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The Refugees of Shangri-La
Film Screening
Monday, November 4 - 7 PM
Red River Theatres
Panel Discussion Following Film Featuring:
Co-Directors Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter;
Tika Acharya, Bhutanese Community of NH
Presented by:
Bhutanese Community of NH
Red River Theatres
World Affairs Council of NH
Red River Theatres
11 S. Main Street
Concord NH 03101
Tickets: $12/General Admission
$30/VIP
(VIP ticket includes entrance to the pre-screening reception starting at 6pm. Share food, drink and conversation with the film's directors and members of the Bhutanese Community of NH)
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Film Information:
Documentary (Bhutan, refugees, resettlement); approx. 51 minutes
Directed by: Doria Bramante, Markus Weinfurter
Produced by: Doria Bramante, Markus Weinfurter, Adam Fish, Marc Dole
Description
The Refugees of Shangri-La explores the indomitable spirit of an ethnic minority, made refugees, from the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. After twenty years in exile, many abandon hopes of returning to their mother land seek a future in a place called America. The film features Manchester and Concord residents!
Plot Outline
In the shadow of Bhutan’s lofty ideal of Gross National Happiness and its golden image as the “Last Shangri-la” hide 107,000 people who fled a militaristic insurgency as their peaceful kingdom turned against them. With their villages burning behind them, men, women, children and grandparents fled into the Indian jungles, bewildered, never to return to the land they love.
After twenty years living in bamboo huts and barbed wire parameters in Nepal, the Refugees of Shangri-La break a solution-less cycle and brave a new course, due west.
The film follows a community on a journey into a strange new world, striving against daunting odds with hope, optimism and an enduring smile as they change not only their own lives, but ours as well.
Website: http://www.therefugeesofshangrila.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRefugeesOfShangriLa
Film Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHn1IiaLmoA
About the Panelists:
Doria Bramante – Producer/Director Born and raised in the costal woodlands of New Hampshire, Doria is well rounded artist driven by her fundamental belief in peace. She strives to build understanding, compassion and a greater sense of our shared humanity through the power of story, be it through film, theater, photography or writing. She is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, an award winning actress, a published writer and photographer and has sang the national anthem for President Barack Obama.
Markus Weinfurter – Producer/Director Makus Weinfurter studied Political and Social Studies at the Johann-Wolfgang von Goehte University in Frankfurt, Germany. He focused on international and foreign politics and hermeneutics. He directed and edited documentaries on internationally traveling theater groups and works as an independent theater artist and performer in companies such as www.antagon.de and www.caravanstage.org. He has travelled the entire European Continent, the USA and India.
Tika Acharya – Executive Director, Bhutanese Community of New Hampshire Acharya is among the hundreds of Bhutanese refugees who have settled in Manchester in recent years, and he has emerged as a leader of the community not only here, but across the state. Having completed his MBA in India, Acharya has used his language skills and training to help the wider community. Over the past three years, Tika Acharya has led a nonprofit refugee organization, worked as a contract manager in NH, interned at a major insurance company and, most recently, helped community members open a small business in Manchester. He is also a representative for the UNHCR Refugee Congress.
