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Typhoon Gaemi Impacts L.A.’s Inaugural World Culture Film Festival, Keeping Major Filmmaker From Opening Night, But Zoom Comes To Rescue
The inaugural World Culture Film Festival opened in Los Angeles, but the appearance of director Pawo Choyning Dorji was delayed by a typhoon.
Typhoon Gaemi, with top winds speeds equaling a category 3 hurricane, lashed the Philippines and Taiwan before blowing into China Thursday night. It caused widespread travel disruptions all the way west into Bhutan, where filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji had been attempting to get a flight to Los Angeles for the opening night of WCFF, a new event that describes itself as a platform for “entertainment that uplifts.” A Bhutanese lama living in a remote area recognizes the impending changes as momentous and tasks a young monk with obtaining a gun before the next full moon.
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