Missing in Tibet

Missing in Tibet

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 23, 1999

Runtime

0h 26m

Original Title

Missing in Tibet

Director

Robin Garthwait

Description

Narrated by Goldie Hawn and Peter Coyote, this film is about Nwawang Choephel, a Tibetan-born exile, who, on December 26, 1996, was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Chinese authorities. Choephel was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study ethnomusicology at Middlebury College, in Vermont. His research took him to Tibet to document and preserve traditional music and dance. In the midst of this research the Chinese authorities arrested him.