Visioning Tibet:Presenting a unique panorama of contemporary Tibet, this film tells the remarkable story of an American doctor who has dedicated his life to ending preventable blindness in this remote and troubled part of the world. Completed in January 2005, this film has screened at over 30 international film festivals, winning top awards at seven festivals including the Audience Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival and is slated for a PBS broadcast in May 2007. (length: 14mins) website: www.visioningtibet.com
website: www.tibetvisionproject.org
“Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in the world,” explains reporter Isaac Solotaroff in this week’s Rough Cut, filmed on the stunning high plains of Tibet.
In a country where much of the population lives at elevations of 15,000 feet, where solar radiation poses a high risk for cataracts, the disease has become an epidemic. Many of those afflicted with cataracts come from the poorest communities — nomadic herders who have limited access to healthcare and face inevitable blindness without surgery. Read the rest of this article »
Two Tibet lawsuits are currently underway in Spain under the principle of “universal jurisdiction,” a doctrine that allows courts to reach beyond national borders in cases of torture, terrorism or war crimes. In a new written statement, the Chinese government has strongly rejected a judicial request for officials to testify in court in Madrid and demanded that the Spanish government block this ground-breaking investigation in the Spanish High Court on crimes against the Tibetan people. The two Tibet lawsuits are the result of years of dedication and relentless hard work by Jose Elias Esteve Molto, a Professor of International Law at the University of Valencia, and Alan Cantos of the Spanish Tibet Support Committee (CAT), a research scientist in oceanography for more than 15 years. ICT conducted this interview with Alan Cantos and Jose Elias Esteve Molto in April as an introduction to the significance of the cases. One of the witnesses, Kelsang, also speaks on this footage about giving evidence in Spain. Read the rest of this article »
BBC documentary film: A year in Tibet (June 2006 till July 2007), Gyangze County in TAR.
BBC 纪录片: 《西藏一年》 (2006年6月 至 2007年7月), 西藏江孜县.
Bloomberg Television interview with Sun Shuyun, 21 December 2008
Sun Shuyun is a Chinese writer and a filmmaker. She was born in China in the 1960s, graduated from Beijing University and won a scholarship to Oxford. Her books include
Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud(in which she retraces the journey of the 7th century Chinese monk Xuanzang)
The Long March: The True History of Communist China’s Founding Myth
A Year in Tibet, a book made in conjunction with the BBC documentary A Year in Tibet.
