A teenaged girls who made a film in two weeks after studying for a month

KATHMANDU: SEPT. 12 – Teenaged girls who are not even familiar with the basics of camera and filmmaking have made films in a short time. The 10 teenaged girls who participated in the ‘Filmmaking’ workshop conducted by Kipalaya Productions under Plan International’s ‘Girls Get Equal’ campaign have made a film from a month’s learning.

The film, which he made after learning for a month, was screened in the hall of Nepal Film Development Board on Friday. During the one-month filmmaking workshop, five films with an average duration of 5 minutes were screened. The training, titled ‘Women Make Films’, was also supported by Oscar International College and the Film Development Board.

It has been remarked that portrayal of women in Nepali films is unnatural and status quoist. According to the organizer Kipalaya, the workshop was held to break many stereotypes about women and increase the number of women in film production.

Kipalaya’s project chief Aashma Pokharel said that applications were invited from all over the country for the workshop and 10 people were selected from the applicants. Initially, the workshop was physically planned to be held in two places, Kathmandu and Chitlang, but it was virtually completed in the second wave of the epidemic.

Nav Vijay Shrestha, project coordinator of the workshop, said that they tried to initiate the girl in filmmaking using both theoretical and practical methods. ‘In a month-long training, 18- to 24-year-olds learned the art of asking constructive questions about the fabric of Nepali society. We feel that the screening of these five films has provided a good platform for these women filmmakers to show their abilities and make them confident, ”said Nav Vijay.

Plan Nepal’s campaign expert Srijana Bajracharya said that she was happy that the teenagers were able to make an excellent film in such a short time. “I never thought it would be so good with such a short training, but they have made a great film,” she said.

The one-month workshop was held from July 18 to August 19. The workshop was attended by Aashruti Tripathi, Pradhanya Yonjan, Angela Chaudhary, Pushpa Joshi, Purnima Maharjan, Ambika Bhandari, Asmita Lawati, Srisha Kunwar, Mira Khadka and Jyoti Belbase. In the film made by 10 people divided into 5 groups, they included the lives of 5 different women in the film.

Pushpa Joshi, who made a film on the story of a sex worker, said that the workshop not only taught her the art of making films but also gave her knowledge on how to look at women’s issues through the lens. They were trained by Rajan Kathet, Rajila Shrestha, Babin Dulal and others in the one-month workshop.