THE Bonsai II

Director DIPA BASNET -
Born in the city of flat land (Terai) in southern Nepal, Mrs. Basnet has always been an outstanding and creative student since childhood. Realizing her core interest at an early age she pursued BFS (Graduation on Film Studies) in 2011and Master’s degree in Culture Studies in 2016 from Tribhuvan University. At the age of 23, she had already started her career as a theatre artist and started exploring various aspects in this field which paid off when her debut directed movie “Antaral” won the national award for her as Best Director and grab other nepali awards as well - Best Debut Director establishing her as a prominent Film Maker (Director) of Nepal. “Antaral” was also awarded as Best Nepali Film Jury Award in 2013. Her films Antaral and Vandho were screened in Dhaka International Film Festival (2013) and Toronto Nepali Film Festival (2011) respectively. She has produced various TV programs like Comedy Hostel, Selfy Talk with Talking Tom and Chitrapat while working as Program Director in different media houses like Jibansathi Films and AD Crew Media.
Apart from the mainstream movie and media house, adding up to her prominence, she had also directed many other films, documentaries, dramas that talk about different issues like climate change, democracy and other social issues. She worked as Reporter/ Video editor in NEFEJ (Nepal Forum of Environment Journalist) and also affiliated to various foundations such as Film Directors Guild of Nepal, Laxmi Pratisthan Nepal and Together for Human and Environment in Nepal (THE-Nepal) as an Executive Member.

Director ANIL RIMAL -

Mr. Rimal is from Nepal - A home to Himalayas & Terai Plane in South Asia and currently residing in England, UK. Born and grew up with different social experience and obstacles since very young age, he eventually became a Media Practitioner and Storyteller who loves to reflect society through film and television. Writing books and producing educational materials has been his all-time interest. He always inclined himself toward the activity that involves positive impact on the society. Beside these he also finds some of his time to support and mentor young people to share his experience and learnings. He is also a researcher, concept creator, festival producer and promoter of this international multi-award-winning film THE-Bonsai. He wants to introduce himself as Filmmaker as well as Ability Campaigner.
He is a social motivator who has traveled to different communities and shared their voice to the world. Till now he has managed, coordinated and represented media and youth campaigns in different events in UK, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Thailand, Germany, South Africa and Bangladesh. He has also organized the sports and cultural events, supporting different eco & film clubs in school, teaching media literacy and digital security as well as other subject in school and colleges of remote village in Nepal and India since 2002.
With an immense enthusiasm in communicating the societal challenges and issues, Mr. Rimal selected to work off track the mainstream media and established his name as a campaign-oriented communicator in Nepal. In line with pursuing his dream of being a social advocate, after getting master's degree in media technology in Nepal, he is now pursing LLB (bachelor's in law) to sharpen his skills in policies and legislations for better advocacy and influencing. He also served UNU (United Nation University) in Bonn, Germany in e-learning and knowledge management unit for Environment and Human Security Division. His passion for human security issues lead him to start his media career as Program Producer and directed various street dramas. With more motivation he continued his work on radio, print and television to develop programs on social issues. He is among one of the founder of Together for Human and Environment in Nepal that works for human security related issues.