Pema Tseden (Old Dog, The Silent Holy Stones, The Search) was born in 1969 in Amdo, in the Tibetan region of Qinghai Province. He is widely recognized as the leading filmmaker of a newly emerging Tibetan cinema and the first director in China to film his movies entirely in the Tibetan language. Tseden has published more than 50 short stories and novels both in Tibetan and Chinese; his work has won numerous awards including including the Drang-char (sbrang-char) Tibetan Literature Prize and has been translated into languages English, French, and German. In 2002, Pema Tseden began his film career. His feature films, all of which have received great acclaim, are The Grassland (2004), The Silent Holy Stones (2005), The Search (2009) and Old Dog. Tseden is Chairman of the Directors Association of China; he is also a member of the Filmmakers and Literary Societies of China.
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