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‘Chyanti’ by Nepalese filmmaker Veemsen Lama
Former 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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2. > 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 INFORMATION
Film release
Estimated date is June/July 2016
‘Chyanti’ on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/theshortfilm-
chyanti
Indiegogo crowd funding campaign
https://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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