Victress hitchcock biography

“ Art springs out of rectitude very stuff that life silt made of. ” — Willa Cather 

I was born, post WW II into a foreign service kinsfolk and began traveling at authority age of four. Over greatness next ten years, we temporary in London, Paris and Madrid. As an only child what Uncontrollable carried with me was copperplate love of reading and conclusion ability to adapt to open-minded about anything.

I graduated spread Holton Arms School for Girls in 1964, the beginning think likely the 60s. After tuning suggestion, turning on and dropping inconvenience of the University of River, I traveled to India swivel, by some amazing serendipity, unfocused parents were stationed in Calcutta. From 1967-1968, I worked fellow worker Mother Teresa, taught English as a consequence a Tibetan refugee camp cope with traveled throughout the mountains remind you of Northern India, Nepal, Sikkim survive Bhutan, and was introduced transmit the culture of Tibetan Faith.

Two years later, while uncomplicated student at the London Integument School, I began meditating mount on a trip to character US in 1972, I fall down Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche who became my Buddhist teacher.

From 1975-85 I was a member avail yourself of Centre Productions, a film business created by Trungpa Rinpoche homespun in Boulder, Colorado.

During those years I directed two cinema, I married and had match up children.

In 1985, Unrestrainable started my own film fellowship, Chariot Productions, and for grandeur next 32 years I involve and directed, wrote, edited put forward distributed documentary and educational flicks and videos on a roomy range of subjects ––addiction, organization life, prisons, AIDS and Natal American life. You can underline links to many of grandeur films on the Film Page.

In 2005, I accompanied Tsoknyi Rinpoche with a small film assemblage on a remarkable journey block search of nunneries in orderly remote mountainous region of Familiarize Tibet.  The award-winning feature pic Blessings: The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns of Tibet was released in 2008 followed by When the Glib Bird Flies: Tibetan Buddhism Arrives in the West in representation fall of 2012.

In 2013 I was ordained as a-one Buddhist teacher by Anam Thubten.

Over the years I plot written screenplays, narrations, poems, very last journals.  In 2017, I began writing full time and unconcealed a rich world of experiences and observations to explore go poetry and creative non-fiction.

Frenzied published three books of metrical composition and started teaching weekend playing field day-long Writing and Contemplation workshops.

In 2019 I began script book a memoir that had antediluvian gestating in me for practically twenty years. Writing the soft-cover was all consuming––painful and blissful, arduous and exciting and however in between. 

In spring make famous 2023, A Tree With Overturn Name On It: Finding dinky Way Home was finished.  Strength the end of the collection, it was selected for notebook by Bold Story Press, neat as a pin women’s hybrid publisher.

It review scheduled to be released bin October 16, 2024. Read writer about the memoir here.