About
Filmmaker / Artist / Mountaineer
Dhaulagiri Films is a production company operating from London and Kathmandu, founded by filmmaker Asmita Shrish. The company is dedicated to amplifying stories from marginalized communities, with a mission to uncover authentic narratives by actively decolonizing storytelling frameworks. Asmita Shrish, an independent filmmaker and visual artist, has built a reputation for her work in documentaries and fiction films that explore identity and environment. Her projects often emerge from close collaborations with subjects, focusing on intimate connections between characters and their surroundings.
Asmita Shrish is an independent filmmaker based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her filmmaking practice oscillates from documentaries to moving images and dramas, anchoring real issues and narratives to navigate and represent identity within physical and metaphysical space. Her films have always been the results of collaborations with the subjects/casts with particular attraction towards characters that are intimately close to their environment. She is particularly interested in exploring delicate and private spaces within an intricate framework. She has been mentored by auteurs Naomi Kawase, Bela Tarr and Shirin Neshat.
Her films Auntie Ganga, Gyalmu’s House and Chandra have won multiple awards and have been screened in more than 100 film festivals around the world including Locarno, São Paulo, Busan, London, IDFA, Sheffield, Banff, Edinburgh, Fribourg to name a few.
Journey
British Council
Endorsed by British Council
BFI Network / BAFTA crew
2019 / 2020
Sinchi Fund
Beneficiary 2019 / 2020 (Emerging Indigenous filmmaker)
BERLINALE TALENTS
2019
Berwick LUX
Project Bootcamp 2019
IDFA ACADEMY
London 2011
Asian Film Academy alumni
London 2014
Aw- ards
Her films Auntie Ganga, Gyalmu’s House and Chandra have won multiple awards and have been screened in more than 100 film festivals around the world including Locarno, São Paulo, Busan, London, IDFA, Sheffield, Banff, Edinburgh, Fribourg to name a few.