Deepak Rauniyar

Aadi Films

BIOGRAPHIE

Deepak Rauniyar is a director, screenwriter, and producer. A former critic, he became the first Nepali director to compete at a major international film festival when his debut Highway premiered at the 2012 Berlinale. His second film White Sun, premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival to rave reviews and has screened throughout the world (Toronto, Busan, Locarno, Rotterdam), winning awards at Venice, Singapore, and Palm Spring film festivals. The film was Nepal's official selection for the 90th Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. The New York Times recently described Rauniyar as one of "The 9 New Directors You Need to Watch." Rauniyar is developing his third feature, 2019's TFL World Co-Pro Award winner, The sky Is Mine (Berlinale TPM 2020). His producer /co-producer credit includes Johan Carlsen's Death on the Street (IFF Rotterdam 2021) and forthcoming films of David Barker's Wiring Utopia (TFI Sloan Fund award 2019), Anil Baral's The Palace (Busan Co-pro and Asian Cinema Fund 2018), and Subina Shrestha's Devi (Cannes Doc 2021). He is an alumnus of the Toronto and Berlinale Talent Campuses as well as the Cannes Cinéfondation program. He has served as a jury member at Locarno and Sydney Film Festivals and Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

FILMOGRAPHIE