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Biography
Pema Tseden (Tibetan: པད་མ་ཚེ་བརྟན།, Wylie: pad ma tshe brtan), also called Wanma Tsaidan (simplified Chinese: 万玛才旦; traditional Chinese: 萬瑪才旦; pinyin: Wàn mǎ cái dàn; born December 1969), is a Tibetan film director and screenwriter of Chinese citizenship. He is a member of the China Film Directors' Guild, China Film Association and Chinese Film Literature Association.
Biography
Early life and education
Pema Tseden was born into a pastoral family, in Guide County, Qinghai, in December 1969, during the Cultural Revolution. He is the only one of three siblings to have finished school. He graduated from Northwest University for Nationalities, where he majored in Tibetan Language and Literature. After graduation, he worked as a primary school teacher and a civil servant. Then he pursued advanced studies at China's most prestigious film school, Beijing Film Academy, where he became the Academy's first-ever Tibetan student.
Career
Pema Tseden's debut work, The Silent Holy Stones, won the Best Directorial Debut at the 25th Golden Rooster Awards, Asian New Talent Award for Best Director at the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival, Special Jury Award at the 8th Changchun Film Festival, and Best First Feature at the 13th Beijing College Student Film Festival.
In 2009, Soul Searching won the Special Jury Award at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival and was nominated for Golden Goblet Award.
Tharlo, a film adaptation based on the novel of the same name by himself, won the Best Adapted Screenplay at the 52nd Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, it also prizes in the 23rd Beijing College Student Film Festival, and the film was nominated for Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.
Two colleagues reported that Pema Tseden had been detained at Qinghai airport by police in late June 2016 and was hospitalised after having been subjected to all-night interrogation.
Awards
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Notes |
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2005 | 25th Golden Rooster Awards | Best Directorial Debut | The Silent Holy Stones | Won | |
10th Busan International Film Festival | New Currents Award | Nominated | |||
2006 | 9th Shanghai International Film Festival | Asian New Talent Award for Best Director | Won | ||
8th Changchun Film Festival | Best Director | Nominated | |||
Special Jury Award | Won | ||||
13th Beijing College Student Film Festival | Best First Feature | Won | |||
2007 | 7th Chinese Film Media Award | Best New Director | Nominated | ||
2009 | 12th Shanghai International Film Festival | Golden Goblet | Soul Searching | Nominated | |
Special Jury Award | Won | ||||
7th Bangkok International Film Festival | Grand Jury Prize | Won | |||
62nd Locarno International Film Festival | Best Film | Nominated | |||
25th Warsaw International Film Festival | Nominated | ||||
3rd Seoul Digital Film Festival | Nominated | ||||
53rd London International Film Festival | Nominated | ||||
Nantes Three Continents Film Festival | Nominated | ||||
16th Beijing University Film Festival | Nominated | ||||
2011 | 12th Tokyo Future International Film Festival | Best Picture | Old Dog | Won | |
2012 | Brooklyn Film Festival | Best Native Feature | Won | ||
2014 | 17th Shanghai International Film Festival | Golden Goblet | The Sacred Arrow | Nominated | |
2015 | Chinese Film Directors Association | Screenwriter of the Year | Nominated | ||
72nd Venice International Film Festival | Golden Lion | Tharlo | Nominated | ||
52nd Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards | Best Director | Nominated | |||
Best Adapted Screenplay | Won | ||||
Best Feature Film | Nominated | ||||
2016 | 23rd Beijing College Student Film Festival | Artistic Exploration Award | Won | ||
Best Picture | Nominated | ||||
Best Director | Nominated | ||||
22nd Visul Asia International Film Festival | Golden Tricycle Award | Won | |||
Paris Oriental Language Award | Won | ||||
16th Tokyo Filmex | Best Film | Won | |||
Student Jury Award | Won | ||||
12th China Independent Film Exhibition | Best Film of the Year | Won | |||
17th Chinese Film Media Awards | Best Film | Nominated | |||
Best Director | Nominated | ||||
Best Screenplay | Nominated | ||||
2017 | 31st Golden Rooster Awards | Best Low-budget Feature | Won | ||
2018 | 75th Venice International Film Festival | Best Screenplay | Jinpa | Won | |
55th Golden Horse Awards | Best Director | Nominated | |||
Best | Nominated | ||||
3rd Lizhi International Film Festival | Best Film | Won | |||
2019 | 76th Venice International Film Festival | Balloon | Nominated | ||
2019 Toronto International Film Festival | Contemporary World Cinema | Nominated | |||
24th Busan International Film Festival | A Window on Asian Cinema | Nominated | |||
20th Tokyo Filmex | Won | ||||
Asia-Pacific Film Festival | Best Film | Nominated | |||
5th Chicago International Film Festival | Best Screenplay | Won | |||
2nd Hainan Island International Film Festival | Best Film | Won |