Asian Film Festival 2010: Visualizing Tibet: Summer Pasture (Lynn True and Nelson Walker, 2010, 86 min.)

• Event Date: Friday, November 5, 2010
• Time: 7:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Film

Introduced by filmmaker Lynn True.

Summer Pasture is a feature-length documentary that chronicles one summer with a young nomadic family in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet. The story of a family at a crossroads, the events take place at a critical time as the family’s pastoral traditions confront a rapid modernization that threatens to drastically reshape their existence.