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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. 
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. 
"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. 
