Pema Tseden

Pema Tseden
Pema Tseden at the La Rochelle International Film Festival in 2012.
Native name Template:པད་མ་ཚེ་བརྟན།
Born December 1969 (age 48)
Guide County, Qinghai, China
Nationality Chinese
Alma mater Northwest University for Nationalities
Beijing Film Academy
Occupation Director, screenwriter
Years active 1991–present
Organization China Film Directors' Guild
China Film Association
Chinese Film Literature Association
Notable work The Silent Holy Stones
Tharlo

Pema Tseden (Tibetan: པད་མ་ཚེ་བརྟན།, Wylie: pad ma tshe brtan ), also called Wanma Tsaidan (simplified Chinese: 万玛才旦; traditional Chinese: 萬瑪才旦; pinyin: Wàn mǎ cái dàn; born December 1969), is a Tibetan film director and screenwriter of Chinese citizenship. He is a member of the China Film Directors' Guild, China Film Association and Chinese Film Literature Association.

Biography

Early life and education

Pema Tseden was born into a pastoral family, in Guide County, Qinghai, in December 1969, during the Cultural Revolution. He is the only one of three siblings to have finished school.[1] He graduated from Northwest University for Nationalities, where he majored in Tibetan Language and Literature. After graduation, he worked as a primary school teacher and a civil servant. Then he pursued advanced studies at China's most prestigious film school, Beijing Film Academy, where he became the Academy's first-ever Tibetan student.[1][2]

Career

Pema Tseden's debut work, The Silent Holy Stones, won the Best Directorial Debut at the 25th Golden Rooster Awards, Asian New Talent Award for Best Director at the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival, Special Jury Award at the 8th Changchun Film Festival, and Best First Feature at the 13th Beijing College Student Film Festival.

In 2009, Soul Searching won the Special Jury Award at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival and was nominated for Golden Goblet Award.

Tharlo, a film adaptation based on the novel of the same name by himself, won the Best Adapted Screenplay at the 52nd Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, it also prizes in the 23rd Beijing College Student Film Festival, and the film was nominated for Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.[3][4]

Two colleagues reported that Pema Tseden had been detained at Qinghai airport by police in late June 2016 and was hospitalised after having been subjected to all-night interrogation.[5]

Filmography

Film

YearEnglish titleChinese titleNotes
2002The Silent Holy Stones《静静的嘛呢石》
2004The Grassland《草原》[6]
The Weatherman's Legacy《最后的防雹师》
2007Soul Searching (or The Search)《寻找智美更登》
《嘎陀大法会》
《桑耶寺》
2011Old Dog《老狗》[7]
2009Flares Wafting in 1983《喇叭裤飘荡在1983》
2014The Sacred Arrow《五彩神箭》
2015Tharlo《塔洛》
2018Jinpa《撞死了一只羊》

Awards

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultNotes
200525th Golden Rooster AwardsBest Directorial DebutThe Silent Holy StonesWon
10th Busan International Film FestivalNew Currents AwardNominated
20069th Shanghai International Film FestivalAsian New Talent Award for Best DirectorWon
8th Changchun Film FestivalBest DirectorNominated
Special Jury AwardWon
13th Beijing College Student Film FestivalBest First FeatureWon
20077th Chinese Film Media AwardBest New DirectorNominated
200912th Shanghai International Film FestivalGolden GobletSoul SearchingNominated
Special Jury AwardWon
201112th Tokyo Future International Film FestivalBest PictureOld DogWon
2012Brooklyn Film FestivalBest Native FeatureWon[8]
201417th Shanghai International Film FestivalGolden GobletThe Sacred ArrowNominated
201572nd Venice International Film FestivalGolden LionTharloNominated
Chinese Film Directors AssociationScreenwriter of the YearAll Colors God ArrowNominated
52nd Golden Horse Film Festival and AwardsBest DirectorTharloNominated
Best Adapted ScreenplayWon
Best Feature FilmNominated
201623rd Beijing College Student Film FestivalArtistic Exploration AwardWon
Best PictureNominated
Best DirectorNominated
201875th Venice International Film FestivalBest ScreenplayJinpaWon[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Pema Tseden: Tibetan Films for Tibetan People". Asia Society. 2010-04-10.
  2. ↑ "Film Series: Soul-Searching in Tibet". Asia Society and Museum. 2010-04-15.
  3. ↑ 万玛才旦导演作品《塔洛》获金马奖四项提名. Ifeng (in Chinese). 2015-10-02.
  4. ↑ Guo Rui and Du Xinmao (2015-11-17). 万玛才旦：我不是塔洛，他太孤独. Ifeng (in Chinese).
  5. ↑ "Tibetan filmmaker hospitalised after being taken from Chinese airport by police – report". Hong Kong Free Press. 2016-06-29.
  6. ↑ Tenzin Dickyi (2010-07-28). "The Grasslands - a film by Pema Tsetan". Where Tibetans Write.
  7. ↑ "FILM DETAILS: OLD DOG". Brooklyn Film Festival.
  8. ↑ "Tibetan filmmaker wins 'Best Feature' at Brooklyn Film Festival". Catholic Online. 2012-06-13.
  9. ↑ "Chinese film Jinpa wins Orizzonti prize at Venice". China Daily. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
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