Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), July 12 : In an effort to do her bit for the Tibetan struggle for freedom, a 28-year-old Tibetan woman in the US has organised a Tibetan Film Festival this month.
The event will be held July 23-24 at the Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, Oregon, and aims to help inform her community about the situation in Tibet.
Award-winning films such as “Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama”, “What Remains of Us”, “We’re No Monks” and “Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion” will be screened.
“I’ve been working hard on this for the past six months in my free time as my contribution to our movement,” says Tenzin Yeshi, organiser of the Tibetan Film Festival.
The festival will also include a Tibetan Art and Culture Exhibit, and a Tibetan Bazaar, which will feature Tibetan food.
“If every Tibetan around the world either organised even one volunteer project per year or helped with organising one, our movement for freedom would grow by leaps and bounds in educating the public about what is really going on in Tibet,” said Yeshi.
“I’m counting on each Tibetan in the states of Washington and Oregon to help make this a successful event to reach out to potentially 2,000 plus people. This is every Tibetan’s project. I only helped organise it.”
All proceeds from the Tibetan Film Festival will be donated to Students for a Free Tibet, a student-led organisation that started 10 years ago and today has 650 chapters in 35 countries.
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has been heading the Tibetan government-in-exile in India since 1959 when he fled his native land following a failed uprising against Beijing.
