Mark Elliott

Mark Elliott has been making documentary films since the early 1970’s, when he walked into Dharamsala, India, with a primitive video camera and made a film on Tibetans in exile at the invitation of the Dalai Lama. His films include ‘The Lion’s Roar’, the acclaimed portrait of
the Sixteenth Karmapa; ‘Concert in the Sky’ featuring the high wire walker Philippe Petit; ‘Crow Dog’s Paradise’ with the Lakota medicine men Henry and Leonard Crow Dog; and ‘Eros, Love and Lies’ with R.D. Laing. He has also made a series of films, following “The Lion’s Roar”, focusing on Tibetan Buddhism, its traditions and figures. These include ‘Eye of the Land’, ‘Under the Bodhi Tree’, and the more recent, ‘Bodhisattva’ and ‘Yangsi’.

Mark’s fascination is to explore the world of visionary people through the medium of film. His films have been showed on television internationally, received glowing reviews from the New York Times to the Hollywood Reporter, and shown in the US through outlets such as The Discovery Channel, Landmark Theaters and PBS.

For the last twenty four years Mark has lived in the remote mountain community of Crestone, Colorado.”