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Bishal Roka Magar, Bishal Magar is a trainer in a pre-Gurkha training center. In 2016 he had the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of cinema through a short term filmmaking course organized in Kathmandu. He participated in and holds a diploma of Dov Simons’s ‘Cinema Director and Film Production’ program 2017. He has written and directed a few short films. “Lahureni” is his first documentary short. He was born in 1992 and raised in the indigenous Magar community who live in the western hills of Nepal. His ancestral home is in a remote mountain village in Rolpa which has never seen a cinema hall. The decade-long Maoist insurgency in Nepal originated in this region, impacting the social and political lives of thousands. Bishal believes that there are many stories here which have yet to be told. He wants to share these stories with the rest of Nepal and the world through the medium of cinema.Gurkha Girl, is his first Documentary film which won the Best national documentary at 5th Nepal International Film Festival and Best debut film at Film SouthAsia.