Belmaya Nepali has just won her first international film award! An Air Canada Award, at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, for Educate Our Daughters - which means her film will be shown on international Air Canada flights! Amazing global reach for her message to the world about the importance of education for girls in Nepal. Huge congratulations to …
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
Belmaya's film Educate Our Daughters has been officially selected for the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival in November! She has been invited to Canada to present her film, which is up for the Air Canada Award. This is a huge deal for Belmaya. She has never been out of Nepal before. She didn't even have a passport. But …
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More laurels for Belmaya
Belmaya's film Educate Our Daughters continues to make waves globally. It has been selected for the prestigious online archive at Women's Voices Now, a curated selection of films that focus on women's rights issues and inspire social change. Belmaya's first film has also just had its USA premiere at Chicago South Asian Film Festival. Plus …
Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival
Belmaya's two films have won a third set of laurels! They'll be showing at the NHRIFF this week, in company with some of the best international human rights documentaries on recent release. From the programme:
WOW Kathmandu!
Belmaya has arrived in Kathmandu to prepare for the WOW Festival this Saturday 17 Feb. She'll be an inspirational speaker at this brilliant celebration of Women of the World, organised by the British Council Nepal and Jude Kelly (who has left WOW's original home, the Southbank Centre in London, to take WOW to the world). It's …
Belmaya in Republica newspaper, Nepal
Belmaya's story has sparked the imagination of both the filmmaking and media community in Nepal. Here is the latest article about her, in Republica, the national English-language daily newspaper.
Belmaya in the Nepal media
Belmaya is in Kantipur, Nepal's leading national newspaper. I can't read Nepali, and Google Translate makes the wildest of stabs at it. (Belmaya's film Educate Our Daughters comes out as The Aggressive Daughters!) But judging by the comments on journalist Deepak Pariyar's Facebook page, Belmaya's story comes over as 'heart-touching' and inspiring.
Screening success at KIMFF
Belmaya's films were screened to a highly appreciative international audience - many of them experienced filmmakers - at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival. Ramyata Limbu, KIMFF Director, thanked Belmaya for submitting her films to KIMFF. 'Belmaya is a growing filmmaker and a young talent, and at KIMFF we believe that we need to hear more …
Belmaya in the Nepali national press
Two days before her films are due to premiere at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF), Belmaya features in the Nepali Times. She has been getting into the spirit of KIMFF, standing up and asking questions during the Q&A sessions with directors. Tomorrow she will attend a documentary masterclass with The Islands and the …
Ten years ago
An early selfie of Sue and Belmaya, when she was 14 years old.
