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UK Nepal Climate Change Film Competition - 3 minutes shorts

We deliberated for about 16 hours and watched 124 shorts before coming up with these results... The film competition was sponsored by DFID and the British Council. _________________________________________ Out of the 126 entries that were received, the following films have been declared winners by the three member jury which consisted of Dr. Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha (writer and conservationist), Sushma Joshi (writer and filmmaker) and Kesang Tseten (writer and filmmaker). Winning Short Films Director(s) Position Act Locally Think Globally Santoshi Nepal and Ishu Lama Winner Jeopardy Shiva Sharan Koirala 1st Runner Up 3 Cs of Climate Change Binod Kr. Dhami and Padam Raj Paneru 2nd Second Runner Up Get Your Act Together Suresh Limbu Special Mention

Shooting Climate Change

29 AUGUST, 2009 SHOOTING CLIMATE CHANGE SUSHMA JOSHI When Basanta Thapa of the Himal Association called me up and asked me if I’d like to be one of the jury members of the UK Nepal Climate Change Competition, it sounded easy. “We’ve received three films,” he said. “About seven have registered to send more.” We estimated at the most about two dozen films, each three minutes long, that we’d watch in one sitting. When I rushed in at 9:15am at the judging venue, and said: “I hear we now have 70 submissions!”, Basanta Dai said to me: “Its now 124!” The numbers were incredible, if only because a few years ago one could count the number of filmmakers on the fingers of two hands. As we sat down to watch the first film, I got a tingle in my scalp from the excitement. There were 124 filmmakers in Nepal who were not just interested in climate change issues but who had actually gotten it together to submit films? This, indeed, ws good news for Nepal. This explosion of filmmaking had co

Judge at the NIIFF (Nepal Indigenous Film Festival), 2009

I was invited to be a judge at the Nepal Indigenous Film Festival in 2009.  The NIIFF is organized by the Indigenous Film Archives , one of the most democratic and well respected film organizations in Nepal. IFA has organized 7 film festivals and shown a wide-ranging selection of films from all ethnic and indigenous groups of Nepal. _______________________________________________________________________________ NIIFF 2009    NIIFF 2009 was organized with the following objectives;  1.   Promote and help in the development of indigenous films 2.      Provide forum to indigenous filmmakers to show their skills, capacity and learning 3.     Provide learning environment on indigenous issues and showcase them;  4.    Help to promote market of indigenous films and  5.   Support in creation of cultural harmony among different societies. You can view the  archives in this link.