The BardoVR Team
BardoVR consists of experts and practitioners in a number of fields, all of whom are committed
to making AfterDeath a riveting and mind-expanding VR experience. If you are interested in learning more about BardoVR or becoming involved in the development of ,AfterDeath, please contact us.
Tom Seidman Writer/Director
Tom Seidman graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and subsequently attended the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies as a Directing Fellow. He worked as a DGA Assistant Director for such filmmakers as Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, and Peter Weir (on The Dead Poets Society), and on numerous network television shows. In 2003 he formed Honey Creek Pictures, where he has produced, written and/or directed four feature films, including The Christmas Bunny starring Florence Henderson, which is seen annually on national television.
Tom has been a mediator and student of Buddhism for over twenty-five years, studying with such teachers as Ken McLeod and Noah Levine. He has attended several meditation retreats, including the intensive 10-day Vipassana silent retreat in Joshua Tree, California.
Andrew Seidman attended Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles and spent two years at Stanford University before leaving early to work in videogame development and computer programming.
He worked for mini-storage software company QuikStor, cellphone game company JAMDAT Mobile and mobile phone development house Antomic, Inc. before starting his own small software fullstack development business, where he works today.
Andrew Seidman
Lead Developer
The Venerable Thepo Rinpoche was born in Tibet and escaped into the Himalayas as a child after the Chinese invasion, carried on the backs of monks that followed the Dalai Lama to India. He was recognized as the 8th Thepo Tulku and trained in the Ganden Shartse Monastery. From 1975 to 1980, he worked at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala and served as a special cultural advisor for the Smithsonian Institution Tibetan Library. He was an advisor and liaison on Graham Coleman’s seminal 1997 film, A Tibetan Trilogy.
Thepo has worked as an activist for the Tibetan cause in various capacities: as a founding board member of the Bay Area Friends of Tibet in 1983; a board member and co-founder of the Tibetan Association of Southern California in 1990; President of the Tibetan Association of Northern California in 1994; and as Coordinator for the Tibetan Resettlement Project beginning in 1993. He currently lives in Santa Barbara and is co-founder of the Santa Barbara Tibet Summit.