My views slideshow doesn't work when the display is called from page.tpl.php
you can try views_embed_view to call a views block programatically.

views_embed_view

&lt;?php
print views_embed_view($view_name, $display_id, $argument); // with single argument
print views_embed_view($view_name, $display_id, array($arg1,$arg2,$arg3)); // with multiple arguments
?&gt;