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Friday Sept 11th is Film Night in Half Moon Bay
The Coastside Film Society to screen a documentary about a village in Nepal that built a badly needed bridge.
Feature: We Corner People - A documentary about building a bridge in Nepal
when: Friday, Sept 11 @ 7:30
where: Coastside Sr. Housing/Sr. Coastsiders
925 Main Street, Half Moon Bay, CA
Donation $5.00 adults -- $3:00 for kids -- Donations for Nepalese earthquake victims will also be collected
Near Nepal’s border with China sits a town that is breathtakingly beautiful, but oh so isolated. The inhabitants call themselves the “Corner People”, living as they do with their backs up against a mountain wall without benefit of electricity, roads, or a single store. The nearest town with a store, customers to sell their bamboo weavings to, or a school for older children is a 4-hour, round-trip hike away.
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The path out of town crosses a river that becomes a raging torrent during monsoon season. Everyone in town mourns the loss of at least one person who slipped and drowned crossing over this angry river. Now the government has sent the materials to build a bridge. The work must be done by hand, by locals working together. But this town, like any town, is full of individuals who don’t always see eye to eye. What makes this movie so compelling is that it takes the time to explore the many perspectives of the people who have to set their differences aside to get the job done.
“This straightforward tale turns into a metaphor for present-day Nepal itself.(Director) Kesang Tseten has distilled the country’s realities into the life of one village, bringing everything into the microcosm: underdevelopment, Maoism, Buddhist shamanism, Christian evangelism, migrant labor, marriage, life and death. Like all great stories, it is told simply in the words and actions of the protagonists themselves.” Kunda Dixit, Nepali Times
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The film will be introduced and questions taken by Karma and Wendy Lama of KarmaQuest Ecotourism and Adventure Travel. KarmaQuest is a Half Moon Bay company that organizes tours to Nepal and beyond the Himalaya that seek to benefit local communities and support conservation. Donations for victims of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake will be accepted at the screening. Donations paid by check can be most easily deducted as charitable contributions.
More info and directions at: www.HMBFilm.org
