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A PILGRIMAGE INTO TIBET

To acknowledge the 60 year freedom struggle of the Tibetan people and their leader, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, eight intrepid pilgrims take on an epic pilgrimage trek through remote Nepal into occupied Tibet, to walk around Mount Kailash, Asia's most sacred mountain. Confronting altitude, officialdom and their own physical limits, their journey reveals seldom seen experiences of todays' Nepal and Tibet. in summer 2019.

  • Mark Gould
    Director
    TIBET: MURDER IN THE SNOW, MOULIN ROUGE GIRLS, A WINNERS' GUIDE TO THE NOBEL PRIZE, a pig, a chicken and a bag of rice, GUT INSTINCT, IN GOOGLE WE TRUST, RISING STARS (SERIES)
  • Mark Gould
    Writer
    Lots
  • Mark Gould and Freeman Trebilcock
    Producer
    Lots
  • Mark Gould and Freeman Trebilcock
    CAMERA
    Lots
  • Mark Gould
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Freeman Trebilcock
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Ongmu Denzompa
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Murry Cox
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Charles Dodgson
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Carmel Thew
    Key Cast
    "self"
  • Randall Wood
    Editor
    lots
  • Tenzin Choegyal, Ani Choying Drolma, Toshi Tschutori
    Composer
    Lots
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    28 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 2, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia, Nepal
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    4k HD
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • ABC Australia Compass
    Sydney
    Australia
    Australian premiere
Distribution Information
  • mark@bondirocksmedia.tv
    Distributor
    Country: Australia
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Mark Gould

Mark Gould is a producer, writer and director with a lifetime’s experience in Australian theatre, film and television. Mark has run his own production company for the past 25 years, as well as contract stints within the ABC producing and direction for 4 Corners, Foreign Correspondent and Compass.

In the last 2 years he made over 140 short videos for the web in the fight to stem the tide of neo-liberal destruction in Sydney.

His documentaries have been commissioned nationally and internationally by the BBC, ABC, SBS, Nat Geo, Arte, YLE, RBTF, RTE and others.

Mark also has two major clients for whom he does exclusive concert coverage. They are Phil Bathols of Spirit Entertainment and Tim Woods of Box Office Hits

Recent projects for the ABC:-
A PILGRIMAGE INTO TIBET (COMPASS 2020)
PILGRIMAGE TO THE KALACHAKRA (COMPASS 2016)
ABOUT A BOY (FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT 2015)
EASTER IN JERUSALEM (COMPASS) 2014
THE HOLY DIP (COMPASS) 2013
IN GOOGLE WE TRUST (4 CORNERS 2013)
MISS TIBET AND THE LIMBO OF EXILE
(ABC FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT 2012)
GUT INSTINCT (ABC FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT 2011)

TIBET: Murder in the Snow (Nov 2008) commissioned by BBC & SBS with YLE TSR and RTBF and NAT GEO. This film won best film at NYC Home Planet Festival 2010. People’s Choice Award at Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival 2009. Award of Excellence at Accolade Mountain Film Festival. This film screened to over 2 million viewers on the BBC and has played at many other major festivals.

A Winners’ Guide to the Nobel Prize 2006 was commissioned by ABC Science in 2006 and won the Golden Dragon Award for Best Science film at Beijing Film Festival and was nominated for a Eureka Prize.
‘a pig, a chicken and a bag of rice’ ABC 2005

His landmark series Moulin Rouge Girls 2004 still holds the ABC ratings record for an ABCTV half hour series. It was nominated for a Logie and sold worldwide.

Mark has made over 40 successful documentaries with ABC, BBC and SBS Australia

Mark began his career as a theatre director and was inevitably drawn to film making. Theatre highlights include:- ‘Boys’ Own McBeth’, Australia & USA. ‘Looking through a Glass Onion’ Australia & UK Off Broadway Edinburgh Fest. Artistic Director of the Flying Fruit Flies Children’s Circus and Producer both Australian tours by Peter Brook’s Centre for International Theatre Creations for the Adelaide Festival. Incl. The Mahabharata Adelaide and Perth.

Plus directing TV serial drama and 40+ documentaries including
Moulin Rouge Girls - which holds the ratings record for ABC TV and has been sold all around the world. TIBET: Murder in the Snow (Nov 2008) broadcast on BBC 2 (est. 5 million viewers in UK). Beginning with ‘a pig a chicken and a bag of rice’, Mark has made 7 films with the Buddhist communities of the Himalayas in India and Nepal.

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Director Statement

This is a personal film and the 4th in a series about Pilgrimage. It was made to acknowledge the 60 year freedom struggle of the Tibetan people and their leader, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. This is the 6th film made by this director in the Himalayas with or about the Tibetan refugee community.