Tashi and the Monk
A man creates a remarkable children's community, and struggles with the dark forces unleashed in the process.
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Andrew Hinton and Johnny Burke spent many years as friends and filmmaking colleagues before collaborating as co-directors on Tashi and the Monk last year. The film has won a number of prizes, including the Pare Lorentz and Best Short awards at the International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards in Los Angeles in December 2014.
Andrew's background is as a producer but when his self-shot short Amar won the Vimeo Documentary Award in 2012 he moved towards making verite-style films of his own. Johnny has edited a number of feature documentaries, notably Sean McAllister's Reluctant Revolutionary (BBC Storyville) and his latest Syria, A Love Story (BFI/BBC).
They say it takes a village to raise a child, and that's nowhere more clear than at Jhamtse Gatsal. But it also takes a village to make a film (and share it with audiences). We've been deeply moved by the support this film has had, often before it has even been shown. It has screened to festival audiences across North America, Canada and Europe, and is now beginning the next phase of its journey with a US broadcast on HBO in Summer 2015.