“From Our Eyes”
Since 2013, I have been actively engaged with a community-based project called “From Our Eyes”, which supports Indigenous audiovisual creation and the revitalization of local culture. As a member of the project, I have been teaching filmmaking in the communities of eastern Tibet, supporting herdsmen, monks and young students in making films that address social, cultural and environmental issues of local interest.
I had the privilege of being in the artist team working with the Jigme Gyaltsen Welfare School to establish its new program of Film and Video Production, which is the very first school program in this field in Tibet. In 2022, the textbook Introduction to Media Production and the Exploration of Eco-cinema Practice in Tibet that I co-authored with colleagues was published. The book is in dual languages of Tibetan and Chinese, and it is the first comprehensive textbook on media production published in Tibetan language and intended for Tibetan audiences.