Mallika Aryal
Mallika Aryal
Mallika grew up in Kathmandu, Nepal, went to high school in India and moved to the US to attend Mount Holyoke College where she studied International Relations with a focus on Environment. During her senior year, Aryal moved to Sri Lanka to study the country’s dry zones. After graduation, she moved back to Nepal where she worked as a print journalist and columnist for English-language paper Nepali Times. As a reporter she covered the ‘People’s War’, the end of monarchy, and writing of the new constitution of the country. She regularly contributes to IPS (www.ipsnews.net) and Himal Southasian magazine (www.himalmag.com). Since 2006, Aryal has been the co-director of the South Asian documentary film festival Film South Asia. She has traveled in Nepal and South Asia with the films from the festival, opening in some of the most difficult and politically charged places of the region. She believes in making documentaries accessible and has worked with FSA to make that possible. As a filmmaker, she wants to over the transition in Nepal as the country moves to becoming a federal republic, deals with the wounds of the decade-long war and writes a new constitution.
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