AIMS & OBJECTIVES:
To create international awareness on the struggle of Tibetan youths living in India.
To create a forum for Tibetan youth in exploring and promoting the art of filmmaking and acting skills and capabilities.
To provide job opportunities to the educated unemployed youth.
To improve and encourage the quality of filmmaking profession in Tibetan community
Derab films
Derab, is in short of Deki Rabten, our family name. Our family is situated in a remote area near Ganga village in U-tsang, central Tibet. Topgyal Tsering and Ngawang Samdup are two brothers, who fled Tibet in the year 1985 to get better education opportunities under the grace of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. The company Derab films was founded in 2000.
Topgyal Tsering completed his studies at Tibetan Children's Village school in Dharamshala and B. Com from Changdhigarh college. He was asked to be a teacher in Ladakh by Ngari Rinpoche in 1993. He served for 8 years at Mulbech school. He later taught at Lamdon school (also in Ladakh and served for 5 years. He is the founder of Tibet Welfare Organisation in Ladakh with the backing from Tibet Initiative Kempten, Germany. Seeking sponsorship to various people in Ladhak. The organisation undertakes projects like winter school to provide tuitions, home for old peoples and individual sponsorships for the poor and needy. Topgyal is the executive member of the Organisation.
Ngawang Samdup is 31 years old. He fled Tibet in 1986 when he was 8 years old leaving behind his family members. He endured much hardship during his flight to India. He was enrolled in Tibetan Homes School Mussoorie from where he completed his schooling. After schooling he went to Nepal to do a two-year course in Computing and Accountancy. On completion of this course, he served in the Central Executive office of the Tibetan Youth Congress as an accountant and computer manager. He served the post for 6 years. He also handled most of the photo and video shoot of all the major activities undertaken by TYC. After resigning from TYC, he joined KUNPHEN (an NGO working for Substance Dependence and HIV) for one year. His keen interest lies in filmmaking and as a result he has completed his first feature film this year. His second film is already being planned
FILMS
PILOT PROJECT: The first film was based on Ngawang and his family's true life story. The film: THE GRACE is about a young Tibetan boy struggling to fulfill his dream of getting quality education and be a good and useful citizen of Tibet. It's a heartrending story where the boy lived his twenty precious years away from home in India, devoid of complete family love and care. His father passed away during this long isolation period. The only thing he could do was pray for his soul.
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