Visioning Tibet chronicles the passion of ophthalmologist Marc Lieberman, founder of the Tibet Vision Project.  His mission: to end preventable blindness in Tibet — which has the highest rate of untreated cataract blindness in the world — by 2020.  Bringing light where there was once darkness, Lieberman’s work has been recognized by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, which named him its 2003 Humanitarian of the Year.

The film tells the stories of two of Tibetans — Karma and Lhasang — who have one last chance at restored sight.  Karma, 52, is from a small northern village.  A farmer, he works the land that his family has worked for generations.  Karma has only left home to barter in a neighboring village and to make religious pilgrimages.  For two years, he has been gradually losing his eyesight, preventing him from

working in the fields.  Lhasang, 56, is patriarch of a nomadic family.  Like his ancestors before him, he herds yak and goats on the plains of northern and central Tibet.  Lhasang’s blindness has made him unable to provide for his family, darkening both his mood and outlook on life. 

The film follows the two men as they make the arduous journey to a remote clinic in the hopes of having their sight restored by the Tibetan doctors, who have received technology and skill training through the been trained in modern cataract surgery by Dr. Lieberman and his Tibetan Vision Project.  Filmed over a nearly- three-year period two years by an award-wining crew, Visioning Tibet illustrates how one person can make a difference.bring his relative wealth, expertise and compassion to bear on the lives of people in one of the most remote parts of the world.