Indie filmmakers often describe the hardships involved in getting a movie project off the ground, but rarely does the cost of doing business include hard time in a Chinese prison. That was the price ...

In 1995, Ngawang Choephel returned to his native Tibet to document the country’s fast-disappearing folk-singing tradition. Instead, he was accused of being a spy and sentenced to 18 years in prison by ...

“Tibet in Song” is a documentary film showing at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, at the Nevada Theatre in Nevada City as a fundraiser for the Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra’s (CATS) cultural ...

Musicologist Ngawang Choepel, a Tibetan exile in Dharamsala, India, returned to his homeland in 1995 to archive vanishing native folk songs but fell afoul of the occupying Chinese government; it ...