Five Nepali women filmmakers to take part in Sheffield DocFest

By A Staff Reporter Kathmandu, June 22: Five Nepali women filmmakers are going to the United Kingdom this month to attend Sheffield DocFest, UK’s leading documentary film festival.

Filmmaker Aashruti Tripathy, Pinki Sris Rana, Culture and Arts Reporter for The Kathmandu Post, filmmaker and YouTuber  Prashansha KC, documentary filmmaker Prasuna Devi Dongol and producer Smriti Basnet will  participate in the film festival from Nepal. 

The delegation has been organised through the British Council’s Gender Film Programme, which is led by Taskovski Films, UK, in collaboration with Nepal Female Filmmakers and Pame Film and Music Festival. 

The programme is supported by Film Development Board Nepal.

As a professional development opportunity, a call for applications for women producers and directors—working on feature-length projects—was announced earlier this year through which a diverse group of 10 Nepali women filmmakers participated in virtual sessions from February to May.

"The main aim of jointly initiating this specific programme is to provide these young women the opportunity to travel to Sheffield DocFest and learn how to prepare for industry events, meet possible collaborators and present their ideas," said Irena Taskovski, CEO and Founder of Taskovski Films.

Film Development Board Nepal and the British Council have maintained a partnership MoU since 2019 and have been working together in film archival, capacity building projects and on gender film programmes.