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Two young documentary filmmakers, a Scott named Alison Pinkney and an Indian, Shruthi Rao speak about their experience filming the Tibetan Olympics, the exiled Tibetans answer to Beijing 2008. They followed some of the participants, young boys and girls from Tibet, who put everything on the line for this once in a lifetime event. What they found is an Olympian story of the human spirit. "For those ten days in their lives, they had a family, they had a house, had dinner with the family, went out and did things that millions of children around the world do. Everything they had lost, they got it all back for those ten days."
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