MILAREPA DVD and Companion DVD Coming Soon

Washington D.C. — April 29, 2008 — November 4, 2008 is the much anticipated date for the US DVD release of Neten Chokling’s MILAREPA and the companion documentary to the feature film TEACHINGS ON MILAREPA.

Both titles will be brought to the US audiences under the Cinequest Label, a leader in innovative distribution technology, utilizing groundbreaking Internet platforms in concert with, traditional methods of DVD distribution distribution to great success.

MILAREPA enters a stellar line up of top quality films at Cinequest, which includes Oscar®, Emmy® and major festival award winners and nominees.

“We are thrilled to have MILAREPA part of Cinequest,” says Halfdan Hussey, Executive Director, Co-Founder o Cinequest. He states that “the message of the film is more timely than ever. MILAREPA offers a provocative parallel to the cycle of violence and retribution we see consuming the world today, while also holding out the hope for the triumph of the positive aspects of human nature.”

MILAREPA has arrived at Cinequest after a long and successful journey. hasFor a foreign language film with spiritual subject matter, MILAREPA’s to 50 theater North American release demonstrated the relevance that a story about non-violence holds for today’s art house movie-goer. Audience response and support for has been phenomenal, and the movie generated positive press in such media leaders as The Washington Post, The LA Times, Variety, Screen International, The New Yorker, The New York Magazine and The New York Sun.

The companion DVD, TEACHINGS ON MILREPA, being offered alongside the feature film, contains teachings and explanations of the life of the film’s protagonist, featuring major spiritual figures in the world of Tibetan Buddhism.

Both MILAREPA and TEACHINGS ON MILREPA have been picked up for international distribution by LongTale, LLC, a relatively new company funded by Hollywood old-timers who have been behind such history-making movies as “Superman I, II, III,” “Supergirl,” “Santa Clause,” the movie, Polanski’s “Pirates,” “The White Countess” and “The Lord of the Rings”.