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"blending activism and filmmaking"
anand
patwardhan

 

 

 

 


Don't Pass Me By

Original Language:
ENGLISH, NEPALI, HINDI

Direction:
Sarah Kapoor
Kristi Vuorinen
Christina Lamey

1999. 40 min. Nepal.

 

Don't Pass Me By is a story about an odd intersection of lives in the tourist town of Pokhara, Nepal. Locals and tourists have been crossing paths there since the 60s, but don't often move out of the "local serving tourist" context. Three young filmmakers from Canada figured there was more to each side. The cast: Sarah is someone you'd get along with. She's always been an observer... she's had to be. There's Surya, the bitter Nepalese restaurant owner who is sick of being seen by tourists as a second-class citizen in his own country. And Jon, a good-looking raver from Los Angeles who wears a headband with two bouncing star antennae. Then there's young driver Rudra, lost somewhere between boyhood and manhood, trying to move up the taxi cab totem pole. Mix all these people together under the light of a full moon at a guest house called Don't Pass Me By and you get some crazy scenes.

 

About the Director ...

Sarah Kapoor graduated in 1997 from Carleton University's School of Journalism. She has worked for Global Television and as a newspaper reporter and editor. Sarah has co-produced and directed documentaries including Hollywood's Biggest Backlot: Canadians in Hollywood North (1997) and My Mother's Life (1999). She is currently working at the CBC in Toronto.

Christina Lamey is a graduate of Carleton University's School of Journalism. She has directed, co-produced and filmed three documentaries, including Hollywood's Biggest Backlot: Canadians in Hollywood North (1997) and My Mother's Life (1999). She is president of Forerunner Filmworks and is currently working in Nova Scotia on the CBC series "Pit Pony".

Kristi Vuorinen has a formal education in the fine arts. She began her career as an independent filmmaker with her 1997 documentary Into the Woods: A Treeplanter's Story. Kristi has been part of documentary crews in India, Panama and Eritrea. She is currently co-producing and directing a documentary about Tibetan exiles in northern India entitled Silent Revolution. She is based in Vancouver.



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