ABOVE AND BELOW: THE ART OF TSHERIN SHERPA

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT - SF DocFest | OFFICIAL SELECTION - Tibet International Film Festival Himalayan Culture • Diasporic Identity • Modern Art • Buddhist Art Date of Completion: 2022 | Run Time: 35 minutes​​ | Language: English with English & Spanish subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Sheri Brenner-Hall | Producers: Sheri Brenner-Hall & Marc Smolowitz | Editor: Sheri Brenner-Hall | Directors of Photography: Andrew Black (San Francisco) & Chandramon Dongol (Nepal) | Narrator: Peter Coyote | Musical Artists: Yungchen Llamo & George Brooks | Composer: Victor Spiegel When Artist Tsherin Sherpa came to San Francisco from Kathmandu, Nepal in 1998, he was a religious artist painting sacred Buddhist meditation images. He struggled to find a place for his art in a new land, and wanted to express stories and ideas that went beyond the Buddhist niche. But moving forward meant leaving the art and identity that defined him behind. He had to find