Lynn True
After graduating from Brown University with
a joint degree in Urban Studies and Architecture, Lynn worked on feature films and documentary programs for NBC News and PBS. She has made numerous films including iThemba|Hope (Sundance Channel, 2005) and
LUMO (Student Academy Award winner,
PBS/P.O.V., 2007). Lynn’s most recent film, Summer Pasture (
PBS/Independent Lens, 2012), was nominated for an IFP Gotham Independent Film Award and a Film Independent Spirit Award. Lynn first traveled to Tibet in 2006 as a documentarian for the Kham Geotourism Project, a joint initiative of the
Tibetan & Himalayan Library and
Machik, and it was out of this experience that she and Nelson Walker decided to launch the Kham Film Project.
Lynn@khamfilmproject.org
Nelson Walker III
Nelson began his career working on documentaries for Discovery Channel, History Channel and PBS’s NOVA. His directorial debut,
iThemba|Hope, aired on Sundance Channel in 2005. His second film,
LUMO, won a Student Academy Award and was broadcast on
PBS's P.O.V. in 2007. His latest film, Summer Pasture (PBS/Independent Lens, 2012), was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award and a Film Independent Spirit Award. Nelson is also co-founder/director, with Lynn True, of the annual Tibet in Harlem and Congo in Harlem film festivals at New York's Maysles Cinema. Nelson holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University.
Nelson@khamfilmproject.org
Cecil Matthai Esquivel-Obregón is the former Director of Post-Production and Director of the Digital Media Center for the Film Division at the School of the Arts, Columbia University. Cecil graduated from MIT with a major in Artificial Intelligence applied to interactive fiction at the MIT Media Lab, and then received his MFA from Columbia University in Film. He has written and directed various fiction shorts and documentaries, worked in production at UltraFilms in Mexico City, and been a cameraman for various feature-length documentaries yet to be released, and a still photographer for a forthcoming series of books on trees. His films have been exhibited at the Galería Pecanins in Mexico City.
Tsering Key attended the Sichuan Province Tibetan School where she graduated first in her class. Originally from Zachukha, she currently lives in New York City working as a translator and consultant.
Dhondup Lhamo was born in Ba Lhagang and raised in Dharamsala, India. She now lives in New York City where she works as a translator and consultant while studying for her nursing degree.
Tsering Perlo founded
Rabsal, a local Tibetan NGO that engages Tibetans in documentary filmmaking to preserve and regenerate Tibetan culture and customs. A native of Zachuka (Shiqu) County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and a graduate of the Sichuan Province Tibetan School (SPTI), Perlo has worked with the Tibet Fund, The Bridge Fund and with the Tibetan & Himalayan Library at the University of Virginia. Perlo is the first recipient of the Machik Fellowship, a program designed to support dynamic Tibetan change-makers working to strengthen their communities and environments.
