A Journey into the Herder's Paradise
This is a video diary by Dawa Tsangpo Bhutia and Thanngminlal Misao of the Green Hub Fellowship program 2017-2018 on their travel to Sikkim and meeting the Yak herders during their internship. The video is a personal narrative of their journey, their learning and what they experienced from within. The film shows how the life of the herders is so different from the others in Sikkim. The film also focuses on the life of herders and the environment in which they exist.
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Tsangpo Dawa BhutiaDirector
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Thangminlal MisaoDirector
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Green HubProducer
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Project Type:Documentary, Short, Student
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Genres:Community, Nature, Conservation
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Runtime:13 minutes 6 seconds
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Completion Date:May 4, 2018
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Country of Origin:India
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Country of Filming:India
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:Yes
Dawa Tsangpo Bhutia is a conservation and wildlife filmmaker from Northeast India. Dawa has worked as a tour guide for nature treks in Sikkim. He was also associated with WWF (Zero Waste project) and Himal Raksha before he joined the Green Hub Fellowship program in 2017. During his fellowship, Dawa made many film including “A Journey into the Herders Paradise” along with Thangminlal Misao of Manipur on the yak herders of Sikkim. Post the fellowship he worked with Gurmeet Sapal at Hind Kisan as a cameraperson and Editor. He had also done freelance projects with the Govt. of Sikkim and RNBD. Currently, Dawa is engaged with UNESCO in a 360° VR project wherein the objective is to cover stories based on Act of Kindness.
Thangminlal Misao or “Lalboy” as he is popularly known is a 3rd batch fellow of the Green Hub Fellowship Program. Before joining the fellowship he was in his high school and simultaneously helping his parents in Jhoom and paddy cultivation. He joined the fellowship in the year 2017 and had made the film “A Journey into the Herder’s Paradise”. Lalboy is currently working with Inside Northeast, an organisation working towards the helping the young people from Manipur who take up arms at a very young age and join insurgent groups. Their project Gun to Pen is helping these youth understand the value of education and is trying to help them create an alternative solution.
“Since I myself belong to a herder family, I had a strong interest of documenting my community. So, I came up with an idea of Herders paradise. I actually wanted to document the life of Herders throughout the year and wanted to show the world the emotions I have held since my childhood. It is a completely different life than the rest of the world. But since I had limited time I could not document the way I wanted. I still want to make the film the way I have always thought of making it. Hopefully, someday in the future I will be able to do that.” – Tsangpo Dawa Bhutia
“This was my first ever visit to Sikkim. I had never experienced snowfall before this, and it was an amazing experience for me. We had seen waterfalls on our way. And the biodiversity of the area is so different from my home state Manipur or Assam. I am really thankful that I could be a part of this film.” – Thangminlal Misao