SKY TRAIN TO BECOME SCREENPLAY!

Late-December, 2010 I am very thrilled to announce that I have won a fellowship from the national film arts organization, the Center for Asian American Media, to adapt Sky Train into a screenplay! I will be paired with a professional screenwriter who will mentor me this year. Here’s some of what the judges...

SKY TRAIN
Tibetan Women on the Edge of History

Writer and activist Canyon Sam uncovers the history of Tibet from the perspective of its women in a lyrical memoir that spans more than twenty years.  Traveling on the newly opened, Beijing-to-Lhasa train in 2007 she crossed the Himalayas to find women from her earlier oral history project and stayed with the Tibetan...

Canyon Sam’s SKY TRAIN Book Tour

Canyon Sam was a guest on NPR’s Diane Rehm show Tuesday February 23 with guest host Katty Kay. 88.5 WAMU. You can listen to the hour-long show at http://wamu.org/programs/dr/10/02/23.php#29478 ...