page_title: Ngawang Choephel
section_title: Documentary Film projects
hierarchical_section_title: Ngawang Choephel / Documentary Film projects
context_page_description: Ngawang Choephel is a documentary filmmaker, director and producer.
context_section_description: Choephel resumed working on his documentary film project upon his release from prison in 2002. He directed and produced Tibet in Song, which is his first feature-length documentary on traditional Tibetan folk music and his own harrowing journey into the past fifty years of cultural repression inside Chinese controlled Tibet. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 where it won a Special Jury Award in the World Documentary Competition. Was had its initial theatrical release in New York City on September 24, 2010, with plans for U.S. and worldwide release thereafter.
  Since then, Tibet in Song has been screened worldwide and has won numerous awards, including back using; the CINE Golden Eagle Award; Emerging Director Award, AAIFF; Best Documentary, Calgary International Film Festival; Cinema for Peace International Human Rights Award, Berlin; Best Documentary, San Louis Obispo International Film Festival; Special Jury Mention, One World International Film Festival Prague; Audience Award, Watch Docs International Human Rights Film Festival; Special Jury Mention, Watch Docs International Human Rights Film Festival and Audience Award, Movies that Matter, the Hague. Choephel also is a recipient of Independent Film Project.
  "Missing in Tibet", a film realised on his story received the prize for "best Human Rights Film" at a film festival in Taos, New Mexico.
  Ngawang Choephel currently resides in the United States and continues to be a high-profile member of the exiled Tibetan community.
caption: Ngawang Choephel speaking about his film (holding a Tibetan lute)
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