{"id":471,"date":"2021-01-19T05:08:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T05:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/?page_id=471"},"modified":"2021-01-26T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T11:44:52","slug":"arun-bhattarai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/archive\/filmmakers\/arun-bhattarai\/","title":{"rendered":"Arun Bhattarai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arun Bhattarai\u2019s <\/strong>1st<\/sup> feature-length documentary The Next Guardian<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>premiered at IDFA<\/strong> – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam<\/strong> at the First Appearance Competition in 2017. Since then it has been screened at more than 40 international festivals (True\/False, Ambulante, San Francisco IDFF, MoMA DocFortnight, Camerimage, Docs Against Gravity, DOK.fest.M\u00fcnchen<\/em> etc.) had theatrical releases and broadcasted around the world. The film was developed in several international workshops and pitching forums (IDFAcademy Summer School, Dare to Dream, TokyoDocs, AIDC<\/em> etc.) and was supported by the IDFA Bertha Fund, KRO-NCRV and the Creative Europe Media Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His most recent television documentary, Kelden<\/em> <\/strong>won The Asia Pitch and was screened in NHK World TV and KBS Korea. Before becoming an independent filmmaker, he worked as a TV director at the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) for more than 5 years. He graduated from the 1st<\/sup>edition of DocNomads Joint Master in documentary directing for which he was awarded a full Erasmus Mundus scholarship in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels in 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently he is working on a short documentary Mountain Man.<\/em><\/strong> The project won <\/strong>the <\/strong>Best Pitch Prize at If\/Then Global Short Pitch 2019 at IDFA<\/strong>2019. He is also developing his second feature- length documentary Gross National Happiness<\/em><\/strong>. <\/em>The project won the Best Pitch South Asia Award at Dhaka Doclab 2019 and the IEFTA – International Emerging Film Talent Association Award<\/strong> that sponsored the director to attend the Producers Workshop and March\u00e9 du Film at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2020. The project also received the Tribeca Film Institute Award<\/strong>at Docedge Kolkata 2020 that sponsored the director to attend the Tribeca Film Festival\u2019s TFI Network market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He established his own production company – Sound Pictures – dedicated to creative documentaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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