from Why Are We Silent? | Why Are We Silent? Sixty second Public Service Announcement - Movie trailer Received Emmy nomination, 1998. Winner: Gold Addy Award, San Jose 1997 and Best Short Subject Human Rights, International Humanitarian Award, 1998. Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Goldie Hawn, Alanis Morissette, Julia Roberts, Sting and Adam Yauch recite portions of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights in support of Tibet. This PSA has been shown on TV and in theatres in Australia, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Tasmania, the U.K. and USA. It has played in film festivals in New York, Seattle, Telluride, Barcelona, Taos, Palm Springs, Sonoma, Beverly Hills, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Geneva, Switzerland. Available on 35mm as well as video. |
 | Missing In Tibet Thirty minute Documentary Film Winner: Jury Award, Telluride Mountain Film Festival, 1997 and Best Short Subject Cultural Awareness, International Humanitarian Awards, 1998. Narrated by Goldie Hawn and Peter Coyote. After being awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study ethnomusicology at prestigious Middlebury College in Vermont, Ngawang Choephel's research took him to his native Tibet. In the midst of this research he was arrested by the Chinese authorities and sentenced to 18 years in prison. What was "the offense?" He videotaped Tibetan children and elders singing and dancing their traditional songs. His life story is interwoven with actual footage he shot prior to his detention. Aired on PBS stations in Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Denver, San Jose, Buffalo, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Columbia, SC. Also broadcast nationally in Australia and Hungary. Six minute version also available:
Portrait of a Political Prisoner |
 | The World Isn’t Listening Three minute Music video Winner: Best Achievement Short Subject and Best Editing Short Subject, International Monitor Awards, New York 1995, Best Documentary, Joey Awards, San Jose 1994. Designed for the college age/MTV audience, this film visualizes the horror of China invading Tibet. This video was used in 180 cities throughout the United States and in 10 countries by students and young people through Students for a Free Tibet and the extensive network of Tibet Support Groups. The International Campaign for Tibet showed it to Congressional Members. The video was also shown at The Milarepa Fund's 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 Tibetan Freedom Concerts and during the 1995 Lalapalooza Tour. Richard Gere plays the video during his press conferences. |
 | The Dalai Lama Visits Washington, D.C. Five minute Mini documentary A joyful and incongruous behind-the-scenes look at the Tibetan leader's visit to the U.S. capital's political scene. From Larry King at C.N.N. to the private offices of Newt Gingrich to a Jewish Seder held at the house where the U.S. Civil Rights Act was signed, we see him moving tirelessly on his campaign for the Tibetan people's right to self-determination. |
 | Human Rights and Moral Practice 30 minute Documentary/talk by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Addressing some of the most pressing social issues of our time with great insight and sensitivity, the Dalai Lama speaks forthcomingly on concrete political themes such as birth control, the arms trade, and global economy. |
from Tibet's Stolen Child | Tibet's Stolen Child 60 minute documentary A major world power places a 6 year old boy, a religious figure from an occupied country, under house arrest. Six Nobel Peace laureates (the Dalai Lama, 1998 recipient John Hume, Mairead Maguire, Jose Ramos-Horta, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel) and other moral and religious leaders from around the world examine this abduction. They share their own experience of intolerance and draw similarities to the current situation in Tibet. They discuss what happens when governments use persecution as a weapon. Set withing a framework of the rights of children, comparative religion, social justice and peace studies; Tibet's Stolen Child poses questions of basic humanity and its place within a world dominated by politics and economics. |
