Footage from The Shadow Circus shoot

During the making of The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet, we conducted numerous interviews with surviving members of the resistance movement in order to have a visual record of their stories. The majority have now passed away. The interviewee list includes:

Tibetans:

  • Lithang Athar
  • Lhamo Tsering
  • Bapa Legshay
  • Bapa Yeshe
  • Nyemo Bhusang
  • Chatring Dawa
  • Chime Phuntsog
  • Dechen (Yama)
  • Gyalo Thondup
  • Jamyang Norbu
  • Karma Phuntsog
  • Kelsang Dorje
  • Khaley Jamba
  • Lobsang Jampa
  • Lobsang Woeser
  • Ngadrug
  • Norbu Dorje
  • Raduk Ngawang
  • Tashi
  • Tendar
  • Tenzin Tsultrim
  • Thinley Paljor
  • Thupten Gyaltsen
  • Lithang Wangyal

Americans:

  • Bruce Walker
  • Roger McCarthy
  • Ken Knaus (at the Reflecting Pool, and at home)
  • Don Cesare (at Fort Carson, Peterson Field, and Camp Hale)
  • John Greaney
  • Frank Holober
  • Sam Halpern
  • James Lilley
  • John Reagan
  • Tom Sailor
  • Anthony Poshepny

Other:

  • George Patterson

The digitisation of this footage was made possible through a grant from Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna.