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Film Info
2001
93 mins
Color
USA
In English
16mm
Aspect ratio: 1:1.33
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Mickey Lemle
Producer/Director Mickey Lemle has been making feature films, television series and documentary specials since 1971. In 1977 he founded Lemle Pictures, Inc. His film and television works have been shown theatrically, on television and at film festivals around the world. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University. Mickey served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Nepal and currently holds the position of Chairman of the Board of the Tibet Fund.
Lemle produced and directed an eight-part series for PBS in 1982 entitled MEDIA PROBES that garnered the Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival, a CINE Golden Eagle and a prestigious DuPont Award. In 1989 he wrote, produced and directed the multi-award winning THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON, which was also broadcast on PBS. Lemle won another CINE Golden Eagle award in 1991 for OUR PLANET EARTH, a love poem to the planet commissioned by the United Nations.
In 1993, Lemle produced and directed the multi-award winning documentary COMPASSION IN EXILE: THE STORY OF THE 14TH DALAI LAMA. For this timely film, the Dalai Lama personally granted unprecedented access and cooperation. COMPASSION IN EXILE was broadcast on PBS and received numerous awards and honors, including two Emmy nominations for Best Director and Best Documentary, and the Grand Prize at the Earth/Peace Film Festival.
His 1996 film HASTEN SLOWLY: THE JOURNEY OF SIR LAURENS VAN DER POST weaves a tapestry of key moments in the life of an extraordinary writer, filmmaker, commando leader, statesman and anthropologist through his own intimate stories. HASTEN SLOWLY was awarded a Bronze Plaque at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, and received a Golden Maile Audience Choice Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival.
Lemle’s other honors include the 1976 American Film Festival Blue Ribbon for A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE, a half hour portrait of Massachusetts State Representative Elaine Noble, and an Emmy nomination for editing P.O.W. and JIM, two programs in the RELIGIOUS AMERICA series. He also directed, shot and edited segments of the Emmy Award-winning series, ZOOM, and the Peabody Award-winning series, EYE-TO-EYE.
RAM DASS: FIERCE GRACE is his most recent film.
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