October 21, 2014
12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. | Ponderosa G Lounge, UBC, 2044 Lower Mall
The Centre for Culture, Identity & Education and The Department of Educational Studies (in UBC’s
Faculty of Education) present Documentary Film Screening and Book Discussion: Escape from Tibet
Each year, thousands of Tibetan refugees, many of them children, risk death from exposure and frostbite to escape political oppression by climbing over the highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayas. Nick Gray, an author and television producer who has been making award-winning documentaries for more than 30 years, captured this journey in his risky 1997 film Escape from Tibet. Among the group of refugees he followed were Pasang and Tenzin, young brothers who became the focus of the film that Gray has now turned into a book: an “astonishing true record of endurance, of the triumph of the human spirit, told as a real-life adventure story.” Tenzin joins Gray to talk about their collaboration, their journey and where the brothers are today.
L-R: CCIE Director Handel Wright, Nick Gray, and Tenzin.
Nick Gray and collaborator, Tenzin: “Escape from Tibet” Discussion
Nick Gray and collaborator, Tenzin: “Escape from Tibet” Questions and Answers