The Song Collector - Documentary film

Through the intimate interactions of three generations of the Namgyal family, The Song Collector explores the uneasy relationship between culture and development and ultimately offers a new vision, inspired by the Buddhist concept of the ‘middle path’, that seeks to find a lasting coexistence between tradition and modernization. A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY ERIK KOTO EDITED BY GRETCHEN BURGER FEATURING MUSIC BY MORUP NAMGYAL WITH TSERING CHOROL AND STANZIN "NONO" SAMCHOK FESTIVAL SCREENINGS MountainFilm Telluride (world premiere) Winner - Indomitable Spirit Award, MountainFilm Telluride BANFF Mountain Film Festival Seattle South Asian Film Festival Buddhist Film Festival Europe Brescia Mountain Culture Festival Kathmandu International Film Festival Winner - Awareness Film Festival merit award Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival Library Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival Ethnografilm Festival Paris Rainier Arts Center screening series NalandaWest spiritual center screening Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival PBS broadcast - Reel NW Northwest Folklife Festival