| I AM BELMAYA (82 min) Nepal/UK |
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Director: Sue Carpenter
Co-Director: Belmaya Nepali
Producers: Sue Carpenter,
Christopher Hird, Bettina Kadoorie
Description:
A tale of rebellion, courage and
hope in patriarchal Nepal. Silenced and subjugated all her life,
uneducated Belmaya takes up the movie camera to tell her story.
Spanning 14 years, Sue
Carpenter and Belmaya
Nepali‘s
feature-length documentary follows Belmaya’s transformational
journey as she stands up to her husband and society, and reclaims her
voice through filmmaking.
Biography:
Sue Carpenter has been
involved in Nepal and women's rights for 20 years. A journalist and
photographer, she moved into filmmaking in 2013. Her first short doc, There's Something About Molly,
won Best Short Documentary at the Good Dog Film Festival. She has
gone on to make several short films including The
Wonderful Walk about the Guinness World
Record-beating creation of a 40m community mural. Sue co-founded Asha
Nepal, supporting trafficked women in Nepal. In 2006-2007 she lived
in Pokhara, running a photo project, where she met Belmaya. Sue is a
Trustee of GlobalGirl Media UK, empowering young women through
digital media training.
Belmaya Nepali Born to a
low-caste family, Belmaya, 27, has had very little formal education.
Orphaned at the age of 9, she moved to a home in Pokhara and was
introduced to photography aged 14. She participated in exhibitions in
Nepal and London and her work was included in a book, My
World, My View. In 2014, aged 21, she started
to learn documentary filmmaking. Educate Our
Daughters, her graduation project and first
short film, has been selected for 7 international film festivals,
from Chicago and Toronto to the UK, and won 3 awards. She was
commissioned to make her second film, Rowing
Against the Flow, on boatwomen in Pokhara, by
Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Contact Information:
w: http://belmaya.com
e: sue@tideturner.co.uk
