Emmy Statuette

WOMEN OF TIBET: A QUIET REVOLUTION
is awarded a 2009 EMMY®
for
Historic/Cultural – Program/Special
at the 38th ANNUAL 2008-2009 Northern California Area EMMY® Awards

 

 
Emmy ticket front
 

 

It was a blessing to share such an auspicious evening with many dear friends and supporters,
and for those who couldn’t share our experience…

Welcome to Our Night at the EMMYs®
San Francisco’s downtown Palace Hotel, the Gold Ballroom, sparkling conversation and cocktails
enliven the reception as precious friends and supporters arrive ready to celebrate our nomination.
Everyone looks elegant in black tie and evening dress. Even I clean up pretty good!
It is comforting to see familiar faces radiant with joy and good will.
The excitement is palpable. Background chamber music provides a calming effect.
Almost before we ‘arrive’ it is time to take our seats for the dinner and awards ceremony.

 

Emmy_Reception

 

As we move into the Grand ballroom, elsewhere, EMMY® waits patiently …
Behind the scenes, around a table of EMMY®s, organizers flutter and fuss as “Presenters in Waiting” hover
before making their entrance to announce the next category’s winner.

 

Emmy_Table

 

Lights dim as anticipation rises…
Master of Ceremonies: Political comic Will Durst outlines the shape of things to come
The atmosphere is electric, honorees and revelers alike can hardly contain their enthusiasm.
With each course of food, the tension mounts, suspense builds and who cares about the food anyway, right?

 

Grand_Dinner

 

And The Winner is…
I hear our category called – Historic/Cultural – Program/Special

then the name of our film Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution – Frame of Mind Films followed by the other three contenders: Assignment Africa – CBS 5, Milk, The Man, The Movie – CBS 5, Betrayal: The Life and Art of Rudolf Bauer – KRON 4 I hear the presenters talking about opening the envelope, “And the EMMY® goes to Women of… in my head, everything goes into slow motion, I hear a huge roar then nothing more until I am aware of someone nudging me, saying, “go on, you’ve got to go up…”

 

And-The-Winner-Is

 

Shock does strange things and even though I might look as if I know what happened, it is all a surreal experience. I have no recollection of how I got on or off the stage or what happened between those two points. I am giddy with joy, and I am speechless. I find myself thinking that the real winners are the Tibetans yet I can’t get my brain to connect with what is coming out of my mouth. I hear myself thinking that winning this award is true recognition that in their 50th year in exile, Tibetans in Tibet are not forgotten and one-day all Tibetans will be free to be Tibetans in Tibet. I see ABC 7’s news anchor Cheryl Jennings beaming her congratulations up at me from the table directly in front of the podium, and I thank her for the story she did on our film at a time when I was trying to keep the project alive. And somehow I am now in front of a camera holding …

 

With-The-Statue

 

The Golden Girl captivates everyone. Bottom left in clockwise order:
Holly Hine, Bob Foley and Sunny Shine, Sondra Alexander, Will Parrinello (also a winner tonight) and Rosemary,
Tenzin Tethong, Sondra Alexander, Peter McCandless.

 

Back-At-The-Table

 

It is truly an honor to have been awarded the EMMY® and I am excited for what the future holds for all of us, especially for the Tibetans. But Ooops, in all the excitement we missed capturing photos of all our special guests:
from the Dalai Lama Foundation, Marsha Clark, Karen Schembs, and Jim Schuyler, and Armando Telles, Miriam’s father.
Next time!

 

Photo Credit: June Zandona, Tsering Dorjee Bawa, and Pierre Schwob

 

Footnote: Since this spectacular evening, I’ve given several interviews – two to Radio Free Asia, the first of which has already broadcast and been heard all over India, in Central Tibet, and in Kham in Eastern Tibet.

 

 radio-free-asia

 

To listen to another interview click here to reach Sky’s blog at the Dalai Lama Foundation.

 

The response from the Tibetan Community has been phenomenal.
You can read some of the messages that began to arrive once news of the EMMY® was announced.

My profound gratitude to Peter, Miriam and everyone involved in the making of Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution.

 

And thank YOU for all your good wishes, support, and encouragement over the past 10 years.

~ Rosemary Rawcliffe

 

 

Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution

 
 
CREDITS
Executive Producer
Rosemary Rawcliffe

A Documentary Film
Produced, Directed & Written by
Rosemary Rawcliffe

 

Co-Writers
Catherine Butler & Miriam Telles

 

Editor
Miriam Telles

 

Director of Photography
Peter McCandless

 

Re-Recording Mixer
Paul James Zahnley, C.A.S.
Disher Music & Sound

 

Original Music by
Michael Becker
with guest
Tsering Dorjee Bawa

 

Title Design by
Deborah Ross Film Design
Title Animation
Robert Vega

 

Additional Camera
Joy Quigley & June Zandona

 

Camera Assistant
Aram Fischer & June Zandona

 

Post Production Associate
Lencsi Angel

 

