Killing Time is a prize winning film about the light of Bhutanese refugees made by Annika Gustafson. Here are some clips: Killing Time tells the unknown story about the Bhutanese refugees. In the beginning of the 1990s, a sixth of the Bhutanese population fled their country due to cultural repression. Eighteen years later, Bhutan is [...]
The documentary I have been working on is finished and online. Watch it on my site, here. It tells the story of a young family who, after living most of their lives in Goldap camp in Jhapa, Nepal, have restarted their lives in America. The Ghimirey’s were sent to Austin, TX, as determined by various [...]
I stumbled upon a blog post by Rajneesh Bhandari on his Blog of a Televsion Journalist called Somali refugees desperately want to return home and was completely caught off guard. I had never heard of refugees from Africa in Nepal. Bhandari writes about Sahid Hussain, a Somali refugee living in Nepal. “He departed for Naples, [...]
This is another experimental sequence from the doc I am working on about the resettlement of Nepali refugees from Bhutan in Austin, TX. The Ghimirey’s have been here since November 2008 and are discovering many things about America. In this clip, they talk about their expectations of this country and how it compares now that [...]
The first group of Bhutanese refugees arrived in Austin, TX in November 2008- father, mother, and 16 month old baby. They are awaiting the arrival of the rest of their family, which would make them a clan of 10. Weeks later a single girl came, age 19. When applying for resettlement abroad, families make a [...]
While working on the several photo stories about Karen human rights abuses in Burma and the refugee situation, I lived and taught at a school for Karen kids in Thailand. It was the most special part of the whole experience. The children were cheerful, lonely, sad, resilient, curious, funny, respectful, self sufficient, caring, smart, and [...]