Footage from The Sun Behind the Clouds shoot
More than 150 hours of footage were filmed and collected during the making of this film. The majority of the footage was shot on DVCPRO HD and XDCAM HD. The archive includes:
In-depth footage from the Dalai Lama’s visits in 2008 to:
- India: Mundgod, Dharamsala and New Delhi
- USA: Seattle, Ann Arbor, Colgate University,
- France: Paris, Lerab Ling, Nantes
- Germany: Berlin
- UK: Nottingham, London, Oxford
Footage from Dharamsala in March and April 2008 during the height of the uprising in Tibet.
Footage of the Return March to Tibet, including in-depth footage from the siege of Seraghat and Banspatan and the breakup of the march at Darchu La.
In-depth interviews with:
- The Dalai Lama
- Samdhong Rinpoche
- Tsering Shakya
- Tendor
- Woeser
- Lodi G Gyari
- Jamyang Norbu
- Shingza Rinpoche
- Telo Rinpoche
- Geshe Wangchen
- Ling Rinpoche
- Lhasang Tsering
- Lhadon Tethong
- Tenzin Tsundue
- Ven. Palden Gyatso
- Sogyal Rinpoche
- Sonam Topgyal
- Lhakpa Tsering
- Chime Youngdung
- B Tsering
- Jampa
- Karma Choephel
- Dolma Gyari
- Thupten Jinpa
- Tsewang Rigzin
- Lukar Jam
- Dumkhang
- Sonam Lhundup
- Tashi Tsering (Bora)
- Jampa Monlam
- Dolkar(RFA)
- Palden Gyal
- Namgyal Yeshi
- Arjia Rinpoche
- Tseten Wangchuk
- Jigdal Tenzin
Nangpa La shooting survivors:
- Jamyang Samten
- Dolma Pelkyi
Ex-political prisoners:
- Sonam Dorjee
- Rigzin Choekyi
- Ngawang Woebar
Selected Chinese interviewees:
- Wang Lixiong
- Hanwen Liao
- Jinhui Chen
- Prof. Yan Sun
- Jing Huang
- Tang Xiaoyang
Other interviewees:
- Rajiv Vora
- Alison Reynolds
- Robert Ford
- Jonathan Mirsky
- Alex Norman
- George Patterson
- Robert Thurman
- Elliot Sperling
- Mathieu Ricard
- George Dreyfus
- Warren W. Smith
- Pico Iyer
- Robbie Barnett