Fantastic news to hear that Ladek Mountain Film Festival have awarded MIRA with the Best Film in Mountain Sport 2018. From Richard, Lizzy, Mira, Subina, Niraj, Shashank, Anusha, myself & many more who were involved in this special film project, we are honoured and grateful. Ladek Jury: “The Jury decided […]
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2018 Blueprint
I am excited about 2018 as it will be the first year that I will be able to devote myself wholly to photography & filming as I plan to submit my completed PhD thesis in early 2018. When I decided to turn this photography dream into reality and leave my […]
Read MoreChina Daily Newspaper Article on Mira Film
While attending the BANFF film festival launch in Beijing at the end of May 2017, I did a round of media interviews including this one that was published in the China Daily 《中国日报》 newspaper that is the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in China (over 200,000 copies per issue). Although […]
Read MoreMIRA – Nepali version of full film is now available online
The Nepali version of MIRA has been showing across Nepal through the mobile cinema screenings that have been funded by the Vimeo sales of the film that is available in English, French & Chinese. We have now made the full Nepali film available for viewing on Youtube. Thank you to […]
Read More‘Hiking Reborn’ Shooting the Cover for Action Asia Magazine & The North Face
I have shot a number of assignments for The North Face in Hong Kong and China & so when they asked me to be involved in their latest advertising campaign for their latest products that are geared towards the fast-packing/hiking community then I jumped at it. This assignment culminated in […]
Read MoreMIRA wins Grand Prize at Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival 2017
February 19th 2017 What an honour. This evening in Vancouver, MIRA was awarded the Grand Prize at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. Thank you to everyone who believed in the value of this film before we had anything to show for this. It was 2 years ago today that I was packing […]
Read MoreMIRA wins Jury Award at DMFF 2017
Chuffed to the extent that I start pulling funny faces with the award of the Jury Prize for MIRA at the Dutch Mountain Film Festival 2017 head on February 10th 2017 in Kerkrade, Holland. Jury Report: Filmed in traditional documentary style, a whole raft of present-day themes are dealt with, […]
Read MoreNat Geo Commission & Mira Award
A milestone & huge honour for me was when I was contacted by National Geographic & asked to produce a short video story based on the film MIRA that I made. Suffice to say that I was honoured by such a request & sums up the incredible adventure that this […]
Read MoreNepal New Year Adventures
Images from 10 days of adventure over the New Year holidays with Mira & my family in Nepal with mobile cinema screenings of ‘MIRA’ in Balthali, Bhojpur & in Mira’s home village in the Bhojpur mountains. Images by my daughter Anya & myself. All shot on a Sony A7rii
Read MoreFinding Soni Tamang – Chance, opportunity & unlocking talent.
You might recall the story I shared of a young girl I met while on assignment in the mountains of Nepal last month. If not then you can scroll down a few paragraphs for the full story that I wrote or click here. Her name is Soni Tamang & I […]
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