Setupin2008, Docskool is an independent film campaign innovating ways to build attention for Nepali and South Asian filmmakers. We forge peer - peer partnerships amongst artists, people and social campaigns to enable historically suppressed narratives be heard, making cinema practice bias free and open to all. Our initiatives push boundaries of cinema’s potential as we design multidisciplinary approaches... Our focus is on risk mitigation for filmmakers, dignified creative participation for all and platforms for grassroots level creative practice.
Docskool hosts artist residencies, project labs and film festivals with long-term skill fellowships for young people. These are hosted from our residency campus in Dhulikhel and the micro cinema (Airavat Picture House) in Kathmandu. Docskool is a non-profit, NGO.
Designed to generate opportunities and visibility to under represented artists, companionship includes advocacy, residencies and long-term accompaniment with filmmakers during urgent situations. The Clinik. Kathmandu script lab, Documentary Residency, Women in cinema partnership and the QUEER film festival Kathmandu all work as companionship efforts for filmmakers practicing in the fringe.
One of film/ video’s true qualities lie in its ability to challenge polarized narratives on often politically disadvantaged communities. Docskool works with grassroot initiatives and social campaigns to encourage deeper integration of video in knowledge re- generation and reshaping of narratives. Our current partners include the LGBTQIA+ campaign, community radios, Environmental defenders and the feminist movement.
Docskool caters to wider accessibility of documentary cinema for both audiences and creators. We provide documentary trainings to aspiring filmmakers, documentary labs for documentary development held annually amongst south Asian filmmakers. Our micro cinema caters to make documentary films visible in Nepal.
The filmmakers’ role in creating a new social order is paramount, unlike no other. With more than 95% of all media today consumed as video– film challenges, connects, builds emotions, objectifies, creates identities, shapes opinions – the world listens to what filmmakers have to say. Engaging with filmmakers matters.
And yet filmmakers are amongst the most mis represented culture workers. Creative choices of filmmakers are questioned, new forms of silencing constantly used to shut filmmakers, affecting not just their voice but how society is seen. In Nepal and South Asia, filmmakers receive compensatory support to create new work, the scope of creating and showcasing are further narrow for non-confirmative cinema. We believe en-suring filmmakers freedom over creative expression ensures agency remains in the hands of the people. New labs, trainings enable filmmakers to connect with issues that matter such as representation of women, queer people and politically marginalised communities.
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