While Quentin Tarantino traverses Asia conducting Filmmaker Labs for
Sundance Institute, Hawaii Film Festival director Jeannette Paulson is
invited to Ulaanbaatar Mongolia over the Christmas and New Year’s holiday to advise Mongolian film industry leaders on how their state subsidized film industry can switch to capitalism in one week. After a near death experience during a chaotic stampede inside a freezing cold dark Ulaanbaatar movie theatre, Jeannette realizes that not having a date on New Year’s Eve is probably not the worse problem in the world.

1990s - "Travel: Saved by a Song in Ulaanbaatar" (Jeannette's Story)

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