Lunana A Yak in the Classroom
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Lunana A Yak in the Classroom
going to watch this as
soon as Bhutan opens i am heading up there, been on my bucket list for years
about the movie:
watch it here
https://availablegreg.blogspot.com/2021 ... watch.html
soon as Bhutan opens i am heading up there, been on my bucket list for years
about the movie:
https://m.bdnews24.com/en/detail/film/2014194As a crew of 35 people prepared to make a movie in Bhutan’s remote Lunana Valley, they faced a slew of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
The valley had no electricity. It could only be reached by walking eight days from the nearest village. And the schoolchildren who were expected to star in the film knew nothing about acting or cinema.
“They did not even know what a camera was or what it looked like,” Namgay Dorji, the village schoolteacher, said in a telephone interview.
On Tuesday, the movie, “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom,” was nominated for an Academy Award — a first for Bhutan. Its director, Pawo Choyning Dorji, said he had been on an “improbable journey” ever since deciding to shoot the film, his first, in a Himalayan village about 3 miles above sea level.
“It was so improbable that I thought I wouldn’t be able to finish,” said Dorji, 38, who is from a rural part of Bhutan that is east of Lunana.
“Somehow we now find ourselves nominated for an Oscar,” he added. “When I found out, it was so unbelievable that I kept telling my friends, ‘What if I wake up tomorrow and I realise all this was a dream?’”
watch it here
https://availablegreg.blogspot.com/2021 ... watch.html
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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