Documentary Filmmaking: A Conversation with Yangzom Brauen

Yangzom Brauen is an award winning Film and TV Director. Her short film "Born in Battle" about child soldiers received the well known CICT-UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award as well as the UNESCO Gandhi Medal. After the screening of the film 2018 in a Los Angeles movie theater she got instantly offered her first TV directing gig for "NCIS LA" and she’s gone on to direct shows like FBI, 9-1-1, the Emmy-winning MATLOCK, DEATH & OTHER DETAILS & AMERICAN HORROR STORIES. Yangzom is active and vocal in the Tibetan Freedom movement and in 2009 she wrote her first book “Across Many Mountains”, which became an instant European Bestseller. Her feature-length documentary MOLA: A TIBETAN TALE OF LOVE AND LOSS premiered at SXSW 2025. MOLA follows Kunsang Wangmo, or “Mola” a Tibetan nun exiled from her homeland in 1959 to escape the Chinese occupation. Now 100 years old, Mola has decided her last wish is to die in Tibet.

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