Lalit Bhusal (Devanagari: ललित भुषाल; born 21 January 1975) is a British filmmaker known for his multiple Award-Winning Feature Film "Crushed Wings".
Early life
Lalit Bhusal was raised in
India and then in Nepal, his father was in the Indian Army and his mother worked as a social worker. Bhusal has been residential in the
United Kingdom since 2000 and currently his company is base in United Kingdom and Netherlands.
Career
Bhusal worked for various film Asian and English film projects since 2001 and he started his film making career in 2010 with the short film "Trash or Treasure" which was released in the same year.
He is the
director and
producer
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Occupations
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*A stakeholder of economic production
*Film producer, supervises the making of films
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of the award-winning short film "Leeches" which received the
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in the international film festival in
Jakarta
Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...
.
The film highlights the unnoticed illegal
human trafficking
Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extrac ...
for sex trade in the UK. In an interview published in the
Ekantipur he explains what triggered him to start writing a screenplay for the film. Bhusal feels that human trafficking and forced sexual slavery is a serious
crime and a
violation of
human rights and hopes that the film will contribute in educating on human trafficking resulting a psychological change in the human traffickers."
Bhusal's Feature Film ''Crushed Wings'' has won more than 40 Award from International Film Festivals, Crushed Wings and is expected to be released on OTT platform in 2022.
2021 - Crushed Wings: Drama (ENG) about
female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found ...
,
forced marriages and
domestic violence
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within the
Asian
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society.
Awards
* 2021 - More than 40 Awards and nomination from International Film Festival for film Crushed Wings.
*2015 - Award of Merit in the International Film Festival in
Jakarta
Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...
.
Upcoming projects
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Filmography
References
External links
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1975 births
Living people