I am one of the four Tibetan fulbright students at The State University of New York, Buffalo and my major is filmmaking. I would like to add a few lines on the screening of recent documentary film on Tibet, ‘Tibet; the cry of snowlion’ at our university as a part of International Student’s Education week. On behalf of all the destitute Tibetan in and out of Tibet, I would like to thank our university international office for bringing the show at our university.
Our university has one of the largest mainland Chinese students all over the US universities. Unfortunately many of them knows little about Tibet and it’s political status in reality. Some of them couldn’t spell Tibet well. As educated and brain washed by their communist govt in thier land, they consider Tibet as an inalianable part of China and that the Chinese Hans are promoting the welfare of Tibetan people in Tibet.
The documentary was followed by the hollywood blockbuster and Tom Cruise starrer, ‘Collateral’ To my surprise, Tom has only small number of audience while the cry of snowlion draws packed audience including many Chinese Han students. One of my American friends congratulate me that it is due to our (tibetan student’s) hardwork in distributing the pamplets that draws the audiences to full, but I argued that it is due to the people’s interest in Tibet and humanity that draws the audience. The documentary chronicles the various facts on Tibet and the plight of Tibetan populace in their own homeland. The film depicts China her true color. Myself as a film student, I would definitly assign the film A+. It was awsome, breathtaking, well cinematographed, beautifully edited and above all rich in matter. I can imagine that the Chinese audience must have tough time going through the film. In the film, the Communist Chinese are portrayed as true Bollywood Villien, Gulshen and Amrish puri, who rapes, steals, opresses and murders. Finally when the film ends, one of the Chinese scholars gets up and shouted at his peak voice, ‘liar, fabricated, what about all the positive things that we brought to Tibet? Tibet is never a free country!’But the poor scholar did’t realize that his action actually added more climax to our show. The audience’s reaction to the film wouldn’t be that much convincing hadn’t he shouted at the end. So, on behalf of all the six million Tibetan people, I must also thank him for his shouting. Later, I learned that the sholar boasted of his action in the Chinese student’s web forum at our university. I am sure that the film ask new question mark in their brain about Tibet and its political status. It is not necessary that they agree our stand at the very begining since they are educated by their Uncle Communist. After watching film, I realized that there is hope to our cause and I assure all my brothers and sister that there is still market for our non violence action in the world. We must not loose our heart in our endevour. Long live Tibet, long live humanity.
