Beyond Our Differences is a documentary film aired December 26, 2008 on the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.

A production of New York documentary film company Entropy Films, Beyond Our Differences has been featured at film festivals including the Non-Violence International Film Festival, Global Peace Film Festival, West Hollywood International Film Festival, and many others. Entropy Films sold the 74 minute film to PBS and PBS International in late 2008 for worldwide distribution.

The film features interviews with His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...

, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid...

, Professor Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman is an influential and prolific American Buddhist writer and academic who has authored, edited or translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He is the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, holding the first endowed chair...

, Congressman Brian Baird

Brian Baird

Brian Norton Baird is a former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1999 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district comprises the counties of Thurston, Lewis, Pacific, Wahkiakum, Cowlitz, Clark, and Skamania....

, Former President of Iran Mohammad Khatami

Mohammad Khatami

Sayyid Mohammad Khātamī is an Iranian scholar, philosopher, Shiite theologian and Reformist politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 3, 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture in both the 1980s and 1990s...

, Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

, Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.-Biography:Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical,...

, Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong FRSL , is a British author and commentator who is the author of twelve books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic nun, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical faith...

, Ela Gandhi

Ela Gandhi

Ela Gandhi , granddaughter of Mohandas Gandhi is a peace activist and was a Member of Parliament in South Africa from 1994-2004, where she aligned with the African National Congress party representing the Phoenix area of Inanda in the KwaZulu Natal province...

, Klaus Schwab

Klaus Schwab

Klaus Martin Schwab is a German economist, best known as the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. His wife and former secretary, Hilde, co-founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship with him...

, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Ambassador Andrew Young

Andrew Young

Andrew Jackson Young is an American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia. He has served as Mayor of Atlanta, a Congressman from the 5th district, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations...

, Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson is a spiritual activist, author, lecturer and founder of The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation currently before Congress to establish a United States Department of Peace. She is also the founder of Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that...

, and many other politicians, kings, queens, heads of state, and social activists.

Beyond Our Differences was produced by Peter Bisanz, Tonko Soljan

Tonko Soljan

Tonko Soljan is a Croatian American Film and Television Producer known best for the PBS acquired documentary film Beyond Our Differences and the broadly distributed feature film Adrift in Manhattan starring Heather Graham, William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese and Victor Rasuk...

, Vladimir Trushchenkov and Catherine Tatge.

Awards

• Winner, Golden Eagle, CINE Golden Eagle, 2008
• Winner, Silver Remi, Worldfest Houston, 2008
• Winner, Best Spiritual Documentary, New York International Independent Film Festival, 2008
• Winner, Accolade Award, 2009
• Official Selection, Peace on Earth Film Festival, 2008
• Official Selection, Non-Violence International Film Festival, 2008
• Official Selection, Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival, 2008
• Official Selection, Global Peace Film Festival, 2008
• Official Selection, Indianapolis International Film Festival, 2009
• Official Selection, West Hollywood International Film Festival, 2009
• Official Selection, DocuWest, 2009
• Official Selection, DocuFest Atlanta, 2009