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‘Chyanti’ by Nepalese filmmaker Veemsen LamaFormer Gurkha soldier and award-winning director’s next short film to be released this summer

After the success of his graduation short film, MAYA, which was nom-inated and awarded at numerous festivals around the world (including Raindance; BKSTS, where it won “Student Best Film of the year 2015”; London Short Film Festival; Berlinale; Screentest Student Film Festival, where it was nominated for “Best Drama”; London Independent Film Festival, where it won “Best International Short Film”; One World Media Awards, where the film’s been long-listed; Val-letta Film Festival, where MAYA is up for the “Triton Award”; Milan Film Festival, where it’s been nominated for ‘Best Short Film’; and most recently L.A. Cinefest), Veemsen Lama has recently been nominated for ‘Best Director’ at the 2016 Ouchy Film Awards, and he and his crew have just come back from a remote village in the Mustang region (Nepal), where they shot the film director’s upcom-ing short, Chyanti.

Chyanti, written by Sampada Malla and produced by Tom Cullingham is the latest project of the Nepalese film director. Born and raised in Nepal, Veemsen Lama is no ordinary umpteenth London-based filmmaker. From a very young age, he developed a passion for storytelling, and so at the dawn of his adult life, he promised himself to do all it would take to make his dreams come true. That notably meant enrolling in the British Armed Forces, which he served for several years. Once he had taken and passed all of the rough tests to become a Gurkha, Veemsen finally set foot in England. Determined to tell the world the various stories he had and would encounter, he first started learning about filmmaking through books and YouTube tutorials while still in the army. A year after a redundancy process - which he was a part of - Veemsen started studying Digital Film Production at Ravensbourne (London) in September 2013.

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> A fresh graduate since mid-2015, Veemsen is now at the head of his own independent film production company, Javiya Films.

His latest project, Chyanti, tells the story of Ram, a guerrilla fighter, a father and a husband who – in the midst of the Maoist revolution – re-turns home to celebrate the festival of Dashain, only to realise that if he is to feed his family and send his daughter to school, he must sell Chyanti, the family goat, so beloved by his daughter, Sani.

“Our new film Chyanti has an authentic Nepalese mountainous village story, which you have never seen and experienced before. For the very first time we are trying to play with symbols, authenticity, metaphors, layers, true events, emo-tions, desperateness, intensity, false hope, point of view from different characters and many more elements in this film will make it unique, I can’t express how excited I am”, says the 35-year-old film director.

Although Chyanti’s currently in post-production, the film crew is still looking for backers to support the project. Indeed, due to unfore-seen challenges on site, including bad weather, terrible reception, and crew members getting sick, as well as in order for the team to give Chyanti its best chance to find its audience at some of the most acknowledged national and international festivals, the film-makers launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise a minimum of £6,000 to carry on their journey (https://www.indiegogo.com/pro-jects/chyanti--2#/).

PRESS INFORMATIONFilm release

Estimated date is June/July 2016 ‘Chyanti’ on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/theshortfilm-chyanti

Indiegogo crowd funding campaignhttps://www.indiegogo.com/projects/

chyanti--2#/Javiya Films

http://www.javiyafilms.com/ Veemsen Lama

http://www.veemsenlama.com/

Photo 1 - Latest official poster for Chyanti

Photo 2 - Sneak peak shot of a scene

Photo 3 - Sneak peak shot of a scene

Photo 4 - Title poster for Chyanti

© All visuals by Javiya Films

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