Get to Know the Binisaya Asian Shorts Directors

Binisaya Film Fest 2014 will be held this September 19 and 20, 2014. One of the features of the event is the Asian shorts which will be shown at September 20, 2014 3:00pm at the USC-CAFA Theater.

These are some of the Asian shorts directors.

Tami, XU Qian-Chun was  born in Taipei, and has been working with professional crew since freshman year in film school and settled on the profession as producer. After one-year-exchange program in Paris, she returned to Taiwan and proceeded with her study in post-graduate. Meanwhile, she is devoted to international co-productions, works as producer with independent filmmakers, from Taiwan, China, HK, France and India.

MIN BAHADUR BHAM is an emerging and award-winning young filmmaker, having his short film invited to Venice Film Festival and awarded in Toronto. He graduated in Nepali Literature and Filmmaking. Currently he is doing his Post Graduate Degree in Buddhist Philosophy and Political Science. His film, THE FLUTE (2012), created a history in the whole country, as it was the first time ever a Nepali film was selected for Venice International Film Festival.

Ismail Basbeth was born in Wonosobo, a mountain city in north of Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 1985. He studied Indonesian traditional music in Indonesia School of Art Bandung for a year and move to Yogyakarta in 2004 to learn Communication Science in Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta. Basbeth produced and directed several short films, which screened in the festival film circuits around the world, such as SHELTER  (2011), THE THIEVES  (2012), and 400WORDS  (2013). His work was selected in International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Busan International Film Festival, Vladivostok International Film Festival and many others.

Niranjan Kumar Kujur, was born on 17th September 1986, in Lohardaga, Jharkand. He comes from a tribal community, Oraon that is largely populated in Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh-Orissa belt of India. After graduating in Journalism and Mass Communication from Manipal University, Manipal, he worked with a documentary filmmaker, Shriprakash (known for films like Buddha weeps in Jadugoda, Buru Gada etc.) in Jharkhand. He witnessed many hardcore mass movements while shooting documentaries,that changed his life. He is currently a third year student of Direction and Screenplay Writing in Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata.