The Monastery Cook
Tibetan Stories: part 1
Tenpa Choedar is a Tibetan refugee and head cook within the Namgyal Monastery of Dharamsala, India; exile home of the Central Tibetan Authority and the 14th Dalai Lama. During special teachings, the kitchen staff will prepare breakfast and lunch for over 5,000 temple visitors.
Client: Int'l Center for Mental Health & Human Rights
The Thangka Painter
Tibetan Stories: part 5
Karma Sichoe is a traditionally trained painter and orphan raised within the community of Tibetan refugees in northern India. As an activist he struggles to find a path forward, balancing tradition and modernity, where his conventional craft cannot give voice to his political perspectives.
Client: Int'l Center for Mental Health & Human Rights
The Counter Revolutionary
Tibetan Stories: part 3
Ama Adhe is a cherished member of the Tibetan exile community where she serves as a historian, regularly recounting her 27 years spent as a political prisoner, where she endured extraordinary hardships, including surviving the famine of Mao Zedong's fatally flawed "Great Leap Forward" agricultural campaign.
Client: Int'l Center for Mental Health & Human Rights
Letchworth State Park
Four Seasons of Aerial Cinematography
Located in western New York state, Letchworth State Park has been nicknamed, the "Grand Canyon of the East." This is a condensed version of a 15-minute non-narrative, installation commissioned for screening within the atrium of the park's new visitor's center, in order to highlight the forest and river ecology of the gorge throughout the year.
Client: NYS, Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preserv.
Producer: Jason Ward, Candy Factory Films
FAA Remote UAS Pilot License No. 3990242
Producer: Jason Ward, Candy Factory Films
Land of Canaan
An expanded trailer for a feature length documentary currently in production regarding ecological and economic sustainability through fair trade agriculture in the Palestinian West Bank.
Director: Maggie Lemere
Director of Photography: Carey Russell
