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"SUMMER PASTURE" CONSIDERS THE FATE OF TODAY'S TIBETAN NOMADS

Summer Pasture, a documentary film about a Tibetan nomad family facing an uncertain future, will screen as part of the IDA’s 13th Annual DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary Showcase from August 6-12 at the Arclight Hollywood. For showtimes and tickets, please click here.
 


In recent years, growing pressures from the outside world have posed unprecedented challenges for Tibetan nomads. Rigid government policies, rangeland degradation, and the allure of modern life have prompted many nomadic families to leave the pastures for permanent settlement in towns and cities. Summer Pasture is a feature-length documentary that chronicles one summer with a young family amidst this period of great uncertainty. Locho, his wife Yama, and their infant daughter spend the summer months in eastern Tibet 's Zachukha grasslands, the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote county in Sichuan Province, China. he story of a family at a crossroads, Summer Pasture takes place at a critical time in Locho and Yama’s lives, as they question their future as nomads. As their pastoral traditions confront rapid modernization, Locho and Yama must reconcile the challenges that threaten to drastically reshape their existence.

Summer Pasture is directed by Lynn True, Nelson Walker and co-director Tsering Perlo.  The film was conceived as part of The Kham Film Project, an association of American and Tibetan filmmakers working together to improve the quality and diversity of knowledge about Tibet by engaging Tibetans in the filmmaking process. For more information on the project and film, click here.

IDA’s 13th Annual DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary Showcase will present 18 feature films and 10 short films, a collection of some of the best groundbreaking documentary films from around the world. For a full listing of films, please visit their website.

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WHY THE DALAI LAMA MATTERS: Professor Robert Thurman on why he thinks that the Dalai Lama is the solution to China, Tibet and the world.

Los Angeles Friends of Tibet is the founder and sponsor of THE TIBET CONNECTION, a monthly radio program on Sprouts, airing on Pacifica stations. The program features guests and stories that connect the issues facing today’s world with the Tibetan experience. Please visit our website, thetibetconnection.org, to hear the show, listen to the archives and learn more about our guests and stories. Airing on The Tibet Connection website every month and Sprouts Pacifica stations the 2nd Thursday of every other month.


LAFOT and The Tibet Connection bring you Power of One, an opportunity for you to do something for  Tibet.

How to help Tibetan earthquake victims:

Below are a list of recommended organizations who work directly with Tibetans in Tibet and are taking part in the earthquake relief effort. Please take a moment to visit one of their sites and make a donation.

Tibetan Village Project
Tibetan Relief Fund
Machik
Tibet Foundation
Tibet Fund
Thrangu Rinpoche Trust


Clean, safe water at last: LAFOT's gift to the Transit School is up and running

 

 

Click here to read the story about how a LAFOT fundraiser changed the lives of young Tibetans in India.

 

 

 

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