Enjoy an evening of Tibetan films by Tibetans living in exile in India and from The Tibetan Photo Project. Joe Mickey, founder of The Tibetan Photo Project will provide insights and Q&A on the films.

Music on Wheels (17 min) By Tashi Dhunop is a surprising train journey across India with Tibetan rock Musicians who discover young Indian musicians who survive by playing on the trains. Dhunop is a contemporary film maker and  Fulbright scholar who majored in media and journalism.

Prayers Answered (29 minutes) By Geleck Palsang.
On the invitation and prayers of tribal leaders, the Dalai Lama travels to a poor and remote Muslim village at the India Pakistan border. More than a symbolic gesture, the visit results in an invitation by the Dalai Lama to provided a modern education to children from the village while insuring their religious and cultural heritage. Without the work of this self-taught film maker, this remarkable story of the Dalai Lama's visit and its results to a remote Muslim village in northern India would never be known to the world.  Palsang is currently working as part of the crew on a Tibetan epic being wrapped Mumbai, India / Bollywood. There is no doubt given his path, Geleck will become a major Tibetan film maker.

Visually and Respectfully Yours, The Story of The Tibetan Photo Project  (76 minutes) Produced by Joe Mickey and Sazzy Varga and directed in by Tibetans living in exile in India tells the story of an incredible accidental decade long journey of Mickey, a Western photographer. It begins with a monk and one disposable camera and grew into and effort that has expanded the voice of Tibetans through their own films and photographs. The film travels to Tibetan exile communities in Delhi, northern India and the rarely seen Tibetan colonies in southern India. As Tibetans direct this film, count on surprising and heartwarming moments.

Voices in Exile  (65 minutes) By Tenzin Wangden Andrugtsang is the first feature documentary from The Tibetan Photo Project. Supplying Wangden with a camera and computer editing bay,Voices in Exile is the first feature documentary film made completely from the Tibetan point of view.
Tenzin Wangden Andrugtsang has been a teacher and was a former secretary in the Office of the Dalai Lama. He has been a lifelong activist for Tibet.

Save Tibet...Why? (60 min approx) Produced by Joe Mickey and Sazzy Varga is the sequel to Visually  as The Tibetan Photo Project co-founders return to India for an update that is again directed in Tibetan communities by Tibetans. Through the 10 years of work by The Tibetan Project, Mickey and Varga are given unique access into the communities and lives of Tibetans. Mickey has been a photographer, film maker and teacher for over 40 years. Varga works as a producer, actress and model in the Hollywood community. This will be a very special advance screening of this new film, scheduled for release world-wide through screening parties scheduled around the world later this year.

A portion of the evenings proceeds will benefit the work of The Tibetan Photo Project and the goal to establish basic film maker education centers in three Tibetan communities in India.