User:RaviBaralNepal

Ravi Baral (born 1964 in Nepal) is an activist filmmaker and human rights crusader. He is writer, director, producer and former television anchor. He started his career in Nepal TV where he wrote and directed short films and documentaries. There, he presented current affairs programs like Spot Light and Music Magazine, and with that, became the first VJ in South Asia. In 1993, he founded Media Alert and Relief Foundation a non-profit organization (www.medalfoundation.org) that alerts the grassroots public on social issues through audio visual means. As an activist filmmaker, he has produced and directed three award winning feature films, most notably, Chameli (1999-2000) an anti- girl trafficking film. He has also written, directed and produced several short films and more than three dozen documentaries. The Day My God Died, another documentary on child sex trade that he co-produced was nominated to the EMMYs in 2005. As an activist filmmaker, he has advocated girl child education, environment protection, gender equality, social justice, peace, democracy and so on through his films. He is currently working on a screenplay against gender based violence to be made into a feature film in 2020.