Blog one of four on the Chinese film industry in Tibet #gabriellafitte Gang Rinpoche is a story of a farming/herding family, their everyday piety, the routines of taking out the yaks to graze, of going to the woodlands to gather firewood, cut to length and split, loaded onto pack yaks, to be stacked near the […]
blog two of four on movies filmed in Tibet #gabriellafitte For a while, Gang Rinpoche/Paths of the Soul was a surprise hit with Chinese audiences, doing better than Hollywood megamovie Transformers, released at the same time. Media speculated why. ANATOMY OF A FAILURE: GANG RINPOCHE RISES WITHOUT A TRACE Throughout Gang Ripoche the director […]
Blog three of four on the Chinese film industry in Tibet #gabriellafitte THE LAND OF TIBET IS THE MOST EXPRESSIVE CHARACTER YOU SEE Chinese movie directors increasingly make Tibet the set. It helps a lot if you film in Tibet, and if the landscapes and people of Tibet do much of the work of carrying […]
Is Tibet a genre in its own right? Blog four of four on the Chinese film industry in Tibet: this is a coda. #gabriellafitte Movie directors in China have a hard time. Directors anywhere must juggle finance, script, casting, shifts in public taste, and the years it usually takes between acquiring rights and hitting the […]