“Filming the San Francisco Zen Center’s ‘DOGEN: Lost and Found in Translation‘ event this past weekend was a real honor and a pleasure,” says William. The entire event was a celebration of over 30 years of work by Kazuaki Tanahashi and a host of other distinguished translators who recently completed a new translation of Dogen Zenji’s “Shobo Genzo” into English. (Zen Master Dogen [1200-1253] founded the Soto Lineage of Buddhism in Japan.) The book is called, “Treasury of the True Dharma Eye.” William’s old friend and fellow-filmmaker Gaetano Maida of the Buddhist Film Foundation organized the shoot. Shooting at three Bay Area locations: City Center, Fort Mason and Green Gulch Farm, camerapersons Deb Tullmann of Candlefoot Productions and Kim Gazecki of DocFlix filmed the larger events, while William filmed individual interviews with the speakers at the event — and everything went without a hitch! “It is heartwarming and deeply gratifying to have served the local Zen Buddhist community in this way. Thank you, Tano, for this amazing opportunity!”