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Belmaya Nepali
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I Am Belmaya (12A)
Directed by Sue Carpenter and Belmaya Nepali
FROM battered wife to award-winning film-maker, Belmaya Nepali’s story is an awe-inspiring tale of female empowerment gained through the transformative power of cinema and film-making. Co-writer-director Sue Carpenter met Belmaya in Pokhara, Nepal, in 2006 when the latter was 14 years old and taught her photography.
It wasn’t until 2014, when Belmaya was 21 with a baby daughter and married to an abusive husband, that they met each other again — Carpenter deciding to follow Belmaya’s journey to becoming a documentary-maker over five years.
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