Pema Tshering

Biography

I have been a producer at Dakinny for 8 years. I also co-founded and co-organized the only (short) film festival in Bhutan: Beskop Tshechu. After producing two shorts that circulated in international festivals, Jamyang and the world of Bodhisattvas will be my first feature production and overall the second animated feature from Bhutan. I am looking to improve my skills as creative producer and to gain new contacts to strengthen the small and new film community in Bhutan. I feel it is essential that our works connect with both domestic and international audiences and markets, to increase the financial viability of Bhutanese cinema and to take local voices across borders.

Production Company

Dakinny Productions is a Bhutan-based production company founded by one of the first female filmmakers in the country, Dechen Roder. Licensed in 2009, it produces fiction films and documentaries, short films and other audio visual content. Dakinny recently produced Honeygiver Among the Dogs by Dechen Roder, which premiered at Busan IFF and later screened in Berlinale Panorama, Fribourg IFF, Hong Kong IFF, Vancouver IFF among others. Dakinny Productions continually aims to produce films which are targeted for both domestic and international audiences and markets.

Selected Filmography

Honeygiver Among the Dogs by Dechen Roder (Fiction 132’, 2016)
Realm of the Gods by Pema Tshering (Fiction, 19’, 2011)
Sound of Time by Pema Tshering (Fiction, 4’, 2010)

Line up

Jamyang and the world of Bodhisattvas by Pema Tshering & Chand Bhattarai (Animation, 75’, 2019)
I, the Song by Dechen Roder (Fiction, 100’, 2020)

Contact Details

tintindorjee@gmail.com
+97 517 85 16 65