The Sky is Mine

The Sky is Mine

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TFI Pond5 Program 2019 Fall

Logline

Pooja breaks centuries-old barriers to become first female Superintendent, but nothing has prepared her for her first case:  two boys are kidnapped with no clues and only 24 hours to save in a town in midst of racial unrest.

The Sky is Mine

Deepak Rauniyar

Director, Co-Writer, Producer

Deepak Rauniyar is a director, screenwriter, and producer. A former critic, he became the first Nepali director to compete at a major international film festival when his debut Highway premiered at the 2012 Berlinale. His second film White Sun, premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival to rave reviews and has screened throughout the world (Toronto, Busan, Locarno, Rotterdam), winning awards at Venice, Singapore, and Palm Spring film festivals. The film was Nepal’s official selection for the 90th Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. The New York Times recently described Rauniyar as one of “The 9 New Directors You Need to Watch." He is an alumnus of the Toronto and Berlinale Talent Campuses as well as the Cannes Cinéfondation program and has served a member of the jury at Locarno and Sydney Film Festivals, and Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

The Sky is Mine

Asha Magrati

Co-Writer, Producer, Actor

Asha Magrati is a screenwriter, producer, and actor. A Berlinale Talents and School of Playback Theater alumnus, Asha’s recent credits include the Venice Film Festival Interfilm award winner White Sun (2016) and Highway (Berlin Film Festival 2012). The daughter of an ex-British Gurkha, Magrati grew up inside an army camp where every weekend the various movie was screened. She fell in love with the film and acting quite early in her childhood. Her first role was in a theater play when she was only thirteen, and she has since acted in numerous plays, TV shows and films that have screened internationally. Magrati co-founded Aadi Production with filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar in 2008, the company produced Highway and White Sun, and currently developing four features including two by filmmaker Rauniyar, and Asian Cinema Fund winner Anil Baral’s The Palace (2018 Busan co-production market selects) and Kesang Tseten’s The Law. 

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David Barker

Co-Writer

David Barker co-wrote and edited the upcoming Netflix release THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY by Petra Costa, about the rise and fall of popular democracy in Brazil, and is currently editing SHIRLEY, directed by Josephine Decker (MADELINE'S MADELINE) from a screenplay by Sarah Gubbins (I LOVE DICK) starring Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg. He co-wrote and edited WHITE SUN, directed by Deepak Rauniyar, which premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, screened at New Directors New Films, and was Nepal’s entry to the Academy Awards. Other credits include: editor of THE REAGAN SHOW, directed by Pacho Velez and Sierra Pettengill (Tribeca and Locarno Film Festivals), nominated for the Cinema Eye Honors’ Outstanding Achievement in Editing; co-writer/editor of THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY by Josephine Decker, named one of the ‘10 Best Films of 2014’ by The New Yorker. His most recent film as director, DAYLIGHT (2009), was the ‘Critic’s Pick’ in both The New York Times and The New York Post on its release; and an earlier film, AFRAID OF EVERYTHING, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was called “a miracle of independent film” by The New York Post on its release. 

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Jeremy Chua

Producer

Jeremy Chua is a Singaporean film producer and screenwriter based between Singapore and Paris. He started out as a film exhibition coordinator at independent art space the Substation; as well as Cinémathèque at the National Museum of Singapore where he worked on the Edward Yang and Akira Kurosawa retrospectives. From 2011, he worked in the sales and distribution of experimental short films and video art at Lowave Paris. Since 2014, he founded Potocol, a film company focused on development and co-production of independent Asian films. He wrote and co-produced his first film, A Yellow Bird by K. Rajagopal, which premiered at 55th Cannes Critics’ Week and is currently available on Netflix. It was a project developed with EAVE Ties That Bind. He subsequently collaborated with fellow EAVE alumnus Bianca Balbuena on Brotherhood by Pepe Diokno (Karlovy Vary IFF 2016) and A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery by Lav Diaz (Alfred Bauer Silver Bear, Berlinale 2016). In 2018, he released his forth coproduction A Family Tour by Ying Liang (Opening Film, International Competition Locarno IFF 2018). He is currently developing projects by Deepak Rauniyar, Raya Martin, Bradley Liew, Nicole Midori Woodford, Jow Zhi Wei and Abdullah Mohammad Saad.