Journey from Zanskar 從扎斯卡到達蘭薩拉

 
導演│Frederick Marx 福瑞德瑞克馬克思

【影片介紹】About the Film


為了拯救消逝中的傳統文化，你願意走多遠的路？

2004年洛桑格西（Geshe Lobsang Yonten）受到達賴喇嘛開示的啟發，決定展開一項計畫，讓位於喀什米爾卡吉爾地區扎斯卡的斯東得寺院（Stongde Monastery），優先發展兒童教育。因為扎斯卡當地雖然已有一些學校，但不教藏文；格西擔心若不行動，扎斯卡當地的藏語文和圖博文化將在未來三十年內消失。

因此，在2004年，洛桑格西領著17名兒童，從扎斯卡出發，先到馬納利（Manali），再前進到圖博流亡政府所在地的達蘭薩拉（Dharamsala）接受教育。這段旅程歷經千辛萬苦，從山間小徑、連續迴轉的山口、再到封閉的小路。本片由支持圖博運動的知名美國演員李察吉爾（Richard Gere）擔任旁白。影片中以長鏡頭捕捉偏遠地區的美麗景觀，同時記錄這樣一段艱鉅的奮鬥旅程。

Zanskar is the last remaining original Tibetan Buddhist society with a continuous untainted lineage dating back thousands of years. In nearby Tibet and Ladakh, in Sikkim, Bhutan, and Nepal, traditional Tibetan Buddhist culture is either dead already or dying. The horror of Chinese government design in Tibet is being matched by the destruction of global economics elsewhere. Zanskar, ringed by high Himalayan mountains in northwest India, one of the most remote places on the planet, has been safe until now. But that’s changing.

In 3-5 years a road connecting Padum, the heart of Zanskar, with Leh, the heart of neighboring Ladakh, will be finished. The route which previously took up to two days by car will take only 4-5 hours. As economic growth descends on Zanskar it will bring with it an end to this unbroken Buddhist social tradition. Will the native language, culture, and religious practice be able to survive?

The Dalai Lama has instructed two monks from Zanskar’s Stongde Monastery to do everything in their power to insure that it does. The monks are building a school to educate the children from surrounding villages in their own language, culture, history, and religion. Presently, the government school teaches none of those subjects, and is closed most of the year. The nearby private school also doesn’t teach those subjects and is additionally unaffordable for the area’s poor families. At Stongde, along with indigenous traditions, the children will be educated in the best Western curricula.

The monks are racing against the clock. While they complete the school they are also placing local children in other schools and monasteries in the city of Manali and beyond. This requires walking over a 17,500 foot pass. On foot. On horseback. Led by yaks... Whatever it takes.

【導演介紹】About the Director

福瑞德瑞克．馬克思（Frederick Marx）這位於電影界服務了35年的製片、導演、寫作兼剪輯，大多時間替獨立製作電影工作。曾經任教英文創意寫作的馬克思，以書寫電影評論開始他的電影職涯，他曾做過電影經銷與策展商。馬克思旅居過許多國家，居住過德國、中國及匈牙利。他時常造訪西歐與東歐、北非及印度喜馬拉雅地區。馬克思監製的電影「籃球夢（Hoop Dreams）」贏得日舞影展（Sundance Film Festival）最佳觀眾票選獎後，旋即在無數戲院轟動上映。本片是他的最新作品，由好萊塢知名巨星李察吉爾旁白。

Frederick Marx is an internationally acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy nominated director/writer with 35 years in the film business. He was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year for 1994, a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award. His film HOOP DREAMS played in hundreds of theatres nationwide after winning the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was the first documentary ever chosen to close the New York Film Festival. It was on over 100"Ten Best" lists nationwide and was named Best Film of the Year by critics Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Gene Shalit, and Ken Turran and by the Chicago Film Critics Association. Ebert also named it Best Film of the Decade. It is one of the highest grossing non-musical documentaries in United States history.

It has won numerous prestigious awards, including an Academy Nomination (Best Editing), Producer's Guild, Editor's Guild (ACE), Peabody Awards, the Prix Italia (Europe's top documentary prize) and The National Society of Film Critics Award. The New York, Boston, LA, and San Francisco Film Critics all chose it as Best Documentary, 1994. Utne Reader named it one of 150 of humanity's essential works, and the Library of Congress recently added it to its prestigious National Film Registry. HOOP DREAMS (1994) is the film that first interested Marx in the welfare of teenage boys. BOYS TO MEN? (2004) distributed by Media Education Foundation takes that as its central theme. BOYS BECOME MEN, now in production, is the sequel, pinpointing initiation and mentorship as the solutions to the problems teen boys face.

In 1993, Marx received an Emmy nomination for HIGHER GOALS (1992) for Best Daytime Children's Special. Producer, Director, and Writer for this national PBS Special, Marx directed Tim Meadows of "Saturday Night Live" fame. Accompanied by a curriculum guide, the program was later distributed for free to over 4,200 inner city schools nationwide. THE UNSPOKEN (1999), Marx's first feature film, features stellar performances from Russian star Sergei Shnirev of the famed Moscow Art Theatre, and Harry Lennix, most known for GET ON THE BUS, BOB ROBERTS, TITUS, ER, and MATRIX. A hobbyist songwriter, in 1991 Marx recorded a number of his songs collectively known as ROLLING STEEL. Two of those 11 songs are used over THE UNSPOKEN tail credits and one is used in BOYS TO MEN?. THE UNSPOKEN and ROLLING STEEL are available through this website.

Having worked for a time as an English and creative writing teacher, Marx began his movie career as a film critic, and has worked both as a film distributor and exhibitor. He has also traveled extensively. He's lived in Germany, China, and Hungary. He's traveled repeatedly through Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa and Himalayan India. With a B.A. in Political Science and an MFA in filmmaking, Marx has coupled his formal education with a natural gift for languages, speaking German and some Mandarin-Chinese. His interest in languages and foreign cultures is reflected in PBS' international human rights program OUT OF THE SILENCE (1991), the widely acclaimed personal essay DREAMS FROM CHINA (1989), and Learning Channel's SAVING THE SPHINX (1997). He consulted on Iranian-Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi's feature TURTLES CAN FLY (2004) and was a teacher of renowned Thai feature filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

He brings a passion for appreciating multiculturalism and an urgent empathy for the sufferings of the disadvantaged to every subject he tackles. As his mission statement indicates (Bearing witness, creating change), his is a voice strong and clear, and profoundly human.

http://www.warriorfilms.org/

【產品資訊】Product Details

色彩編碼格式：NTSC
Format: NTSC

區碼：1區 (美國、加拿大、美國管轄區域、東太平洋島嶼)
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)

內含片數：1片
Number of discs: 1

發行公司：Intention Media Inc.
Studio: Intention Media Inc.

DVD發行日期：2011/12/20
DVD Release Date: December 20, 2011

片長：90分鐘
Run Time: 90 minutes

語言：北印度語/圖博語/英語
Language：Hindi / Tibetan / English

字幕：英文 (本部影片僅有英文字幕，欲購者請特別注意)
Subtitles：English

售價：690元 (本產品因進口因素，本售價已為特惠價格，會員恕不再折扣)
Price：USD 29

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