Chairman/Producer
Tsering Rhitar Sherpa has been producing films since 1997. His debut film “The Spirit Doesn’t Come Anymore”, a documentary film profiling an old Tibetan shaman, earned him the Best Film Award in FILM SOUTH ASIA – festival of South Asian documentary films, and Best Indigenous Filmmaker of the Year at Parnu Anthropological Film Festival, Estonia. In 2000, he made his first feature film “Mukundo” (Mask of Desire), a co-production of Mila Productions (P) Ltd. and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), which was widely shown in International Film Festivals, and was Nepal’s Official Entry for Academy Awards (OSCAR) in Best Foreign Language Film Section in 2000. He produced award winning film such as “Kalo Pothi: The Black Hen” which won the Best Film at Venice International Film festival, Critics week, 2015 and “Seto Surya: White Sun” won many prestigious film award including Inter film Award at Venice Film Festival, Best Film at Singapore International Film Festival, New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize at Palm Springs International Film festival. Since then Tsering Rhitar produced many high quality films that went on to win awards and shown in various international film festivals.
