Making Movies on the Plateau
Jigme Trinley
Release year: 2017
Run time: 28 minutes
Film type: Documentary
Synopsis
Director biography
Catalogue of work:
Short documentary Geng Nong;
short drama Home;
short drama One Thought;
short documentary Making Movies on the Plateau;
short drama Deliverance;
feature film One and Four.
Director's statement
As a young Tibetan filmmaker, after gaining some knowledge of your own social identity and of film itself, you begin to think about how you and the Tibetan filmmakers like you operate in the industry. So, I interviewed and filmed members of crews in different positions, trying to present a multi-layered view of the current state of development of some Tibetan filmmakers by exploring their origins within cinema, their attitudes and perceptions of cinema, and their plans for their own future. This short film was an assignment I made in my second year of university, and I completed it in a rather simple and crude way while working with the crew in an impulsive and muddled manner. Although it has a lot of shortcomings and is relatively immature, you can see my creative state and some of my thoughts at that time. In a few years, I hope to make a full-length version of Making Movies on the Plateau, which will always be worth doing.
Awards:
- Columbia University East Asia Department Internal Screening
- University of Toronto Tibetan Studies
- Department Internal Screening, Tibetan Beginnings Unit Youth Video Week Screening