Joy Dietrich

A former staff editor at The New York Times, Joy Dietrich is a self-taught filmmaker who was born in Korea, grew up in America’s heartland, and matured under the European social democratic system. Her films explore themes of adoption, identity, and cultural displacement. She currently lives between New York and Montana where she teaches film at Montana State University.

Rituals of Resistance

“Rituals of Resistance” looks at the evolving generational responses by pacifist Tibetans under 65 years of Chinese occupation. Through first-hand oral accounts by three Tibetan exiles living in disparate parts of the world, the film traces the three paths of resistance from the active and the brutal, to the realm of the symbolic and sacrificial. The film creatively explores the