Utpal Jha
Kathmandu, Nepal
977-9869043122
Work Experience
Films/Digital Experience
Title Year Length Category Credit
Afbah(Rumor) 2012 22:55 Narrative Assistant Director
Wake Up 2011 8:15 Experimental Director/Concept/Screenplay
New Recruits 2011 40:50:00 Narrative Second Director
The Silence Of Rickshaw 2011 33:55:00 Narrative Continuity Director
No Suicide I Do 2012 37:10:00 Narrative Production Manager
TVC for CWIN(Child Workers In Nepal) 2011 30 seconds Commercial Director/Concept/Screenplay
Music Video- Din Yo Mero 2011 5:22 Music Video Vocalist/Actor
Music Video- Prayas 2012 4:10 Music Video Director/Vocalist/Actor
Short film for MOFILMS(for competition) 2011 30 seconds Commercial Director/Concept/Screenplay
Paint Me RED(college project) 2013 05:34 Experimental Director/Concept/Screenplay
Sangor 2013 38:39 Narrative Actor(Lead)
The Boatman 2013 03:31 Mise-en-scene Director/Concept/Screenplay
Angels In America: Millennium Approaches, Scene 9 2014 07:09 Dialogue Exercise Director/Screenplay
Love? Lust? Life? 2015 21:36 Experimental Noir/Surreal Director/Actor/Concept/Screenplay/
Poems
P.S. Zindagi 2016 Web Series Actor/Director/Screenplay
Theater Experience
Actor/Dancer in Nepali adaptation of “Purgatory” (2011) in Gurukul Theater
Actor (various characters) in One World Theater’s “Telling A Tale” (2013-2014)
Actor (Sorin’s character) in One World Theater’s “The Seagull” (2014)
Actor (Egungun) & Stage Manager in One World Theater’s “In the Red and Brown Water” (2014)
Actor (Jedadiah Schultz, Matt Mickelson, Andy Paris) in One World Theater’s production “The Laramie Project” (2015)
Actor/Narrator/Poet in Sushila Arts Academy’s Broadway Show “Rusan’s Amazing Adventures” (Nepal’s First Broadway Show, 2016)
Actor in One World Theatre’s “Arjuna’s Dilemma” (Nepal’s First Fusion Opera, 2016)
Actor (Demetrius) in The New Shakespeare Wallah’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (2016)
Actor in One World Theatre’s “Anna In the Tropics” (2017); performed in the Theatre Festival of NSD (National School of Drama) in Delhi and Pune
Actor (Pepper White) in One World Theatre and Highly High Entertainment’s “Goldenboy” (2017)
Actor (martyr Durganand Jha) in the Purnendu Production’s “Kashidevi” (2018)
Actor (multiple characters) in Solis Performing Arts’ “Café de Flore” (February 2018)
Actor (Tuzenbach) in the adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” by One World Theatre (March 2018)
Honors/Awards
• Short Film “Wake Up” presented with the Outstanding Award in the competition organized by Yatra Foundation and Water Aid (2011)
• Short Film “Wake Up” nominated as Nepal’s official entry in the Short Film/Documentary category into the SAARC Film Festival, 2013
• Received NRs. 35,000 annually for three successive terms from Film Development Board, Nepal as Partial Scholarship for studies
• Granted Partial Scholarship from Oscar International College (College of Film Studies) for being College/University topper in Film Studies
• Assistant directed in Best Film Award winning short film “New Recruits” in the competition organized by Nepal Army (2011)
• Full Scholarship granted by Sushila Arts Academy in Acting (2014)
• Short Film “Love? Lust? Life?” accepted in the Short Film Corner of Cannes Film Festival (2015), awarded Best Short Film Award at SAARC Film Festival (2015) and The Best Foreign Film in The 4th Annual International Students' Cinema and TV Festival (2017) and going to many other International Film Festivals.
• University topper/Gold Medalist- Humanities (Bachelors of Film Studies; Specialization: Film Direction & Screen-Writing) in the university (T.U.) in the entire Humanities Department (Nepal’s First Film-making student in the history to do so)
• Nepal’s First Web Series “P.S Zindagi” awarded with the “Outstanding Excellence In Direction and Ensemble Cast” award in the WRPN Global Webisode Competition – WGWC (Summer 2016) and officially selected in the Direct Monthly Online Film Festival (August 2106), the IndieWise Festival (September 11, 2016), Marseille Web Fest (2016), Seoul Web Fest (June 1, 2017) and nominated for Best Ensemble Performance (Comedy) in the Rio Web Fest 2016.
. “Vismrit” declared the winner in nomination “Best Experimental” in the International Festival Euro Kino (Prague 2018).
Skills
• Director, Poet, Lyricist, Screen Writer, Actor, Visual Artist, Vocalist (released debut album “Assasined” in Nepali, 2012)
• Trained in Corporeal Mime by Oliver Pollak
• Trained in Playback Theatre by Karina Bettina Gisler and Joke Rood
Language Proficiency
Fluent in Nepali, English, Maithili, Hindi
Education
Tribhuwan University, Oscar International College, Kathmandu, Nepal,
Bachelors of Film Studies (2011-2014)
Other Experience
Co-producer of a feature length movie “Vismrit”
Did English subtitles for acclaimed Nepali feature length movie “Saanghuro”
Did English and Nepali voiceovers for Buddha Robotic Museum based in Pokhara
Worked as voice artist for several radio plays and did Nepali dubbing for a character in the critically acclaimed movie “Sold”
Worked at his own filming service company named “Kathmandu Films (KTM Filmms)”, M.D@ Kathmandu Films, based in Kathmandu, Nepal
Worked as Acting Managing Director (One World Theater)
Worked as Director (Acquisitions, Copyrights, International Affairs) at Mountain River Films, Kathmandu, Nepal
Researcher/Fixer/Investigator with Arm Investigations (U.S.A) in various projects related to Animal Abuse and their prohibition
Post Production services in GIZ’s documentary related to Various Industrial Sectors of Nepal.
Line Production services for various productions from world across (American, German, British, Dutch, French etc) shot in Nepal
Worked as the Audio-Visual Director for the Gharana Music Festival held in Kathmandu, Nepal (2016)
Worked as Language Facilitator/Interpreter in Bloomberg Foundation’s SAARC level Anti-Tobacco workshop held in Kathmandu, Nepal (April, 2017)
Worked as a visual artist and had his work displayed in the second edition of Bikalpa Art Center’s five-day Art Installation (September, 2017)
