Marie Louville
Marie Louville, is a French journalist, specialist of Tibet, director of documentary films on Tibet.
In 1987, the Dalai Lama was not yet given the Nobel Peace Prize and the Tibetan cause was therefore yet not so well known, she directed a report on the situation in Tibet that will be broadcast during the French TV news on Antenne2 channel, and will mark the French opinion. In 1991, she directed a documentary film on the Tibetan resistance, Tibet: the army of the shadows that also was broadcast on Antenne2. In 1997, two years after the disappearance of Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, recognized by the Dalai Lama as the 11th Panchen Lama, she directed a film on the worrying disappearance of this 6 years old child about whom, we are without news. In 1999, marking the 10th birthday of the granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to the 14th Dalai Lama, she directed a documentary recalling The Escape of the Dalai Lama. This film is the story of the trip with comments from the Dalai Lama as well as survivors from this time. Marie Louville was able to redo the trip and shot secretly the pictures in Tibet, autumn 98.
In 2003, she went again secretly to Tibet and directed a documentary film, The sidewalks of Lhassa, describing the commerce of prostitution in Lhasa, in central Tibet. In 2006, still secretly, Marie Louville, directed The Prisoner of Lhasa, a documentary film on the situation of Tibetan political prisoners. This film introduces the life of the Tibetan nun Ngawang Sangdrol and details how John Kamm, director of the Dui Hua Foundation, contributed to her release. Pictures of Drapchi Prison and other detention centers close to Lhasa are showed.[1]
In 2007, Marie Louville and her team directed a documentary film on the Qingzang railway the "train of colonization of Tibet", Tanggula expresses, a train on the roof of the world.[2]