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Film Screening: Bringing Tibet Home
Filmmaker Tenzin Choklay crafts an intense and touching documentary about contemporary Tibetans' unwavering longing for their homeland and dreamland. A part of the 2014 Asian American International Film Festival in New York City.
When:
July 31, 2014 8:30pm
Where
Description
The New York-based and world-known artist Tenzing Rigdol embarks on an unthinkable journey to smuggle 20 tons of native Tibetan soil, crossing the borders of three countries that border the Himalayas, for a final installation in Dharamsala, India, to give a chance for the thousands of Tibetans in exile to set foot on their native soil. Infused with Rigdol’s dreamy longing for his homeland, the fiery rage of his arts and unexpected humor. Filmmaker Tenzin Choklay crafts an intense and touching documentary about contemporary Tibetans’ unwavering longing for their homeland and dreamland.
Director's Bio
Tenzin Tsetan Choklay was born to Tibetan refugees in India, and was raised in Dharamsala where he was a student at Tibetan Children’s Village. Graduating from Punjab University in Chandigarh, Tenzin moved to Bombay where his interest in studying film materialized and later joined the Academy of Film and Television, Delhi. In 2005, he was awarded a scholarship at the Busan International Film Festival to study at the Korean Academy of Film Arts, one of South Korea’s leading film schools. He graduated from the Korean Academy of Film Arts in 2008. Since 2009, he has lived and worked in Delhi, and then in New York City.
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