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Tsering Rhitar Sherpa

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DOB : 1968
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Tsering Rhitar Sherpa, a filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer, was born in 1968 in Nepal. His mother is of Tibetan origin, and his father is of Nepalese Sherpa origin. His sister is Tsering Yangzom Sherpa, and his brother is Sonam Gyurmey Sherpa. He is married to Tenzing Wangmo and has a son, born in 1995, and a daughter named Uma Sherpa, born in 2002. He studied BA in Humanities at Delhi University from 1987 to 1990 and MA in Mass Communication at Jamia Millia Islamia University from 1991 to 1993.

He has been the Owner, Producer, and Director of Mila Productions, a film production service company in Nepal, India, and Bhutan, since February 1997, where he has worked with BBC, NHK, German TV ARD, Swiss TV, Korean TV, UNDP, UNESCO, The World Bank, WWF, ILO, CECI, The British Council, Mill Valley Film Group, and Ragdoll Limited. His first film work was Mukundo: Mask of Desire in 2000. The OSCAR committee selected this film to represent Nepal in the Best Foreign Film category. His second film was Karma, made in 2005-06, shown at the San Fransisco, Fukuoka, Tokyo, Vancouver, Goteberg, and Fribourg International Film Festivals.

He has made many documentary films, such as Tears of Torture in 1994 and The Spirit Doesn't Come Anymore in 1997. The Spirit Doesn't Come Anymore won the Best Film Award at the 1997 Festival of South Asian Documentary Films in Kathmandu, Nepal and the Best Indigenous Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 1998 Parnu Anthropological Film Festival in Estonia. This film also screened at the Leipzig Dokfestival in Germany, the Cinema du Reel in France, the Hong Kong International Film Festival in Hong Kong, the Telluride Mountain Film Festival in the USA, the Fukuoka International Film Festival and the Yamagata International Film Festival in Japan.

His other works include Uma (2013), Beyul: The Sacred Hidden Valleys, and Singha Durbar Singha Durbar is a Political drama on Nepal Televi >> Read More... (2015). He also produced Kalo Pothi: The Black Hen, which was the first Nepali film that premiered at the 2015 Venice International Film Festival, the official entry for Academy Awards (OSCAR) in Best Foreign Language Film Section for 2016, and also the winner of the Best Film Award at the Critics Week and the film Seto Surya: White Sun, which premiered at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival and won the Interfilm Award and Best Asian Feature Film Award at the 2016 Singapore Internationational Film Festival.