a shorter version at 12.10 minutes Contactįor inquiries or feedback on this short film, contact Michael Buckley or Petr Sevcik: Music by Victor Chorobik Length: there are two cuts for the film: He has produced and directed a number of short films. Since moving to Canada, he has expanded his involvement with photography, filmmaking, and experimenting with sound.
Producer: Petr Sevcik grew up in Czechoslovakia, where he studied electronics and automation-and was involved in the underground art movement. He is author of the book Meltdown in Tibet (Palgrave-Macmillan, New York). If Himalayan glaciers vanish, what will happen to the rivers of Tibet? What is the fate of people in nations downstream that depend on those rivers? Why is China building so many large dams on the Tibetan plateau? What on earth are China's engineers getting up to?įilmmaker: Michael Buckley has long been involved in research on Tibet, with a number of published books (see In recent years, he has turned his attention to making short documentaries about major environmental problems in Tibet and how they impact Asia-highlighting issues that go unreported or under-reported in Western media. The film raises some disturbing questions about a looming eco-disaster. To make way for these hydropower projects and for mining ventures, Tibetan nomads are being forced off their traditional grassland habitat-and resettled in bleak villages, where they cannot make a decent living. These rivers are at great risk from rapidly receding glaciers-a meltdown accelerated by climate change-and from large-scale damming and diversion, due to massive Chinese engineering projects. The mighty rivers sourced in Tibet are lifelines to the people of India and Southeast Asia.
Using undercover footage and stills, Meltdown in Tibet blows the lid off China's huge and potentially catastrophic dam-building projects in Tibet. A personal take on the politics of water in Tibet