Director Tenzin Tsetan Choklay won the 2014 Prix du Jury des jeunes Européens for the film Bringing Tibet Home at the 27th FIPA - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in Biarritz, France.
[3] In 2011, New York-based Tibetan artist and activist Tenzing Rigdol helped thousands of his countrymen living in exile to temporarily return home.
Inspired by his inability to fulfill his dying father's final wish to once again visit his homeland, Rigdol risked incarceration to smuggle 20,000 kg of Tibetan soil from Tibet through the Himalayas to Dharamshala, in India.
Filmmaker Tenzin Tsetan Choklay documented the entirety of Rigdol's ambitious project, creating an extraordinary documentary - one that is both a moving portrait of a dispossessed people and an inspiring tribute to the transformative power of art.
[4] Winner: Prix du Jury des jeunes Européens - 27th FIPA - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2014 Nominated: FIPA d'or Grand reportage et Investigation - - 27th FIPA - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2014 Nominated: Jury Award San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2014[5][6] Nominated: Competition Mecenat Award Busan International Film Festival 2013 [7]