Pema Tseden

Pema Tseden
Pema Tseden at the La Rochelle International Film Festival () in 2012.
Native name	Template:པད་མ་ཚེ་བརྟན།
Born	December 1969 (age 47) Guide County, Qinghai, China
Nationality	Chinese
Alma mater	Northwest University for Nationalities Beijing Film Academy
Occupation	Director, screenwriter
Years active	1991–present
Organization	China Film Directors' Guild China Film Association Chinese Film Literature Association
Notable work	The Silent Holy Stones Tharlo

Pema Tseden (Tibetan: པད་མ་ཚེ་བརྟན།, Wylie: pad ma tshe brtan), also called Wanma Tsaidan (simplified Chinese: 万玛才旦; traditional Chinese: 萬瑪才旦; pinyin: Wàn mǎ cái dàn; born December 1969), is a Tibetan film director and screenwriter of Chinese citizenship. He is a member of the China Film Directors' Guild, China Film Association and Chinese Film Literature Association.

Pema Tseden was born into a pastoral family, in Guide County, Qinghai, in December 1969, during the Cultural Revolution. He is the only one of three siblings to have finished school. He graduated from Northwest University for Nationalities, where he majored in Tibetan Language and Literature. After graduation, he worked as a primary school teacher and a civil servant. Then he pursued advanced studies at China's most prestigious film school, Beijing Film Academy, where he became the Academy's first-ever Tibetan student.

Pema Tseden's debut work, The Silent Holy Stones, won the Best Directorial Debut at the 25th Golden Rooster Awards, Asian New Talent Award for Best Director at the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival, Special Jury Award at the 8th Changchun Film Festival, and Best First Feature at the 13th Beijing College Student Film Festival.