Researchers
Lisa Hartjens & Linda Milks

 

On-Line Facility
Video Arts, Inc. SF
On-Line Editor
Jonathan Vargo
Jesse Spencer
Colorist
Ed Rudolph
Motion Graphics
Ben Kopman

 

Archival Photo Retouching
June Zandona

 

Production Associates
Lencsi Angel, June Zandona,
Aram Fischer, Catherine Nightingale

 

Translations
Tenzin Bhuchung, Pema Chogkhan, Tseten Choden
Tenzin Ngodup, Tenzin Sherab, Nyima Wangmo
Dolma Tsering Teykhang, Dawa Dorjee

 

Transcripts
Frako Loden, Aram Fischer

 

PBS Distribution Consultant
Cynthia Zeiden – Zeiden Media

 

Legal & Financial Consultant
Jim Jourdonnais
Jim Jourdonnais & Associates
Production Accounting
Padma Holland

 

Interns
Lencsi Angel, June Zandona,
Catherine Nightingale, Aram Fischer,

 

Special Thanks
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama,
Jetsun Pema, Rinchen Khando Choegyal,
Ama Adhe Tapontsang, Dolma Tsering Teykhang
Kasang Takla, Tseten Choeden & Simon Schneiter and Rinchen, Sonam,
and Trinley Schneiter, Samdup Dolma, Pema Chogkhan, Tenzin Peldon

 

Prison Sequences
Tashi Dolma & Tenzin Dasang Subhar

 

Universal Newsreel Narration
Josh Lebowitz

 

India – Production Consultants
Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam – White Crane Films
Travel – Pema Wangchuk

 

Stills, Stock & Archival Footage
Rinchen Khando Choegyal, Jetsun Pema,
Khedroob Thondup,
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives,
Central Tibetan Administration,
Tibetan Museum & DIIR – Dharamsala, Norbulingka Institute – Suligar,
National Archives, William Bacon Productions, Monsal Pekar Desal,
Home Planet Productions, Garthwaite & Griffin Films, Inc
Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zuerich
Heinrich Harrer, Bureau de Tibet – Paris,
BFI – National Archive,
Tseten & Simon Schneiter, Michael Chen
Permission for the use of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s
image courtesy of the Private Office of His Holiness, Dharamsala, India

 

Thanks to everyone at
The Dalai Lama Foundation, CA
Kashmir Cottage – Dharamsala
Tibetan Children’s Village – Dharamsala
Nobulingka Handicraft Center – Suligar
Tibetan Handicraft Center, Tibetan Museum
Reception Center – McLeod Ganj
Tibetan Institute of the Performing Arts
Voice of Tibet
Hotel Tibet, McLeod Ganj
Tibetan Day School – Gopalphur,

 

Advisors & Consultants
Rinchen Khando Choegyal, Tenzin Choegyal,
Tenzin Namgyal Tethong, Tenzin Taklha, Tenzin Geyche Tethong
Dr. Martin Brauen, Simon Normanton, Jan Faull

 

Marilyn Fowler
& the Women’s Intercultural Network
for providing Fiscal Sponsorship in part

 

We wish to acknowledge the following individuals without
whose generous support this project would not have been possible

 

Saurin Sunny Shine, Joan and Bill Porter,
Lynn Hays, Sondra Alexander, Marisla Foundation, Pamela Krasney, Sheryl Leach,
The Pacific Pioneer Fund, Aleksandar Totic, Pierre Schwob,
Chinese Women’s Assn. of America

 

Very Special thanks
Sondra Alexander, Lori and Bob Warmington, Dori Caillouette, Marilyn Sutton, Dulcie and Larry Kugelman, Mary Fischer, Jane Bruce, Sally Fisher,
Ellen Bruno, Wayne & Gayle Van Dyck, Leni Miller, Cate Hunter, Louise Wilkinson, Caroline Pick, Bettina Gray, Jennifer Harrington, Cathie Du Chene,
Cherie Porter, Denise and David Weinstein, Tenzin Tethong, Marsha Clark, Angeles Arrien, Margery Gibbons Farrar, Signe Shaw, Winston Ching,
Therese Stacy, Tony and Linda Hoeber, Anam Thubten Rinpoche, Carla Charny, Sharon Baggett, Michelle Jordan, Jetsun Chimey Luding, Steve Opson,
Andrew Harvey, Ruth Moen, Deyden Thethong, Robin Garthwaite, Dan Griffin, Annie McCaffry, Mary Anne McCabe, Janet Thompson,
Eva Najberg, David Milne, Steve Pappas, Thrinley Di Marco, Peter and Stephanie Coyote, Peter McCandless, Aram Fischer, Miriam Telles,
Catherine Butler, Catherine Nightingale, June Zandona, Lencsi Angel, Maria Sundeen, Will Parrinello,
Tom Piozet, Diane Lee, Jean Schulz, Charlene Harvey, Cheryl Jennings, Davy Davidson, Nancy Kittle

 

And thanks to our many anonymous supporters for their kindness and generosity.

 

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