Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevari
Yesterday… I went to work out at my gym. Found a New York Times issue from last Thursday next to my leg press machine.
(photo from Ngawang Choephel's Facebook profile pictures)
Today… went through the paper on the D train bound to Brooklyn this morning, and my eyes were attracted by the title (p A32) ” Tibetan Ex-Prisoner Evokes His Homeland’s Struggle in a Movie”, written by Kirk Semple. The article is about the Tibetan movie director and music scholar Ngawang Choephel (pronounced cheu-FELL), 44, who was in a Chinese prison for six and a half years, lives now in Queens and his movie Tibet in Song which made its theatrical release in New York City at the Cinema Village Theatre last Friday September 24. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2009 where it won the Special Jury Award in the World Documentary Competition. Since then, Tibet in Song has won numerous awards and screened worldwide.
