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What might be called, Nepal's most talked of film; Pooja Gurung, Actor and filmmaker shares here experiences on how a Nepali production unfolds. 
With the common belief that film as a medium of progressive positive change can only be attained through the widespread understanding of the medium as an art-form and the willingness to create forms within films that analyze and discourse. Documentary Open Skool as an open networking platform of amateur and aspiring filmmakers has been working in Nepal since 2008. 
The interview originally appeared in Cahiers du cinéma, no. 219, April, 1970. Read as one of the last masters of the French Cine Wave talks of his art at his peak; ERIC ROHMER (20 March 1920 – 11 January 2010 ) 
Deconstructing Francis: Apocalypse Now and the End of the '70s By Darren Haber; archived from Images journal.com 
A list of films with release dates we found interesting to remember. 
Posted on Thursday March 11, 2010, 16:42 by Helen O'Hara in Empire States...
"Seriously: compare the Best Actress and Best Actor winners of the last ten years. There are more than twice as many female winners under 40 as male winners; seven times as many male winners over 50. Women are only getting decent roles until they turn 50 (and of the winning roles, 15 were under 40; only 4 between 40-50)." 
Never a darling of critics, Luc Besson, today the press is asking questions not about the quality of his films (received coldly by the industry but with enthusiasm by audiences) but, rather, what happened to the “bad boy” behind Nikita and Leon. Italian journalists are asking the same thing on the occasion of the Italian release of Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard 
Acclaimed for his work in Greater Nepal, Manoj Pandit has been an ace believer in the form of cinema as something propelling change. He has been jailed, batoned, caught by the border security forces in India all of which while he becomes a filmmaker. Here is a letter written to us where he describes the driving force on the basis of which he does what he does. 
The first collaborative production of Harke- Films and Docskool, Being Me directed by Kshitiz Adhiraj explores survival of an individual in Nepal. After a year long travel, here is a directors note on his journey of making this film. 
"Nepal only realized film as a commercial asset, completely forgetting the fact that film before having a market is born out of some ones vision, and that vision has more to do with his/her expression which is based on a personal statement leading towards its nature called art"
Since I didn’t know the material would make three separate films, the first was In Search of the Riyal. Veteran documentary filmmaker from Nepal; Kesang Tseten talks of of his personal journey to In Search of the Riyal. 
Chaukathi 'Threshold' is the first film by a Nepali director to be screened in the 'Short Film Corner' of the 'Non-competitive category' at the 'Cannes Film Festival. Selected in the 2009 event, Chaukathi has been an important segment in this years Nepali cinema. Here is Deepak talking of his journey to the film. 
A collection of various posters made by polish artists. These unconventional posters could very well be one of the most interactive ways of seeing into films. 
