His films “Jinpa” and “Balloon” won awards at international festivals.
Award-winning Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden, best-known for “Jinpa” and “Balloon” and admired by both Chinese and Tibetans for his work showing the living conditions of Tibetans, died in Lhasa on Monday, several sources told Radio Free Asia. He was 53.
He died of heart failure, a source close to Tseden said. He was staying in the Maldro Gongkar area of Lhasa where he was working on a film, the source said.
Films directed by Tseden received awards at the Busan Asia International Film Festival and Taiwan Film Festival and were translated into Chinese, Japanese and English.
“Under the difficult situation in Tibet, and with very few Tibetan filmmakers in exile, Pema Tseten took the responsibility of making films based on the real situation in Tibet and on the changes taking place,” said Tenzin Sonam, a Tibetan filmmaker based in Dharamsala, India.
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