Dawa Tshering Lepcha
film director
Dawa Tshering Lepcha is a film director from Lingdong Dzongu. He followed his passion and got a post graduate diploma in Film Direction from the National Institute of Film & Fine Arts (Kolkata)N and a refresher course at the University of Manchester (UK). He started directing the Lepcha music video ‘Someray’ and then trained and worked as an ethnographic film-maker at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology. His documentary ‘Tingvong. A Lepcha Village’ got the best film prize at the firs North East Documentary Festival and ‘Ritual Journey’ was awarded Commendation at the International Festival of Ethnographic Films in London. Most of his documentaries have been screened at festivals in Europe. Dhokbu was his first feature film as won the best film award at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (2018) and at the Prag North East Cine Awards (2018). Dawa was also nominated as best director at both festivals. The film also made the semi finalist list at the Sidney Indie Film Festival.