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He is a retired Army officer and also served as Captain in the Royal Body Guards. He took voluntary retirement in 2013 to pursue bodybuilding competitions. He won Mr Bhutan in 2017. He won Asian Gold Medal is 2015 and 2016. His first movie was Singye in 2018 and also won the best debut actor.- Director
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Onir is an Indian filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor.
Born as Anirban Dhar in Samchi, Bhutan, Onir spent much of his childhood going to the cinema. Earlier, Onir studied comparative literature at Jadavpur University in 1989, he received a scholarship to study film editing at SFB/TTC in Berlin. He later returned to India and worked as an editor, scriptwriter, art director, music album producer and song/music video director.
Onir directed and produced his first Documentary film on painter Bijon Chaudhary, "Falling Hero" in 1992. In 1999 he worked as the film editor, song designer and song director of the film "Daman" directed by Kalpana Lajmi. He is best known for his film "My Brother...Nikhil", based on the life of Dominic D'Souza, starring Sanjay Suri, Juhi Chawla and Purab Kohli. It was one of the first mainstream Hindi films to deal with AIDS and same-sex relationships.
In January 2006, he started shooting his second feature film "Bas Ek Pal" with Juhi Chawla, Urmila Matondkar, Jimmy Shergill, Rehaan Engineer and Sanjay Suri. The film was released on Sep 15, 2006.
In 2007 he started his third film "Sorry Bhai!" under his and Sanjay's home production Anticlock Films. Sorry Bhai! starred Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Sanjay Suri, Chitrangada Singh and Boman Irani.
In 2009, Anticlock Films started the unique citizen-funded film project called "I Am" which was Onir's fourth feature film. The film had four stories that are interlinked by characters and shot across four cities in India. The funds for the films have been through Facebook and Blogs. "I Am" is probably the first and largest crowd-sourced film through social networks in India. Over 400 people across 47 cities across the world have come together to make this film. "I Am" was released to wide critical acclaim on April 29, 2011. He won the Indian National Film Awards for Best Film (Hindi) for the anthology "I Am" in 2011. "I Am" is considered one of the first and largest crowd-funded and crowd-sourced films through social media in India. The film dealt with single motherhood, child sexual abuse, displacement and LGBTQI+ rights.
Onir produced "Chauranga" (Four Colours) which won the Incredible India Award as the best script at the Goa Film Bazaar, International Film Festival of India, won best film India Gold at MAMI and IFFLA. This film is about a class conflict set in rural India and directed by Debutant Director Bikas Mishra. The script was also a part of Berlin Talent Campus 2010.
The feature-length documentary "Raising the Bar", an Indi-Australian documentary featuring the lives of 6 children and young people living with down syndrome premiered at the Melbourne Indian Film Festival in 2016.
"SHAB" (The night) directed by Onir released in 2017. The film premiered at New York Indian Film Festival, screened at Melbourne Indian Film Festival, Sydney Indian Film Festival, Florence River to River Indian Film Festival and Stuttgart India Film Festival.
His 6th feature film as director "Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz" (Rain-soaked words) was released in Feb 2018. The film had its Festival premiere at the London South Asian Film Festival in March 2018. The film is currently streaming on Netflix.
In 2018, he made a short documentary, 'Widows of Vrindavan', about unwanted mothers who try and seek solace in pursuit of divine love. The documentary portrays the lives of widows living at Maitri Ghar (House), their journey to Vrindavan, their childhood, their crushed dreams and what keeps them alive now. Widows of Vrindavan is a film about these widows trying to find dignity and hope as they await death. The documentary premiered at the Indisches Film festival Stuttgart in 2019. It received the Best Documentary (Audience choice award) at the 9th Jagran Film Festival.
In 2018 he received Likho Award (Trailblazer Award) Onir has received the Diversity Award from Film Victoria Australia and La Trobe University at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2019.
Onir received the Engendered Spirit of Independent Cinema Award 2020 at the Engendered Human Rights Film Festival in Delhi. Onir directed the Indo-Italian documentary film on contemporary art, SAMA: Symbols and Gestures in Contemporary Art of Italy and India (2021) which underlines the artistic parallels between India and Italy.
Onir's memoir; "I Am Onir and I Am Gay" which he has co-written with his sister Irene Dhar Malik was published by Penguin Viking in 2022. In August Onir's semi-autobiographical film "Pine Cone" premiered at 'The KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival where he won the 'Rainbow Warrior Award' for his film "Pine Cone". In August, 2023, "Pine Cone" had its Australian premiere at the 'Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne' where it won the 'Rainbow Stories Award'. Consecutively it was also screened at the 'Samabhav Travelling International film Festival' in Bhutan where Onir won the 'Trailblazing Award'.
He is also working on a SonyLiv web series on Pulwama Attack based on Rahul Pandita's book.
Onir is also working on a sequel to his 2011 National Award winning film "I Am", titled "We Are".- Riyaz is an 16 years old Indo-Bhutan residential, the rising star & social media sensation 'Riyaz Aly' is one of the most famous content creator of India. He has nearly 40 million fans following on a social media website. The budding star who is not only famous for posting videos on famous social networking sites is also quite famous for his commendable work in some chart buster music videos.
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Yeshi Lhendup was born on 13 June 1992 in Thimphu, Bhutan. He is an assistant director, known for Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019).- Visual Effects
- Art Director
- Special Effects
Gurung, Pralhad is a multidisciplinary freelancer artist, designer & filmmaker. He was born in small valley called Gopini, Chirang, Bhutan date May 5, 1985. At age 6 years of old, he flee with his family to Bhutanese refugee camp Goldhap, Jhapa Nepal and spent his childhood sharing/instructing fine arts by establishing a foundation/institution called Ifacans Foundation/Ifaca-Bhutan in the year 1994 at 7 refugee camps. Beside he directed, screenplay & art directed dozen stage play & street play. In Spring 2008, he completed his BA study and in Summer 2008, he alone resettled in San Francisco Bay Area, United States and started teaching as a volunteer art teacher at Oakland International High School. In Spring 2010 he moved to Seattle for his BFA (Arts, Design/Film Media) study and he is a senior student at Cornish College of the Arts.
His works specially connection related with poor/needy peoples, refugees, homeless, orphans and influence with Himalayas ancient tales. He aims to grow as an artist to reflect their hard life through the medium of an arts-medium films to restarts their new life.- Harald Kippenes was born on 16 November 1973 in Bhutan.