American Buddhist Author
Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University
Co-founder and president of Tibet House New York

Yangsi Rinpoche
Geshe Lharampa
Reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun
President and Founder of Maitripa College, Portland, Oregon

Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association
Portland, Oregon

Sakya Buddhist Center LA
Los Angeles, California

Emory University Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Red Digital Cinema Camera
Los Angeles, California

Ven. Teachers & Staff
Pema Ts’al Monastery, Pokhara, Nepal

Dhondup Dorjee & Pema
SOS, Tibetan School, Pokhara, Nepal

Gopal Swamy
Audio Engineer at AcousTech Music Productions, Inc.

Buddy Hall
Executive Producer at Bare Knuckles Creative

Chris Basta & Chris Nicholson
Sound Designers at Bare Knuckles Creative

Britney Grissom Blackburn
Bayan Sardari
Chelsey Mills
Alireza Khatami
Henry Blackburn
Charlie Blackburn
Brian Pierce

Bare Knuckles Creative
Shot on
RED digital Cinema Camera
Helium 8K
Hasselblad H6D-50c
DJI Inspire II
Zeiss Otus Lenses

ORDER
Sub-Pop Filmmakers
https://www.order-disruption.com/bluekangling