Arun Bhattarai

Arun Bhattarai’s 1st feature-length documentary The Next Guardian premiered in competition at IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2017. Since then it has been screened at (...) more than 40 international festivals, had theatrical releases and broadcasted around the world. The film was developed in several international workshops and was supported by international film funds. His most recent television documentary, Kelden won The Asia Pitch and was screened in NHK World TV, Media Corpe and KBS Korea. Before becoming an independent filmmaker, he worked as a TV director at the Bhutan Broadcasting Service for 6 years. He graduated from the 1st edition of DocNomads Joint Master in documentary film directing. His short documentary in development Mountain Man, about Bhutan’s first glaciologist won the Best Pitch Prize at If/Then Global Short Pitch 2019 at IDFA. He is developing his second feature- length documentary Gross National Happiness which has received support from the Catapult Film Fund and the DMZ docs fund.