2 replies on “Windhorse DVD.”

  1. Did you watch the trailer? It’s not a documentary. It’s a low budget feature film that was shot clandestinely on location.

    San Francisco Chronicle–

    Windhorse is a searing political drama, some of it filmed clandestinely in Lhasa, that rips the veils off Western idealism about Tibet. This amazing movie, starring Tibetan exiles who are not professional actors, was shot with a documentarian’s eye for everyday details. In fact, director Paul Wagner, who won an Oscar for “The Stone Carvers,” has only made documentaries until now.

    “Windhorse” is fictional but steeped in grim reality about Chinese repression and the resolve by many Tibetans to keep their culture intact. The production, filmed on location in Tibet and Nepal, avoids the preachy tone that often comes with anything about Tibet these days. Yet “Windhorse” is anything but shy about its point of view.

  2. I don’t know why I called it a “documentary” — I’m mighty familiar with it, since I know the director/producer, one of the stars and both associate producers. I plead stupid. :)

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