Pawo Choyning Dorji, Oscar-nominated director for “Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom” joins UTA

ExclusiveUTA has hired director Pavo Choining Dorji, who this year awarded Bhutan its first Oscar nomination for an international feature film. Lunana: Yaki in classFor representation.

Dorje’s artistic directorial debut is a drama about a young teacher who dreams of emigrating to Australia but is assigned to a school in the most remote village of northern Bhutan, which has neither water nor electricity. The high altitude, the lack of services and the increasingly colder climate, with the arrival of winter, make you want to leave as soon as it arrives. But the local kids start insulting Charm to get her to stay. Dorji wrote and photographed what was Bhutanese’s first Oscar-winning work in decades, also with producers Stephen Xiang, Stephen Lai and Honglin Gia. lunana It premiered at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival and won numerous awards at festivals around the world, including two Audience Awards at the Palm Springs Film Festival, before being nominated for an Academy Award. Samuel Goldwyn Films was its North American distributor.

Dorje, who is also a photographer, is currently directing and producing her second film. four days to the full moon, of which he wrote the screenplay. This film is seen by an American who goes to Bhutan in search of a treasure, he meets a young Bert, who is walking in the quiet mountains, who is instructed by a teacher to fix everything.

Dorje first discovered cinema in 2012, when she worked as an assistant to Gienze Norbu on her feature film. Wand: Blessing. He was also the producer of Norbu’s Hema Hema: Sing a song while I waitPremiere at the Locarno Film Festival in 2016.