When film producer Ginny Galloway contacted me in November 2014 asking if I was interested in helping to launch the first Bhutan International Film Festival, I had to give it some serious thought. Bhutan is a long way from Woodstock. It's a small, Buddhist, developing country set at the foot of the Himalayas between India and China, known for its Gross National Happiness and attention to environmental conservation. With only eight pilots in the world skilled enough to fly safely into Bhutan because of its harsh mountainous terrain, Bhutan is not an easy country to get to. Given that Bhutan, a monarchy steeped in tradition, had only introduced television and the Internet to its people in 1999, I figured a film festival would be an entirely new adventure for them. Read More: How to Make a Movie in a Country with Virtually No Film Funding Eventually, the idea of launching something entirely...
- 3/10/2015
- by Meira Blaustein
- Indiewire
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