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SUMMARY:LEGACIES: Pema Tseden & New Tibetan Cinema
DESCRIPTION:A special event featuring the young Tibetan filmmakers Tenzin Sedon\, Jigme Trinley\, and Tenzin Dazel\, who will be in attendance\, presenting their films and participating in discussions after each screening and in a closing roundtable. \nThis weekend program is the finale of a year-long tribute series entitled\, “LEGACIES: Pema Tseden & New Tibetan Cinema\,” co-sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, C.V. Starr East Asian Library\, Modern Tibetan Studies Program\, and Department of Film and Media Studies. Pema Tseden (1969-2023) was a pioneer of the Tibetan New Wave cinema and inspired a new generation of Tibetan filmmakers. \nSaturday\, September 21\n3–5:30 PM\nA Road of Prayer\nDirected by Tenzin Sedon\n2016\n107 minutes\nTICKETS \nPost-screening discussant: Meg McLagan\, Visiting Professor of Professional Practice\, Film Studies Program\, Barnard College\, Columbia University \nFull-length documentary film by Tibetan woman director Tenzin Sedon. This film provides an intimate look at the daily lives of ordinary people in the director’s hometown of Lhasa\, Tibet. Three narratives are joined by place and time and urban change\, through which the director explores “the meanings of religion and belief in an ethnic nation.” \nFilmmaker bio: Tenzin Sedon is a documentary filmmaker based in Lhasa\, where she founded the Dawn Independent Film Studio (2015-2023). In August 2023\, she arrived in New York City to start the MFA program in Graduate Film Production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her current film project focuses on a mainland Tibetan middle school\, “Gongkang Middle School\,” which is located in Shanghai and is part of a unique schooling system designed for Tibetan minorities in major cities throughout China since 1989. The director herself attended the school at the age of twelve. In 2019\, she returned to Shanghai and filmed at the school from 2019-2023. The film currently is in the post-production stage. \n  \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/legacies-pema-tseden-new-tibetan-cinema-series-finale-films-by-the-next-generation/
LOCATION:Lenfest Center for the Arts\, 615 W. 129th street\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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