News Desk producer
Pema Dhondup (right) is a News Desk producer for the show
Pema Dhondup is a News Desk producer for The Tibet Connection. He was the first president of the Press Club of Tibet, and organized the first International Convention of Tibetan Journalists.
Pema is a Tibetan, born and raised in India by refugee parents who left their homeland after the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959. He was one of the first Tibetans to enter the field of journalism, creating the first and only Tibetan news video magazine, “Sargyur” (The News). An instant hit within the exiled Tibetan community, His Holiness the Dalai Lama praised the efforts of the Sargyur team in their inaugural issue. Pema went on to initiate and become the first president of the Press Club of Tibet, and organized the first International Convention of Tibetan Journalists. After six years of video production making documentaries, promos, institutional films and TV series, Pema came to Los Angeles and attended USC film school on a Fulbright scholarship. He wrote, produced and directed We’re No Monks, the first Tibetan digital feature film. (BBC News: “Tibet film blasts ‘Shangri-La image’”)This factual story about Tibetan youth in exile sends the message to the younger generation to resist the temptation to take up violence in the struggle for freedom. The BBC said of Pema Dhondup: “He is the angry young face of Tibetan exiles in India, fighting the stereotypical view of Tibetans as peace-loving monks.”
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