Belmaya Nepali

Belmaya is an emerging director and cameraperson. Born in a hill village near Pokhara, Nepal, she had little formal education but was introduced to photography aged 14. She participated in exhibitions in Nepal and London and her work was included in a book, My World, My View. In 2014, aged 21, she started training in documentary filmmaking. Educate Our Daughters is her graduation project and first short film. She has gone on to make a short film, Rowing Against the Flow, on boatwomen in Pokhara for Thomson Reuters Foundation. She is co-director of Sue Carpenter VI's upcoming feature documentary, I Am Belmaya, which follows her inspiring journey into filmmaking.