Taking the Camera and Power into Her Hands
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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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 …
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:
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'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 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.
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 …
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 …
An early selfie of Sue and Belmaya, when she was 14 years old.
Yet more good news! I'm excited and honoured to be a first-round grantee of The Green Room's Filmmaker Fund - one of just four winners out of more than 400 submissions. Much gratitude to Green Room founders Kosta Nikas and Peter Lord and the illustrious jurors - including HBO Vice President Stephen Beres - for recognising the …
