2012 Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund
LIST Who Will Be a Gurkha (aka. Selection: Who Will Be a Gurkha?)Category | BIFF Supporters Fund |
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Project | Who Will Be a Gurkha (aka. Selection: Who Will Be a Gurkha?) |
Director | Kesang Tseten LAMA |
Country | Nepal |
Director's Profile | Kesang Tseten’s We Corner People won Best Nepali Documentary at KIMFF, 2006 and was selected for New Asian Currents, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. On the Road with the Red God: MACHHENDRANATH won the Grand Prize at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival (2006). In Search of the Riyal, about Nepali migrant workers in the Gulf, was recipient of the Asian Cinema Fund and screened at Busan; Saving Dolma, a Jan Vrijman Fund selection, premiered at IDFA 2010; The desert Eats Us premiered at the Leipzig in the International Competition. Tseten’s screenplay Mukundo, co-produced by NHK/Japan, was Nepal’s entry to the Academy Awards (2001). Tseten studied in India, Amherst College in Mass, USA, and at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in NY. |