2015

DRAWING THE TIGER

ABOUT

A family in Nepal living on less than a dollar a day wins the globalization jackpot: a charity scholarship for their daughter to go to school in the capital city. She promises to return, to free her family from poverty. But she does not come back. DRAWING THE TIGER is an intimate portrait of the price one family pays for their golden opportunity.

Program Feature
Runtime 1:36
Country United States
Language Nepali, English

Amy owns Nonfiction Media, a production company based in Seattle where she produces, shoots and edits films telling the stories of organizations around the globe. Since 2008, Amy has been documenting the lives of one family in Nepal, The Darnals. The first in the series, Drawing the Tiger, was a granted project of the Sundance Institute and Fork Films. She and her team pitched the film as part of the Points North Fellowship. Drawing the Tiger premiered at Hot Docs in April 2015, and received the Documentary Feature Award from CAAM Fest, the Jury Award for Best Documentary at the Asiatica Film Festival, and the UNICEF award at Film South Asia. The sequel, The Eldest Son, premiered at the Kathmandu Mountain Film Festival in 2017. The third film, Literate, shot by the Darnal teenagers, was completed in 2020. The next film is being directed and shot by the whole family in Nepal, while Amy produces and edits in the states. She is a founding member of the Seattle Documentary Association.

CREDITS

Director
Amy Benson
Ramyata Limbu
Producer
Amy Benson
Scott Squire
Kristin Ougendal
Editor
Fiona Otway

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