On November 8 and 9 in Banff, Alberta the movie Tashi and the Monk was shown to over 2,500 people at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. The movie wowed the audiences and the judges as it was awarded the Best Film: Mountain Culture. Presenting the award to Director Johnny Burke is Candice Drouin, from sponsor Helly Hansen, along with Jeff Jenner from Jhamtse Canada. Tashi and the Monk will now be part of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour with screenings across Canada over the next four months and around the world during the next year. We are looking for volunteers to be Jhamtse Gatsal ambassadors during these screenings, so if you’d love to help, please give us a call.

Tashi and the Monk, a short documentary film about life at Jhamtse Gatsal Children’s Community, has been selected to be screened at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

Johnny Burke, one of the two creators of Tashi and the Monk, will be in attendance in Banff, Alberta this weekend for the screenings of the award-winning film along with Jeff Jenner, President of Jhamtse Canada.

Tashi and the Monk recently won the Pare Lorentz award for social and environmental film making excellence at the International Documentary Association (IDA). The IDA also short-listed Tashi and the Monk for the best short documentary at its upcoming awards gala in Los Angeles. The film also won two awards at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival in Colorado early this year and is currently on tour throughout the US.

Visit the Tashi and the Monk website for more information about the film.