Salpa Films, founded by Rajan Kathet in 2017, is a Nepal-based production company that produces fiction and documentary films with a focus on human stories, seeking to showcase the depth and complexity of the human experience. The company’s portfolio includes the “Bare Trees In The Mist,” which it Executive Produced. The film premiered at prestigious film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Tampere FF, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, HKIFF, among a dozen others. 

 

Salpa Films recently finished its first feature documentary “No Winter Holidays,” a co-production between Nepal, South Korea, and Romania. The project has received support from the DMZ Docs Industry Fund, won the HAF/WIP Documentary Award, and was a finalist for the Whickers Film & TV Funding Award. Salpa Films firmly upholds the values of collaborative filmmaking, and as such, actively collaborates with like-minded filmmakers from around the world. Salpa Films is also working with other international filmmakers on projects such as the feature documentary “After The Snowmelt” by Yi-Shan Lo (Taiwan) and the TV documentary “In the Land of Machines” by Heo Chul-nyung (South Korea), both of which are are still in production.